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Modern Curved Steel Sign Welcomes Visitors to Premera Campus

Modern Curved Steel Sign Welcomes Visitors to Premera Campus

Albina rolled 56 lengths of 24-foot-long Tube Steel 6” X 3” X .190” WALL 6063-T52 ALUM the Hard Way to a 74’-1 5/16” inside radius for the Premera Campus Entry. Premera, a family of health plans includes Premera Blue Cross, LifeWise Health Plan and others, is based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. ...

"Migrations" by Olivia Guethling: A Stunning Symbol of Flight and Transformation

"Migrations" by Olivia Guethling: A Stunning Symbol of Flight and Transformation

Art has the power to inspire, transform, and connect us to the world around us. Migrations, an awe-inspiring installation by artist Olivia Guethling at GuildWorks, embodies these qualities with breathtaking elegance. This large-scale sculpture, depicting a migratory bird in motion, stands as a testa...

Steel a Major Player in Seismic Upgrades for the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City

Steel a Major Player in Seismic Upgrades for the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City

Albina provided 60,000# of bent steel for the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple Renovations over the last few years in efforts to help provide a foundation that will withstand the forces of nature into the Millennium.

40 pieces of TS 12” X 4” X .500” WALL A500 GR C bent the easy way to AESS quality standa...

Curved Steel Canopy at Arsenal on the Charles Life Science Campus

Curved Steel Canopy at Arsenal on the Charles Life Science Campus

SGA’s, Arsenal on the Charles, is a new life science campus in Watertown, Massachusetts with three new research and laboratory facilities on the bank of the Charles River. SGA specializes in highly sustainable life science buildings and campuses. In addition to the 4-story office and research lab, t...

First Contemporary Building is a Centerpiece to Portsmouth New Hampshire's Historic District

Albina bent 130,000#, 292 pieces, of various structural steel for the Brick Market, a mixed-use contemporary building in Portsmouth's historic district. Albina supplied various bent pieces of round tubing, wide flange, square and rectangular tubing, channel and angle for the building which features ...

Family Owned, Local Bender Servicing the Entire Nation One Bend at a Time

Family Owned, Local Bender Servicing the Entire Nation One Bend at a Time

Albina Co., Inc. has you covered from coast to coast! We are a family owned, local business servicing the entire nation one bend at a time! We are constantly shipping out jobs to middle America and the East Coast. Worried about freight from our shop to yours? With the amount of jobs we are doing acr...

Spectacular Spiral Staircase Provides Gateway to Thrilling Waterslides at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel

Spectacular Spiral Staircase Provides Gateway to Thrilling Waterslides at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel

We had the pleasure of staying at The Arizona Biltmore (A Waldorf Astoria Resort) recently and got to experience the new Paradise Waterslides firsthand. Equally as impressive as the slides themselves is the spiral staircase used to acend to the top of the slides. Materials Albina bent for this proje...

Curved Feather-Inspired Roof at Montana State University Campus

Curved Feather-Inspired Roof at Montana State University Campus

Albina recently rolled various material for the eagle feather-inspired roof at the American Indian Hall at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. ThinkOne Construction Management designed a barrel-vaulted, curved, standing beam roof in the shape and color of an eagle feather. Metal roofing wa...

US Air Force Academy Visitors Center Set to Open in Early 2024

US Air Force Academy Visitors Center Set to Open in Early 2024

Albina recently rolled 36 pieces of Tube Steel 6” X 6” X .375” WALL A500 GR C to AESS standards at radii ranging from 3’-9” – 24’-4” for the United States Air Force Academy Visitors Center. The visitors center is expected to open early 2024 and the 32,000 square-foot facility will include storytelli...

How Much Stress Is Put on the Material When You Bend It?

How Much Stress Is Put on the Material When You Bend It?

Common questions we receive from customers have to do with the stresses put on materials during the rolling, curving, forming, and bending processes. 

  1. What stresses are put on the materials during the curving process?
  2. What is the stress, strain on the steel being bent or curved?
  3. Is the material...

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