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Curved Steel Pipe Used for Airplane Landing Gear

Albina Co., Inc. recently completed bending 27 pieces of 1¼" OD X .156" WALL 4130 bent on a 4” radius. We were able to hold the threaded tangent dimension during the bending process. The curved steel pipe will be used for "nose landing gear" on small planes. curved steel pipe for nose landing gear for small planes ...
Curved Tube Steel for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Berkeley

Curved Tube Steel for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Berkeley

The downtown BART Berkeley (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station is conveniently located close to the University of California campus and to many shops, restaurants, theaters and other attractions, and has valet bike parking. Albina has been involved in several BART projects over the years and this is ju...

Curved Steel Spiral Staircase for the New American Airlines Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas

Curved Steel Spiral Staircase for the New American Airlines Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas

Albina recently used our induction heating process to spiral bend Tube Steel 16" X 16" X .625" WALL A500 GR B bent down to a an 18 foot radius for the new American Airlines headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. The 1.7 million-square-foot complex, dubbed the “Trinity complex,” consists of constructing ...

Stainless Steel Pipe Bending of Small Parts for Manufacturing Application

Stainless Steel Pipe Bending of Small Parts for Manufacturing Application

We recently completed a very difficult job in which we bent 3" OD X .065" WALL T304 Stainless Steel POLISHED, 2½" OD X .065" WALL T304 Stainless Steel POLISHED, and 1/2" OD X .065" WALL T304 Stainless Steel Polished for a manufacturing customer. The really tight bends in the picture below are elbows...

Curved Pipe for Oak Harbor Wind Sculpture in Bellingham, Washington

We partnered with Architectural Elements, a specialty metals fabrication shop in Bellingham, Washington to create this wind sculpture for the city of Oak Harbor. Albina bent 3½" SCH40 A53B ERW WHEELED- 10 lengths x 42 feet for the project. The sculpture was designed by Architectural Elements design ...

Curved Steel parts for Water Jet Equipment

Albina Co., Inc. recently bent 20 pieces of 3/8" OD X .125" WALL T304 S/S TBE that will be used on some water jet equipment. We coiled the material to a 8” diameter and bent the terminals on a 1½” center-line radius. We produce consistent, accurate and repeatable rolled metal parts and components fo...
Curved Steel for the Philadelphia Museum of Art Skylights Project

Curved Steel for the Philadelphia Museum of Art Skylights Project

We currently have a job in progress that involves bending tube steel and doing some very complex end coping on the material for some custom skylights at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The coped ends are VERY complex. Every machine shop we contacted to cope these ends and slot these ends all decline...

Curved Steel for University of Phoenix Stadium Where Taylor Swift Opened Her Reputation Tour!

Last night was Taylor Swift's opening night for her "Reputation Tour" at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona! Albina Co., Inc. bent 270,000 pounds of steel for the University of Phoenix Stadium. 31 lens x 20 ft: 1½" X 1½" X 3/16" ANGLE A36 Rolled all leg out. Each part had 2 radii...

Curved Steel for the Fort Worth Multi-Purpose Arena in Fort Worth, Texas

We just finished a project for a new customer out of Texas. Albina Co., Inc. provided 40,000# of bent steel for the Fort Worth Multi-Purpose Arena project in Fort Worth, Texas which broke ground on April 18th. Albina provided 28 pieces of spiral bent Tube Steel 8" X 4" X .500" WALL A500 GR B the eas...

Curved Steel Goes to the Movies!

We recently completed a project for a motion picture museum. We have bent and shipped approximately 328,000# of bent steel for this project. Materials consisting of: Tube Steel 12" X 6" X .375" WALL A500 GR B Tube Steel 8" X 4" X .375" WALL A500 GR B Tube Steel 6" X 6" X .375" WALL A500 GR B 6"...

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