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Albina Co., Inc. recently spiral bent a piece of tube steel 10" X 6" X .375" WALL A500 GR B. This is a very tight spiral bend with a lot of twist….almost NO distortion. With the assistance of an induction heat source, Albina was able to spiral bend the tube steel the Easy way to a 65” center line pl...

St. Alphonsus Medical Center is non-for-profit hospital, serving Boise, and the surrounding communities in eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho. Albina Co., Inc. recently bent several long lengths of tube steel to form a beautiful curved entry-way at the Joint Preservation & Reconstruction Center. [caption id="attachment_663" align="aligncenter" width="300"] St. Alphonsus Medical Center Curved Canopy[/caption] [caption id="attachment_664" align="aligncenter" width="300"] St. Alphonsus Medical Center Curved Canopy[/caption] ...

Architecturally designed pedestrian bridges and walk-ways are often erected at transportation stations, universities, museums, business centers, and state parks. Most often, these curved steel bridges are constructed of bent or rolled structural steel including, pipe, square or rectangular tube stee...

When people ask me what I do and where I work, I get excited to tell them the answer because it almost comes as a surprise when I describe what our company does. When I say, " I work for a steel bending and fabrication company" many people look at me inquisitively and ask "so what does that mean?" S...

The bending portion of this project required very large HSS rectangular tubing to be bent consistently from piece to piece with little to no deformation. Albina bent 8 lengths of TS 20” x 12” x .500” wall A500 Gr. B, all over 70 ft long. Albina also bent 44 lengths x 60 ft and 23 lengths x 25 ft o...

The last few years of market growth have allowed Albina to increase our capabilities, our staff and to acquire some innovative new equipment and implement new processes on that equipment. We are proud to announce the newest bending technology at Albina, which is induction heating. Albina has u...

Albina produced the elevator garage doors, the door frames, the upper/lower sills and several other parts for the safe operation of the door system for the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles, Florida. Shaped like a piston driven into sand, the concrete-and-glass Porsche Design Tower will contain th...

Albina Co., Inc. recently provided the curved steel beams for an 8,000 square foot glass canopy at the Oregon State University (OSU) Student Experience Center, installed in Corvallis Oregon. The canopy links the new Student Experience Center with the Memorial Union. The canopy is not only functional...

Albina Co., Inc. is a small, family owned, 3rd generation company that can handle LARGE and SMALL projects requiring bent steel. While we do have a large national presence in the structural steel and architectural market of bent steel, we also love to work on smaller, local and regional projects tha...

Albina recently completed several curved steel pieces including a custom martini glass, a palm tree and a curved steel marquis for one of the entrances to the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fremont Street Experience is a five-block entertainment district in historic downtown Las Veg...