Precision Grinding, Inc. adds 70,000 sq. ft. for Welding, Fabrication & Machine Building

October, 2011.  Precision Grinding, Inc. has begun remodeling a 70,000 sq. ft. building, located on Kilsby Circle in Bessemer, AL, off Highway 150, between Lakeshore Drive and Parkwood Road. Our new building is approximately 10 minutes away from our current location. We've just increased our total under-the-roof footage to 130,000 sq. ft.

Automotive Manufacturers, Steel Manufacturers, and many other Industrial Manufacturers continue to establish new plants and grow existing facilities across Alabama. These industrial producers have located in and around almost every community zone in Alabama, including the major metropolitan areas of Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile, Tuscaloosa, Auburn, Anniston, Gadsden, Dothan, Florence, Muscle Shoals, and Tuscumbia. Almost every part of the state has been experiencing "manufacturing job growth" for the past 10 years, even though the Huntsville Space Exploration industries appear to be waining, the textile industries have been fading, and the computer electronics manufacturing and production has shown inconsistencies. Alabama has become very well-positioned for further manufacturing growth in the short term and the long term for the heavy industrials, including automotive, rail, steel services, tooling & equipment, mining & minerals, paper - pulp - wood processing, machine & machinery manufacturing, and military production services.

According to Miles Cunningham, CEO, "We're adding floorspace to meet requests from existing customers. The additional space allows us to increase our capacity to meet customer requests for Welding, Fabricating, and Custom Machine Building services."

Precision Grinding has always fulfilled Grinding Services and Machine Shop Services for Heavy Industrial Companies and Specialty Machine Manufacturers. Specific, precision steel plate processing services include:

ASTM A36, ASTM A572, ASTM A514, AISI 4140, SAE 1045 
with Heavy Steel Plate Inventory on-hand
Flame Cutting & Plasma Cutting services
Stress Relieving & Annealing services
Blanchard Grinding & Surface Grinding services
Horizontal Milling, Vertical Milling and Planer Milling services
CNC Vertical Machining

We've always provided some level of Welding & Fabricating services, and we've been manufacturing custom machines for select customers for quite some time. The additional floor space allows us to increase the amount of Plate Inventory we keep on-hand and allows us to produce many more specialty fabrications and custom built machines from a much larger, dedicated Fabrication and Job Shop. During the past five years, the number of full-time employees has grown from 40 to over 60. Our equipment list has grown from 7 Grinders to 12 Grinders and from 4 NC Milling Machines to include an additional 3 CNC Vertical Milling Machining centers. Our welders and specialty fabricators have grown from a smaller department employing 3 full-time specialists to now include 8 dedicated welders, fitters and fabricators. We're currently hiring qualified welders, fabricators, and fitters to help us grow this Specialty Fabrications division.

We'll post pictures as we meet our remodeling schedule.

Precision Grinding at Design2Part Show, Dallas, TX

On March 4-5, 2009, the Design2Part Show in Grapevine, Texas brought together over 1200 manufacturing engineers, purchasing executives, research technicians, and sales personnel to discuss contract manufacturing along with their manufactured products.

At the show pictured above, Jerry Quinn, Sales Manager and Brian Everling, Market Research & Development hosted Booth #422 for Precision Grinding.

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Ted D'Elia, SE Regional Sales Manager and the rest of the The Job Shop Company who support the Design2Part regional shows helped all of us find ourselves comfortable at the posh Gaylord Texan Convention Center. More than 140 exhibiting companies from all over the United States found this to be one of the premier venues for a Design & Contract Manufacturing Event. We wish to thank The Job Shop Company, the greater Dallas / Ft. Worth community, and the attendees from Texas and surrounding states who became our visiting attendee "hosts" for this event.

The Grapevine area is located nearby the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. While many of the concrete roads remain white with newness, the convention center and the surrounding lodges and restaurants are a model for this century's building and construction efforts. We also passed by the new, centrally located, Dallas Cowboys stadium where we could see that members from Arlington have worked together to grow a successful manufacturing community, rich with modern amenities. The Arlington/Grand Prairie area remains headquarters for several prominent, international companies, such as Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopter and is a major international hub for companies such as Atlas Copco Secoroc.

Precision Grinding has plans to make other tours across the country. We look forward to visiting with you, then. If you ever find yourself in the Birmingham, Alabama area, possibly for a Talladega event or a Barber Motorsports event or just traveling through, please, stop by to pay us a visit.

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We believe that steel prices may have bottomed for now as steel plate manufacturers have declared plans to manufacture steel plate upon purchase order. In aggregate, steel plate manufacturers announced they have been operating at 70% capacity.