Expert Fabrication Done Your Way

Your primary source for pipe, structural, sheet metal, and exchanger fabrication. End-to-end, high-performance fabrication services in support of general contractors and owner-operators in construction, maintenance, and turnaround projects.

Great Performance is a Choice

Most fabrication services companies focus mainly on getting the job done. We’re different. We focus on project success and your long-term operational asset performance, contribution, and value.

The Gulf Coast Shops helps our customers achieve high-performance construction, maintenance, and turnaround success which lowers cost and optimizes production. They achieve through our proven REP Methodology, consistent safety record, our skilled craft, experienced leadership, long-term partnerships, and our values.

  • Continuous Safety Improvement – Every Project, Every Day
  • Dedication to Success of Our Customers and Employees
  • Integrity, Confidentiality, and Respect for all Customers, Employees, and Contractors
  • Protect Our Customer’s Economic Resources
  • Complete Every Project Right, the First Time
  • Rely on Audits and KPIs to Prove Cost-Effectiveness
  • Continuous, Long-term Financial Strength & Stability

Each Gulf Coast Shop has an award winning safety culture, programs, and training. Our perpetual goal is zero recordables.

We rigorously adhere to our customer and industry standards through comprehensive internal processes that ensure:

  • Competency: Skilled Training Programs and Certifications
  • Safety Culture: Weekly audits, site audits, behavior observation, validated task completion audits, management assessments, worker location audits, a 52-week training program, supervisor training, and JSA evaluations and process audits
  • Hazard Recognition and Identification: Crew-generated JSA processes, audits, and training for everyone including supervisors

In each project, in every task, and every day all the Gulf Coast Shops drive a comprehensive safety culture to protect our customers and our people with:

  • Required Regulatory Safety Training
  • Skills Assessments for Construction Trades
  • Behavior-based Safety Training

We successfully attract, train, reward, and retain the best in specialty craft and services workers.

Our consistent and predictable workforce means you often see the same people year after year on your projects or handling your maintenance in a safe and cost effective manner.

With our vast employee base, our safety culture, productivity, and cross-skill capabilities mean we can apply what you need, when you need it most, reducing labor and safety risk to your operation.

 

Pipe Fabrication

From stainless steel to carbon steel pipes, you get the innovative customized solution you need. Our highly trained technical experts use state-of-the-art equipment to safely accelerate production and ensure precision and quality.

We can meet hard deadlines on any size project, offer rapid response for shutdowns and turnarounds, and are available around the clock for emergencies.

At Gulf Coast Fabricators we’re driven by training, compliance with rapidly changing laws and codes, and the adoption of new technology.

Our Vernon cutting table, for example, saves customers time and money. By computerizing cutting and drilling activities, it boosts precision, improves our flexibility and increases spool counts. Computerized tracking of pipe detailing activities keeps you informed of order progress at every step.

Material diversity is another Gulf Coast Fabricators advantage. Our dedicated nickel alloy bays allow us to eliminate any concerns of cross-contamination from carbon steels and chromes.

Our expert welders are qualified to perform hundreds of welding procedures, including submerged arc welding (SAW); gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW); gas metal arc welding (GMAW); flux core arc welding (FCAW); and, shielded metal arc welding (SMAW).

CAPABILITIES
  • Full 3D and 4D technology, modeling, and workflows
  • 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility
  • Six different fabrication bays
  • Hydro-testing area
  • 90%+ of laydown area is concrete or stabilized material
  • 150+ person team
  • SAW, GRTAW, GMAW, FCAW, and SMAW qualified

Structural Steel and Sheet Metal

Gulf Coast Structural Steel and Fabricators is a single source for structural steel and sheet metal fabrication and construction. We’ve become one of the region’s largest providers for one reason: trust. Industrial customers know they can rely on us to meet their exact specifications and requirements, regardless of scope, size or complexity.

When you work with Gulf Coast Structural Steel and Fabricators you get:

  • Innovative estimating
  • Precision steel detailing
  • Streamlined drawing approval
  • Efficient project management
  • Quality shop fabrication
  • Real-time production status
  • Rigorous quality inspection
  • Full document control
  • Field receiving
  • Expert erection
CAPABILITIES
  • 35,000 square foot facility
  • Integrated 3D and 4D technology, modelling, and workflows
  • Structural steel fabrication
  • Plate fabrication: 16ga to 4″ thick
  • Stainless steel, aluminum, alloys, and carbon steel
  • Plasma, water jet, or oxyfuel cutting and burning
  • Shearing, breaking, plate rolling (incl. half wrap)
  • Punching of any metal
  • Pipe supports
  • Pipe attachments
  • Guides and anchors
  • Beam clamps
  • Hold-down clamps
  • Pipe clamps (2-36″, regular and heavy-duty)
  • Plate shoes: clamp-on, weld-on
  • Tower, vessel, and drum replacement parts
  • Trays, ring supports, clips
  • And more…

Exchanger Fabrication

Gulf Coast Exchanger offers full-service design, fabrication, re-tubing and repair services 24 hours a day to satisfy its customers’ demanding maintenance and turnaround requirements.

Gulf Coast Exchanger’s machining and fabrication abilities are endless. Rigorous planning, sequencing and quality controls promote productivity, eliminate delays and assure projects stay on budget and on time.

Gulf Coast Exchanger is located on a 10-acre tract directly across from Gulf Coast Fabricators at its Beaumont, Texas, complex. Its experienced staff of design engineers and crafts personnel is always available to offer solutions to your most challenging exchanger, pressure vessel and machining hurdles.

We’re your best source and choice for the very best in:

  • Shell and tube exchangers (fabrication and repair)
  • Tube bundles (new and re-tube)
  • Pressure vessels
  • Job shop machining
  • Tube plugs (standard and custom)
  • Vibration mitigation technology
    CAPABILITIES
    • 51,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility
    • Vertical boring mills up to 108″ in turn
    • Horizontal boring mills
    • Computer numerical control (CNC) mills and lathes
    • CNC drilling capable up to 108″ diameter
    • Large-capacity welding positioners and manipulators
    • Orbital tube welders and hydraulic extractor

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    Gulf Coast Fabricators

    9695 Walden Road
    Beaumont, TX 77720
    M: (409) 866-6721

    Gulf Coast Structural Steel

    6301 N. Twin City Highway
    Port Arthur, TX 77642
    M: (409) 722-9690

    Gulf Coast Exchanger

    9690 Walden Road
    Beaumont, TX 77720
    M: (409) 866-6721

    The Gulf Coast Shops

    Comprehensive and high-performance services in support of general contractors and owner-operators in their construction, maintenance, and turnaround projects.

    Your primary source for pipe, structural, sheet metal, and exchanger fabrication.

    The best, safest, and most cost-effective choice for petrochemical and refinery owners and operators to achieve reliable and high-quality products, and a long-lasting and high-performance operational environment.

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