Aluminum Welding & Fabrication
Aluminum Welding & Fabrication in Newport News & Hampton Roads, VA
Aluminum is our specialty and our most-requested work. Marine hulls, rails, and tanks; structural and architectural aluminum; charge-pipe and process piping; pressure components; and the precision aluminum repair most shops turn away. TIG and pulse-MIG on 5000- and 6000-series, cast, and plate — across Hampton Roads.
Capability summary
- Processes
- TIG · MIG
- Coverage
- Hampton Roads · Within 90 minutes of Newport News
- Rigs
- Multi-process mobile fleet
- Response
- Same-day for industrial emergencies
- Standards
- AWS D1.1
What this means in practice
The kind of work we take.
Example 01
Aluminum boat rail and hull repair, dockside
TIG-welded 5052 hull patch and a fabricated bow rail on a vessel that had to be back on the water by the weekend. No filler-rod shortcuts.
Example 02
6061 structural aluminum frame, in-shop
Pulse-MIG welded aluminum platform frame cut on the CNC plasma table, finished to drawing tolerance for a process-equipment install.
Example 03
Cast aluminum housing and charge-pipe repair
Crack repair on a cast aluminum housing and a fabricated aluminum charge-pipe — the precision TIG aluminum work most shops won't touch.
How the job runs
Procedure-qualified. Operator-qualified. Documented.
Every weld is laid to a qualified procedure by a qualified operator, with a documented pass log. That's what separates commodity welding from industrial welding, and it's the standard we hold to on every job.
- Pre-weld joint prep and fit-up inspection
- Matched filler metal and shielding gas to the base material
- Procedure-qualified technique (stringer vs. weave, travel speed, amperage)
- In-process inspection between passes
- Post-weld visual and, where applicable, NDT
- Documented pass log for the project file
Related services
More of what we do.
Structural & Bridge Welding
Structural steel, bridge, and heavy-civil welding under AWS D1.1 and D1.5.
Learn more →Marine & Shipyard Welding
Aluminum, copper-nickel, and stainless for Hampton Roads' marine economy.
Learn more →Heavy Equipment Repair & Rebuild
Excavators, cranes, loaders, crawlers, back in service same week.
Learn more →Have a problem no one else will touch?
That's our specialty.
Cracked booms at 2am. Pressure-line rebuilds under a compressed shutdown window. Copper-nickel on a vessel that has to sail Monday. Call.