Photos: Shaping steel
Caid Industries manufacturers products from public art to heavy mining equipment.
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Welder and fabricator Jimmy Perez cuts a pipe in one of the five buildings that make up Caid Industries.
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Welding inspector Vince Pitts applies a penetrating die fluid that reveals imperfections in welds on this tube sheet endplate for a heat exchanger at Caid Industries in Tucson, AZ. All the small holes will have 175 foot tubes welded in and fit into an exchanger made up of pipe sections. like the one in the background.
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A huge air-to-air heat exchanger for Asarco sits outside the large shop building.
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The newest, largest building at Caid Industries can house oversized objects like the 20' diameter steel pipe at right, part of a heat exchanger being built by Caid.
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Electrician Don Collins works on wiring a flow monitor for use in the crude oil industry.
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Bob Tolano, left, and Don Collins work on flow monitors for use in the crude oil industry.
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A water jet cutting machine uses a 90,000 psi stream of water to cut through a piece of 1-1/2 inch thick A36 Carbon Steel.
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A lid to one of the new missle boxes being manufactured for Raytheon is a new job for Caid Industries.
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CEO Bill Assenmacher in the display room with some of the small art pieces manufactured there.
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The water jet was used to cut pieces from this block of steel leaving a leftover skeleton. Pieces like this sometimes sold to artists.
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These scrap disks will be recycled from a previous job.