Structural steel
Platforms, stairs, mezzanines, equipment supports, plant modifications and building extensions — fabricated to CSA W59, shop-primed, and installed by the same crew.
Capability
Shop and on-site welding, structural steel, chutes, hoppers, skids and one-off fabrication for Alberta's heaviest industrial operators. CWB-certified welders, B-pressure trades, engineered drawings, and the same crew that fits it up also shows up to install it.
Overview
Industrial fabrication is where drawings meet real conditions. Real conditions like 12 mm of concrete out of square, a beam the drawings didn't know was there, and a schedule that won't tolerate the part showing up wrong.
KBIM's fabrication shop has been cutting, bending, welding and fitting heavy industrial steel for Alberta's operators since the 1970s. Structural steel for plant modifications, custom hoppers and chutes for bulk handling, skidded equipment packages for remote sites, pressure piping, hand-rail and platform work, and the one-off custom fabs that every plant eventually needs and nobody sells off-the-shelf.
Every fab job is welded by a CWB-certified welder to CSA W47.1 Division 1 standards — and on pressure work, by a B-pressure ticketed welder to the applicable code. We work from your drawings, your EOR's stamped drawings, or — when a sketch on a clipboard is all there is — we'll field-measure, draft, detail, and build the thing properly.
And because KBIM is a millwright shop with a fab division (not the other way around), your fabrication typically ships out the door on the same truck as the crew that installs it. One scope. One quote. One accountable contractor for the build, the rig-in, the fit-up, and the final weld-out — done right, on time, on spec.
What's included
Six core fabrication capabilities — covering the structural, process, and one-off work that every working industrial plant eventually needs.
Platforms, stairs, mezzanines, equipment supports, plant modifications and building extensions — fabricated to CSA W59, shop-primed, and installed by the same crew.
Abrasion-resistant transfer chutes, surge hoppers, bulk bins, and custom transition pieces for aggregates, grain, coal, and bulk-handling applications — AR plate lined where it counts.
Pre-assembled, pre-tested skids for pumps, HPUs, compressors, and process packages — shipped as a drop-in unit, wired and piped to the edge of the skid, ready to tie in.
Shop and field spools fabricated to ASME B31.1, B31.3, CSA B51. Socket weld, butt weld, threaded, flanged — B-pressure ticketed welders, pressure-tested and documented.
Code-compliant industrial hand-rail, kick-plate, grating, ladders, crossovers and work platforms — built to AB OHS and the operator's plant standard.
The part that doesn't exist. Custom fixtures, purpose-built tooling, repair brackets, protection guards, wear plates — engineered, fabricated, and on your site before the shutdown opens.
How we work
The cost of a fab that doesn't fit isn't the fab — it's the crane, the crew, and the schedule slip. KBIM's fabrication process is designed to make sure the part fits the first time it shows up.
Site visit, laser / tape measurements taken against real conditions — not assumed conditions. Shop drawings detailed and sent for sign-off before any steel is cut.
Materials ordered with mill test reports, traceability logged to the job, and cut lists released to the shop only after drawings are approved and MTRs are in hand.
Fit-up by red-seal fitters, welded by CWB-certified welders, inspected per code (VT as standard, NDE where required), and documented to the job package.
Shop-primed, painted to your spec, tagged, delivered to your laydown yard, and — if it's on our scope — rigged in and installed by the same crew that built it.
Shop & capability
A fab shop is only as good as what sits on the floor. Ours is built to handle heavy industrial steel, stainless, aluminum, and the tight-tolerance work that keeps downstream crews off the phone.
Primary shop bay · pick & position
High-def · to 1½" carbon
200-ton · forming & bending
Punch · shear · notch
MIG · TIG · Stick · Flux-core
Field-ready · B-pressure
Heavy fixtures · clamping
UT · RT · MT · PT on demand
Where we work
Hoppers for grain terminals. Chutes for aggregate plants. Pipe spools for gas processing. Platforms for power stations. Skids for remote oilfield sites. Pulp-mill conveyor transitions, mine-site wear liners, forestry-plant structural. If Alberta industry built it, there's a good chance KBIM welded on it.
Pipe spool fabrication, structural plant modifications, skidded process packages, and pressure-rated piping for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
Equipment platforms, boiler-house structural, turbine-deck modifications, and auxiliary piping spools fabricated to ASME and installed inside the shutdown window.
Custom hoppers, bucket-elevator leg structural, conveyor gantries, dust-collection ducting, and transfer-point transitions for grain terminals and feed mills.
AR-plate-lined transfer chutes, crusher discharge chutes, screen-deck structural, conveyor gantries, and tertiary plant fabrications for aggregates and mining ops.
Debarker hoods, chipper inlet structural, dust extraction ducting, pulp-line spools, and mill-specific one-off fabrications for BC and AB forestry operations.
Machine bases, production-line guarding, equipment access platforms, and custom jigs / fixtures for multi-shift manufacturing operations.
Quality & compliance
In heavy industrial fabrication, "looks right" isn't a quality standard — it's what gets a fab rejected on receipt and sent back to the shop. The difference between a fab that passes inspection the first time and one that doesn't is documented process: materials, welders, procedures, and inspection — all traceable, all accountable, all on paper.
CWB
W47.1 Div 1 certified
B-Pressure
ABSA ticketed welders
ASME
B31.1 / B31.3 piping
COR
Certificate of Recognition
ISNetworld
Contractor prequalified
WCB AB
Good standing
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