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production excellence

CryoMachinery has been building cryogenic expansion machinery since 1943. Since that time, one facility has successfully manufactured approximately 800 operating units and 350 spare backup units. Our production facility offers a wide range of services and is staffed by ten full-time machinists/millwrights who are highly skilled and cross-functional. Together this provides a great wealth of experience.

  • 145+ years of combined APCI Experience

Our production facility offers a wide range of services and is staffed by ten full-time machinists/millwrights who are highly skilled and cross-functional.

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Inspection

The inspection area has a full array of precision measuring equipment including:

  • Large computer-assisted coordinate measuring machine (CMM) 48" x 43" x 30" high working envelope
  • 30" optical comparator
  • Precision air bearing 8" and 24" rotary tables that are equipped with high-resolution digital and analog amplifiers
  • Large, high-precision, granite surface plates
  • Hand measuring tools such as micrometers up to 18", calipers to 48", inside micrometers up to 40"
  • Hundreds of other precision gauges and instruments including hardness tester, gage blocks, pressure gage calibrator
  • All measurement and test Equipment are calibrated periodically per ISO 9001
  • 2-ton overhead jib crane
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Assembly

The assembly area has mechanical and hydraulic arbor presses, an extensive assortment of hand and power tools, and all necessary precision tools to ensure required clearances and assembly tolerances are properly adjusted.

  • 6-ton overhead bridge crane
  • Rebuild of repairs, witnessed if desired
  • Documented records of assembly clearances, if needed
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Balancing
  • Hoffman hard bearing—can balance down to .0005 oz-in
    • up to 180-pound rotating element
    • up to 19" diameter work piece with 3.14 ' journal diameters
    • up to 45" long work piece between bearing pedestals
  • 125 RPM low speed to 3900 RPM high speed
  • Schenck soft bearing—can balance down to .000015 oz-in
    • up to 130-pound rotating element
    • up to 24" diameter work piece
    • up to 24" long work piece between bearing pedestals
  • ½ ton overhead jib crane
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Cleaning
  • Abrasive glass bead blaster
    • 48"w x 48"d x 31"h clearance capacity
    • 800-pound maximum weight
  • Dry-Honer sandblaster
    • 5"w x 6"d x 5"h clearance capacity
    • 4,000-pound maximum weight
  • Immersion cleaning tanks 60" x 30" x 50" high using aqueous solution
  • Oxygen and fluorine cleaning—within the atmospherically controlled facility is a oxygen clean room for assembly and processing of hydrocarbon free equipment
  • 6-ton overhead bridge crane
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Pressure Testing
  • Hydrostatic test up to 10,000 PSIG, pneumatic up to 3000 PSIG
  • 6-ton Overhead Bridge Crane
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Testing
  • 500 HP Cooper TA-26 4 stage compressor available
    • 2600 ACFM, 160 PSIG discharge
  • 240/480 VAC power
  • Vibration monitoring equipment, spectrum analyzer, etc
  • Calibrated instrumentation
  • 3-ton overhead bridge crane
  • Variable frequency HS drive (50kVA, 460V)
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Welding
  • Miller Syncrolane 300-amp
  • Tig and Stick welding
  • Oxygen and acetylene cutting torch
    • Stainless and carbon steel up to ½-inch thick capacity clearance
    • Aluminum up to ½-inch thick
  • 6-ton overhead bridge crane
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Field Support
  • Mechanical work on expanders, compressors, blowers, reciprocating engines, pumps, CryoMachinery or non-CryoMachinery equipment
  • Experience in Europe, Far East, South America, United States
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Light Machining
  • Manual—no CNC
  • 14" Lathe & Bridgeport milling machine with digital readout
  • Knowledge of available sources
  • 2-ton overhead jib crane
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Tubing
  • Pipe cutting up to 5-inch diameter
  • Tube bending up to ¾-inch diameter
  • Pipe threading up to 2-inch diameter
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