Shutdowns, Outages & Turnarounds

      While Techwest Services was founded as a premier specialty welding company, we have made a concentrated and aggressive approach to becoming the solution to America's process industries turnaround needs.
      With Safety, Quality, and Customer Focus at the heart of everything we do, our personnel anticipate and overcome the challenges presented by the most complex turnarounds.  Our best-in-class turnkey turnaround team has a high success rate of exceeding client expectations and a reputation for being safe, professional, and delivering unsurpassed quality.  Holding very dear the safety of your personnel and the successful operation of your units upon our exit, we recognize the critical nature of our work means it has to be done right the first time, every time.

      Through extensive skills training, detailed work planning, and the consistency of our turnaround teams, Techwest Services is pleased to offer the following turnaround services:

  • PLANNING, SCHEDULING & ESTIMATING
    Our Shutdown Experts will help you plan, implement, and complete projects with desired results on time and within budget.  We help to create clear project missions and goals, accurately estimate project time and costs, employ project quality management, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems for optimal project control.

  • TURNAROUND COORDINATING
                        
                            "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The
                         ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.
                                 It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

    Inspired by this Carnegie quote, we promote a culture of teamwork, as this is the fundamental foundation of every successful project. Working as one team with all parties involved, we ensure appropriate resources, tools, and equipment is directed in a safe manner to meet budget and schedule, no matter what obstacles arise.

  • SPECIALTY WELDING

    Our background is in specialty welding.  We deliver high-quality welds in demanding environments under strict quality controls, and we do so while maintaining one of the best safety records in the industry.  Well versed in manual, semi auto & machine welding across a broad spectrum of exotic metals,     Techwest Services holds national board accreditation in the following stamps- “R” ( Pressure Vessel Repairs & Alterations), ASME “U” (Pressure Vessels), and ASME “S” (Power Boilers).

  • HEAT EXCHANGERS

    Techwest Services provides a wide-ranging approach to extracting, cleaning, and inserting heat exchanger bundles, to complete replacements. Arial Bays, U-tube, Straight Tube, & Hairpin exchangers are all covered by an efficient, experienced, certified rigging exchanger team. 
     
  • HEATERS, TOWER & VESSEL WORK

    By combining extensive planning with advanced technology, we deliver safe and cost effective solutions for critical path projects. From Heater Re-tubes & overlays, Towers being opened, tunneled, retrayed, repair alterations, & Overlay, to complete replacements, know that we have your needs covered. 

  • GENERAL MECHANICAL SERVICES

    When it comes to line isolation, valve work, hydraulic bolting, and hydrostatic testing, understand that our moral, willingness, and conscientious attitude comes to the forefront to make your life easy and stress free. While these are not necessarily “big ticket items”, they will break a turnaround if they are not met with the meticulous attention these items deserve. Field verification and tracking are essential tools to our success. Utilizing the highest standard hydraulic bolting, bolt tensioning, & bolt torquing technology and methods, we ensure your mechanically fastened connections are done right the first time, every time.
       
  • QA/QC SERVICES

    Starting with our expertise in fabrication, boilermaking, specialty welding, and field assembly, extensive detailed planning, our approach to teamwork, blended with our mission statement of “Safety First – Quality Always”, we only employ personnel that can exceed these expectations. With that framework in place, we employ a layered approach making sure everything is seen by multiple sets of seasoned eyes, ensuring we surpass every expectation you have of us.

  • INSULATION, SCAFFOLDING, HEAT AND STEAM TRACING