Emergencies rarely occur at convenient times. Indeed, it was a Friday night around 9:30 pm when we learned of just such an emergency. It was a collapsed deaerator tank forcing the shutdown of a boiler and having a serious negative impact on production. The RECO team didn’t wait for Monday morning. We kicked into high gear and put a plan of action into place that took advantage of our ability to get jobs done under any and all circumstances. By Saturday morning a RECO Engineer and a Boilermaker Superintendent had traveled the 200 miles and were on site, committed to finding the quickest possible fix. By noon we had approval from the customer to proceed with our plan, starting with … [Read more...]

The ideal location for your next tank or tank repair might not be in the most ideal construction zone. In fact, odds are it won’t be. Just consider a couple of recently completed RECO Constructors jobs where space and time constraints were so tight it could have seemed that our customers were asking for the impossible, yet we found a way. In the first example (see photo), the tank was fully built nearby which allowed for the fastest tank replacement turnaround possible. Once constructed, it was ready for a quick and safe installation. Perhaps even more challenging was replacing a 20-foot diameter critical horizontal filtrate tank measuring 60 feet in length and positioned in the middle … [Read more...]