Whitford adds that DFI also designs and manufactures
helical piles, custom pile tip accessories and pile caps. The
steel manufacturing facility is equipped with a 60-foot
plasma table, sub arc unit, helix presses and multiple automated
welding stations. DFI also supplies and installs sheet piles,
H-beams, wooden and concrete piles.
“Our in-house design and fabrication capabilities allow us
to be responsive to our customers’ needs,” said Whitford. “If
a job requires us to modify or upgrade equipment, we have
the versatility to do it very quickly by having our engineers
collaborate with our operations and manufacturing teams
to examine the requirements, create a design, prove it out
and provide drawings to the fabrication group to take the
concept to reality. Our customers benefit from our abilities
to adapt quickly while maintaining high standards of safety,
project schedule and cost control.”
Completing the supply chain
“The company’s greatest risk and greatest reward was the
design and build of the ERW (Electric Resistance Welding)
Pipe Mill,” said Dyck. “With a lack of competitively priced
structural pipe in the market combined with a short supply of
quality used material, the decision was made to acquire and
operate a pipe mill. Having no luck sourcing a quick-change
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