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"The cost for reactor head segmentation ultimately proved to be less than the contract award amount and in fact was approximately equal to what costs for transport and packaging an intact reactor head would have been."
- Michael Snyder, Principal Radiological Engineer
Diamond Wire Sawing of Metal
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Bluegrass is the world leader in diamond wire sawing of metal.  Our unequaled equipment resources, diamond wire inventory and teams of cutting technicians have been supporting industrial plant maintenance, capital projects and contractors for 28 years.

Our experience in steel mills, refineries, power and pulp and paper mills allow us to best dovetail our metal cutting solutions to your project requirements whether they are:  speed, silence, emissions free, smooth surfaces, small footprint, dust free, limited or remote access, or hostile environment.  

Bluegrass’ metal cutting services allow for segmentation or modification of metal: steel process piping, base plates, reactor nozzles, heat exchangers, 28” diameter crank shafts, copper, aluminum, steel, nickel, furnace spills into any size or shape.

Our metal cutting specialists operate with 40 hour hazwoper, 10 hour OSHA, Radworker, in addition to plant or site specific training.  Daily safety meetings incorporating job hazard analysis are mandatory.  Background checked, drug tested and US citizens, committed people are the backbone of our demolition company.

With 40-plus diamond wire saws, 100,000 linear feet of diamond wire, Bluegrass can rapidly mobilize to your site with the necessary equipment needed to satisfy your metal cutting requirement.

Combining these equipment resources with extensive pre-project planning Bluegrass can maximize pre-outage opportunities and actual outage performance to assist in accelerating or recovering schedule.  Our proprietary CO2 cooling and dust suppressant system is available wherever use of water is prohibited.  

Recent Segmentations:

Anchor plates, furnace flameouts, steel boiler plate end caps, cast iron pipings, crank shafts, inconel, condensers, reactor vessels, steam generators, zinc, stater, copper, and aluminum cutting.

Related projects:
ARKANSAS NUCLEAR STATION     BENICIA REFINERY     SMUD    

The Bluegrass controlled demolition company uses a diamond wire saw for precision cutting, including metal cutting and concrete cutting, in many situations from nuclear decommissioning to very selective demolition during industrial renovations, which may also involve Brokk robotic hammering when diamond wire cutting would be less efficient.