Industry
Bulk Material Handling
HPS Fabrications engineers and builds bulk material handling equipment: shiploading stations, brows, bridges, gangways, boom and spout platforms, and conveyor components. Our ENCO engineering division added a team dedicated to port facilities and shiploaders in 1990. We engineered one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, in Latvia.
A Michigan shop that engineers ports
It is a fair question how a fabricator in Wyandotte ends up engineering port equipment abroad. The answer is ENCO.
ENCO Engineering has been the in-house engineering division since 1985. In 1990 it added a team focused specifically on port facilities, shiploaders and related bulk material handling systems. Thirty-five years of that specialisation is why the work comes to us.
The clearest result: one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, in Latvia. More on the shiploading systems page.
What we build
- Shiploading stations and shiploaders
- Brows, bridges and gangways: including US Navy brows
- Boom and spout platforms
- Conveyor systems and belt conveyor components
- RDF feed equipment and related process handling
Why this equipment is engineering-led
Bulk handling equipment moves large masses continuously, outdoors, often over water.
The design problem is dynamic loads, wind loads, abrasion and fatigue over decades of duty, not a single static load case. That is analysis work, and it has to happen before fabrication, which is why our engineers and fabricators share a building. Mechanical, electrical and structural disciplines are all in house, along with CAD modeling, simulation and finite element analysis.
Built at the scale the equipment needs
Port equipment is big. Assembly happens in a bay roughly 100 feet long under a gantry crane, and equipment too large to ship whole is built in segments engineered to align on site, the same approach used for the molten salt bath systems.
Plate is cut on our own CNC plasma table, fabricated and welded by certified fabricators, and coated in house, which matters for equipment that will live in salt air.
We also provide field support through installation and commissioning.
Common questions
Bulk Material Handling: questions buyers ask
What bulk handling equipment have you built?
Shiploaders, brows, bridges, gangways and conveyor components, including one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, in Latvia. ENCO has been engineering port and shiploader equipment since 1990.
Do you engineer it or just fabricate it?
Both. Licensed professional engineers on staff handle the mechanical, electrical and structural design, including wind loads and structural weights and loads, which is exactly what port equipment lives or dies on.
Can you work from a performance specification?
Yes. Tell us the throughput, the material, the vessel and the site conditions. You do not need a finished drawing package to get a useful answer.
Who is accountable if something does not fit on site?
One company. Concept, design, fabrication, assembly and installation all sit with HPS, with field support. There is no second supplier to point at.
How big can you build?
The main bay runs roughly 100 feet under a gantry crane, and anything larger is built in segments engineered to align on assembly.
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