Maintenance Services
Altex Maintenance Field Support
Altex can provide your site with 24/7 mechanical maintenance support. Our crews can support any mechanical scopes that your site may have. Our highly experienced personnel can cover all of your needs with a supporting cross-shift. In many cases, our maintenance crews can transition over to Turnaround support as needed.
We Come Prepared
Altex Industries is already providing your turnaround services and designing and building new heat exchangers.
Let us leverage our experience and skillset to handle the day-to-day maintenance activities like boiler maintenance and heat exchanger maintenance.

Altex’s embedded maintenance service succeeds thanks to our highly experienced supervision and field crews, supported by our ability to deliver custom-fabricated products directly to site.
Altex Industries offers a full line of boilermaker and pipefitter onsite mechanical field maintenance services for boilers and heat exchangers including (but not limited to):
Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Maintenance:
- Bundle pulling and pushing
- Component disassembly and assembly
- Re-tubing and tube plugging
- Weld and flange repairs
- Portable machining
- Bolt torquing and tensioning, including controlled bolting.
- Blinding and isolation
- Hydrotesting
- Helium leak and pneumatic testing of tube-tubesheet joints
Air-Cooled Exchanger Maintenance:
- Re-tubing and tube plugging
- Header box repairs
- Header plug and gasket replacement
- Fin combing and cleaning
- Fan, drive, and motor maintenance and replacement
- Louver, linkages, and actuator maintenance and replacement
- Troubleshooting
Tower Maintenance:
- Weld repairs
- Tray work
- Bubble cap repairs
OTSG and HRSG:
- Back End Module Replacements
- Retrofits
- Pressure Part Maintenance
- Repair
Boilers and Cogen Maintenance:
- Inspections and boiler repair and maintenance
- Identify areas in distress
- Repair or replace components, including pressure parts and control systems.
Tanks - Bulk Product, Water Storage and Fuel Storage Reservoirs:
- Erection
- Seismic Retrofit
- Structural repair
Pressure Equipment Repairs and Maintenance:
- ASME Section VIII-1, U Stamp
- ASME Section I, S Stamp
- CSA B51
- ASME B31.1 and B31.3 Piping
- National Board {NB} and {R} stamps
Altex has 249 active certified weld procedures for most metallurgies and combinations:
- Carbon Steel
- Chrome-Moly - 1/2-Cr, 1-1/4Cr, 2-1/4Cr, 5Cr, 9Cr, 13Cr
- Stainless Steel - 304, 309, 316, 317, 321, 400 series, etc.
- Duplex - S32205, S31803
- Super Duplex - S32750, S32760
- Nickel alloys - Incoloy®, Hastelloy®, Inconel®, C-276, C-22, N06625, N08825, Alloy 59, C2000, etc.
- Clad or overlayed tubesheets with above metallurgies