Industrial Turnaround Services in Canada
Comprehensive Turnaround Field Service Support
Trust and safety are two of the highest priorities at Altex Industries. Since 2001, our team has delivered industrial turnaround services and boilermaker field support for refineries, gas plants, and other heavy industrial facilities across Canada. With decades of experience, our field supervisors and site managers play a hands-on role in planning, scheduling, and executing major plant turnarounds safely, efficiently, and on time.
Altex Field Services division specializes in Big and Ugly turnarounds, especially high-pressure exchanger loops.   Â
Our crews are trained, equipped, and fully supported by Altex’s extensive corporate services, including Engineering, Project Management, QC, Supply Chain, Warehouse/Mobilization, and Shop Fabrication. Altex is available 24/7 and 365 days/year to support your crucial turnaround activities.
See Our Team in Action During a Major Refinery Turnaround
Turnaround Scope
- Boilers and related pressure vessels
- OTSG's, HRSG's, package boilers, reboilers
- Recovery boilers
- Heat exchanger bundles
- Vessels and towers including internal trays
- Piping - B31.1 and B31.3
- Furnaces and reformers
- Sulfur condensers and waste heat boilers
- Air coolers
Services
- Turnaround planning and scheduling support
- Engineering support and troubleshooting
- Complete turnover of QC documentation
- Bundle pulling, pushing, handling
- Repair of bonnets, dollar plates, floating heads
- Repair of heat exchangers and pressure vessels
- Welding repair on pressure parts
- Portable machining, flange repair
- Full & partial re-tubes, tube-plugging
- Controlled bolting - tensioning and torquing
- Jack and rolls
- Internal tray removal and installs
- Blinding of process equipment
- Hydrotesting of process equipment
- Coordination with pressure regulatory authorities
- Onboarding of crews to site
- Full and complete administration of project
Altex has 249 active certified weld procedures for most metallurgies and combinations
Altex has over 450 certified weld procedures
- 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
Industries Served
- SAGD facilities
- Upgraders
- Refineries
- Petrochemical
- Pulp & paper
- Power generation
- Carbon capture
- Biofuels
- Gas processing
