Services
Progressive Pipe Fabricators nationwide locations represent over 200 fabricators offering custom fabrication services for nearly all sprinkler systems types, and includes the fabrication of pipefittings, valves, sprinkler heads, and sprinkler components.
Our fire fabrication welders all weld to the AWS B2.1 standard for shielded metal arc welding and utilize automatic production welders.
Customized fire fabrication services include:
- Cutting
- Plasma cutting
- Welding
- Re-grooving
- Threading
- Hanger assembly
- Outlet welding
From inside Progressive Pipe Fabricators more than 350,000-square-foot state-of-the-art fabrication facilities, trained and certified fabricators perform thousands of welds per day—on both carbon steel and galvanized pipe—and ship several million pounds of fabricated material per week.
We recognize the importance that prefabrication brings to projects with fast-schedules and limited on-site space. With seven fabrication facilities sprinkled across the United States, we understand that prefabrication helps to:
- Shorten durations
- Eliminate on-site activity
- Reduce on-site waste
- Increase safety
Fabrication capabilities include:
- Threading - ½” - 8” carbon steel and galvanized
- Uni-strut /angle iron cut to length and slotted
- Headers / weld flanges / adjustable pipe stands
- Roll grooving up to 36” and cut grooving 2 ½” - 12”
- Galvanized pipe / welding, grooving and threading
- Hanger fabrication
- Painting and powder coating finishes
Network of Fabrication Shops Nationwide
No matter where you operate across the U.S., we have state-of-the-art Fire Protection Fabrication facilities strategically located to serve you nationwide:
ALABAMA (Trinity)
- 82,000 square feet
- More than 20,000 individual sprinklers and nearly 1 million pounds of fabricated material shipped per week
- Two shifts, five days per week
ARIZONA (Kingman)
- 20,000 square feet Temporary Facility in current operation
- 84,000 square foot State-of-the-Art Fabrication Facility
- Two shifts, five days per week
- Opening late Summer 2022!
ARIZONA (Glendale)
- 60,000 square foot State-of-the-Art Fabrication Facility
- Two shifts, five days per week
CALIFORNIA (Brea)
- 22,000 square feet
- Nearly 20,000 sprinkler heads per month
- Two shifts, five days per week
INDIANA (Fort Wayne)
- 100,000 square feet
- 5,000 welds per day
- More than 1.5 million pounds of fabricated materials shipped per week
- 24/7/365
MICHIGAN (Kalamazoo)
- 11,000 square feet
- Nearly 10,000 sprinkler heads per month
- One shift, five days per week
OHIO (Masury)
- 50,000 square feet
- One shift, five days per week
Tenant Build-Out Project Spotlight
Tenant Build-Out Project Highlight
When a large law firm needed to expand and modernize its offices, they called on Gibson Electric for a complete package of electrical contracting services.
During the project, we installed a complete structured-cable system, the highlight of which was a data center build-out and riser providing high-speed interconnectivity to the rest of the office suites.
The facility’s two floors worth of data center space features:
- Separate and dedicated electrical service and distribution systems
- Emergency generator
- Uninterrupted power supply (UPS)
- N+1 power support
Throughout the entirety of the project, Gibson Electric maintained our client’s strict move-in schedule. The remaining 25-floor build-out included:
- Two complete high-end conference centers
- State-of-the-art conferencing ambiance controls
- Comprehensive electrical installation
- Voice/data structured systems
- Life safety systems
- Lighting fixtures
- Electrical receptacles