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November 2012

New Business Hours!

6:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday – Friday.

Open at Six AM | Portland BoltAs our global reach continues to expand, and given the fact that we are providing an ever-increasing number of anchor bolts and construction fasteners for east coast projects, we have expanded our office hours. Our inside sales team consisting of estimators is now available for 11 hours each weekday to better service our customers both locally and throughout the world.

Our 85,000 square-foot manufacturing facility, complete with hot-dip galvanizing line, operates two shifts each weekday and frequently runs an additional shift on Saturday. The shipping department and will call counter are open from 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. We are committed to providing the most outstanding customer service in the industry, and these expanded hours of operation are necessary to uphold that commitment.

AnchorBoltSleeves.com

Educational Website Covering Anchor Bolt SleevesAnchor SleevesOur newest website,www.AnchorBoltSleeves.com is an educational website covering technical information and installation instructions for Wilson and Contec plastic anchor sleevesand custom steel pipe sleeves.

Anchor sleeves create an air pocket around the shank of an anchor bolt that has been poured into a concrete foundation so that slight adjustments can be made to the anchor bolts to fit the equipment base, steel structure, or other base that is attaching to the anchor bolts. Once the anchor bolts have been adjusted, grout is cast into the cavity created by the anchor sleeve. Created by our resident anchor sleeve expert Kyle Pettijohn, and designed by our web guru Sarah Kemp, this microsite is geared towards contractors, fabricators, engineers, and fastener distributors who are seeking technical information regarding anchor bolt sleeves.

Do you have questions about plastic anchor sleeves or welded pipe sleeves for anchor bolt assemblies, require a quote, or need to procure anchor sleeves for your next project? If so, contact Kyle.

All Thread Rodall_thread_rod1

Portland Bolt stocks perhaps the most comprehensive inventory of domestically manufactured all thread rod in the industry. Also known as redi-rod, fully threaded rod, continuously threaded rod, and abbreviated ATR, this multipurpose fastener can be used as an epoxy anchor, embedded anchor bolt, through bolt, and in pipe flanges. We stock 15 different grades of all thread rod in diameters ranging from 3/8″ through 2″ and in lengths up to 12 feet. Mild steel all thread rod is stocked both black and galvanized. We’ll ship stock lengths of 6′, 10′ or 12′, or we’ll cut it to length for you. If the all thread rod we cut needs to be galvanized, we’ll run it through our in-house hot-dip galvanizing line. Check out the Stock All Thread Rod page of our website for a complete list of diameters and grades of all thread rod we inventory for immediate shipment. If we don’t have the size / grade combination you need in stock, we’ll manufacture it in our 85,000 square foot production facility.

Giza North Power Project

Cairo, Egypt

Image courtesy of PGESCo

Image courtesy of PGESCo

Egypt is building the Giza North 1500 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant, a $1.3 billion project. The goal is to improve the security and efficiency of the electrical supply in a sustainable manner. The project consists of (6) – 250 MW gas turbines, (2) – 250 MW steam turbines, and (4) – heat recovery steam generators. The Giza North project is being built by an Italian contractor.

Read more about the 60,000 pounds of large diameter anchor bolts that Portland Bolt manufactured for this new Egyptian Power Plant and some of the other International and North American projects that Portland Bolt has been involved with.