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Company's Introduction

Main Activities

Products / Services

Pressure Equipment

Manufact. Equipment

Erection Activities

Quality Assurance
 
 

 

Pressure Equipment

The activity of design and manufacture of pressure
equipment includes the following types of equipment for Refineries, Chemical, Petrochemical and Power Plants.

1. Reactors
2. Columns / Towers
3. S&T Heat Exchangers
4. Pressure Vessels
5. Low Pressure and High Pressure Preheaters
for Power Plants.
6. Condensers.
7. Fired Heaters.

EKME designs and fabricates its equipment in
accordance to the following codes :

  • ASME VIII Div. 1
  • AD Merkblatter
  • TEMA
  • BS 5500
  • API
  • CODAP
  • ISPESL

Client's special specifications can also be adopted
(e.g. Exxon's International Practice).

Third Party Inspection can be carried out by agencies such as TUV, Lloyd's Register, Moody Tottrup, Austrian TUV, with local offices in Thessaloniki.
The detailed engineering of the process equipment is carried out by EKME using owned software packages.
All drafting operations are performed by EKME, using Autocad v.14 or 2000.
The variety of fabrication materials in which EKME is experienced include carbon steel and low carbon steel, stainless steel, specialty alloys (duplex, incolloy 600/800, hastelloy), copper and nickel alloys, titanium and clad materials.

Post Weld Heat Treatment is executed in-house using our own gas fired furnace - dimensions 4m x 5m x 10m with a capacity of 40 tons @ 750°C.

Key Figures
Max diam. (for transportation reasons)
7 m
Max length (for transportation reasons)
30 m
Maximum plate rolling capacity
100 mm @ 3000mm width
Heaviest Assembly manufactured
300 ton
Weight Limit (per single item)
200 ton

 

 

 

 

 

Manufacturing Equipment

EKME's workshops are fully equipped with the machinery necessary for the precise, timely and high quality execution of all works with our scope of activities. These operations include plate cutting and rolling, girth welding, tubesheet drilling, tube-to-tubesheet welding, machining of flanges (including boring of complete channels to guarantee joint sealing), weld deposition (cladding), e.t.c..
In detail, the main manufacturing machinery is of the following capacity:

TYPE CAPACITY
Plate bending machines 3000 x 100 mm
High Speed Sawing machines
Æ1000 mm
Boring Centre 3200 x 1800 mm
Radial Drilling machines Æ2000 x 150 mm (thickness)
Dished Heads forming press Æ3000 x 15 mm
CNC Tubesheet Drilling machine 2000 x 2000 x 170 mm
CNC Plasma and OxyAcetylene Cutting machines with Working bed : 12250 x 2600 x
300 mm max thickness (carbon steel)
SAW welding machines Up to 1000A max
SMAW welding machines Up to 600A max
GMAW welding machines Up to 600A max
Tube-to-tubeshhet welding machine (GTAW or autogenous)
Lathes (conventional) Æ3150 x 6000 mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Miscellaneous Equipment:


o Weld Positioners of various sizes.
o Position rollers, over 25 pairs, with max load capacity of 50 tons per pair.
o Sheet Shearing machinery.
o Shop bridge cranes, from 30 tons per item.
o Post Weld Heat Treatment Furnace.
Additionally, an indoors shot blasting and painting shop, with dimensions 28 x 9 m, is currently in development and should be operational by the end of the year. This will allow us to better control the quality of these operations and minimize their environmental impact.

Erection Activities

Typical industries served by EKME as an erection contractor include the following:
Oil Refineries
All 4 refineries operating in Greece are traditionally customers of EKME. We have undertaken a variety of projects within them, ranging from maintenance work in turn-around periods to complete process unit erection for crude distillation, F.C.C., Isomerization, Power former, Desulphurization, storage facilities and other.
EKME, also, participates on an annual basis in all the major turn around maintenance projects carried out within these installations. Furthermore, it is for over 25 years the sole annual contractor for heat exchangers for the Thessaloniki refinery.
Oil and Gas Storage + Transportation
EKME has long been regarded as a storage tank fabricator and erector in the Greek market. With over 70 tanks erected and over 40 serviced in the past 20 years, (all to API or EXXON standards) the accumulated know-how and expertise allows us to consider tank erection as one of the strongest points of our erection activities.
EKME has undertaken erection for companies like SHELL, BP, MOBIL, EKO (EXXON locally) and other local petroleum retailers.
Pipelines for petroleum and chemical projects (e.g. propylene) have also been constructed for the same clients.
Power Generation
EKME's involvement in the field of power generation ranges from fabricator of L.P. and H.P. Heaters, Condenser Boxes and Conveyor Systems, to erectors of penstocks, silos and storage tanks, steel structures of high complexity and weight and contractors for co-generation systems.
EKME has participated in may of P.P.C.'s projects in power plants, from hydroelectric (Thesaurus, Platanovryssi, Sikia) to S.E.S. Lignite Units (Lavrio, Ptolemais, Kardia).

Quality Assurance


EKME's commitment to quality, in all aspects of its operations, has always been one of the company's trademarks and the main reason behind its sustained success through the years.
EKME's Quality Assurance and Control System has been certified to conform to ISO 9002 standards since 1997. The certification covers all field and shop operations.