In early 2022, APM’s Rigging Team was informed of a distress call from a power station in Minooka, Illinois. The call noted that removal of a Generator Field could have been executed differently. The APM Rigging Team was called in to advise. “Before mobilizing, Boston Rigger, Kevin Melanson, traveled to the site of work to investigate and confirm that the scope could be achieved safely.”
Read MoreA core commonality between LEAN concepts and our focus on safety is the valuation of life and time well spent. Recently, members of our corporate team, Bruce Bever (Chief Finance Director), Lisset Lopez (Business Improvement Director), and Mellissa Fryman (Billing Manager), visited our Wilmington, MA office…
Read MoreWhat is the secret to a great project? It’s a group of people that are focused on a specific project, with specific goals and expectations, to ensure that they succeed together. When the team is efficient…
Read MoreWhen you need a rigging crew that is committed to safety and accuracy in every aspect of their tasks, APM delivers. Safety is our first priority always, and it is closely followed by our dedication to quality and accuracy. We take pride in these values, not just because they are important to fulfill our customer’s expectations, but because they are the standards we believe in and hold ourselves accountable to...
Read MoreWhen you have a rigging need that requires precision and expertise, APM delivers. We believe in careful planning and dedicated effort, so when we arrive on your jobsite, you can count on us to take every measure to ensure a smooth, safe move. Our APM Rigging team recently fulfilled this commitment to a new customer, Veterans Construction USA, completing a USDA-TUFTS hoisting job in Boston, MA...
Read MorePasadena recently bid farewell to one of its GE 7FA turbine rotors on January 31st of this year. The rotor was given to the APM SS Division by GE in early 2011 to use for training purposes. Over the years, it has served its time as a truly effective training tool, assisting in the training process for many APM SS Blade Technicians on multiple work scopes including removal and installation of buckets for F class gas turbines, biscuit mod, blend polish and peen, blade blending, erosion blending and flapper peening. The training mock-up in Pasadena is indicative of performing these processes at a site where the rotor is out of the machine and on rollers.
Knowing that internal parts of the training rotor we had was needed to repair a flooded power plant rotor in the Northeast (Coyote), the APM SS Division returned the rotor back to the GE Houston Service Center and replaced our training mock-up with a spare rotor from the Pasadena APM yard. The lead guys involved in the move were APM Personnel, Steven Putman, John Syphrett, Robert Thibodeaux and Kendall Tennyson...
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