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Koehler Electric played a key role in the completion of the new Ipsco Steel plant located in Montpelier, Iowa. The project had been faced with numerous delays. Koehler Electric was contracted by Mannesmann-Demag, the prime contractor for the project, to complete the electrical installations which had also fallen behind schedule.

We successfully completed the following installations:

    Steckel Mill
  • Controls
  • Entry & Exit Coiler Furnaces
  • Inline Roll Grinder
  • Pyrometers, Hot Metal Detectors & Photosensors
  • Entry & Exit Measuring Gauges
  • Width Gauge
  • Communication Cabling & Terminations
  • Hot Shear Cabling
  • Unilox System

    Meltshop
  • Baghouse Controls
  • Vault Rector Room Controls
  • Vault Dionized System Controls
  • Vault Grounding
  • Vault 34.5 Terminations on potential Transformers
  • Furnace Controls
  • Alloy Conveyor System
  • Lime/Charging Conveyor Controls
  • LMF Area Controls
  • Crane Feeders from Caster Services Substation
  • Pulpit Controls
  • Pulpit Heat Shields
  • Pulpit CCTV Monitor
  • Caster Controls
  • Caster Electro-Magnetic Brake Power Cabling
  • Caster Isolated Grounding
  • Caster Runout Tables Grounding

    Reheat Furnace
  • Controls & high Temperature Cabling
  • CCTV Controls
  • Pulpit & HVAC Electrical

    Raw Water System
  • Water Wells #1-6
  • Pump Houses
  • Water Treatment Plant
  • Fire Water Control Building

    Static Var Control House
  • Heat Trace
  • HVAC Controls
  • Dionized Water Controls

    Heckett Multiserv
  • Scrap Yard Office
  • Scrap Yard Underground Conduit System
  • Scrap Yard Power Distribution
  • Scrap Crane Feeders
  • Finished Crane Isolation Switches
  • Slag Yard Underground Conduit System
  • Slag Yard Ferrous Recovery Plant
  • Slag Yard Rail Scale House & Associated Controls
  • Slag Yard Canadian Pacific Rail Controls
Koehler Electric also provided cathodic protection of argon, oxygen and gas lines and grounding throughout the plant and all electrical services for the Praxair Oxygen Plant.

We supported commissioning in the following areas:
  • Melt Shop
  • Caster
  • Rolling Mill
  • Water Treatment Facilities
  • Cooling Bed
  • Cranes
  • Various other areas

As a result of our outstanding performance at the IPSCO Steel plant, we continue to provide electrical services to the plant.



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