ABC welder in full mask cutting a heavy fabricated steel component, blue-green arc light and sparks in the fabrication shop

All steel and nonferrous fabrications — detail work to 150 t weldments.

90 × 30 × 16 m fab building Sub-arc · TIG · MIG Rotators to Ø 5 m Patented ABClad hard-surfacing

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The crew — accredited supervision

Our accredited Welding Supervisors lead a team of certified Welders and Boilermakers.

90 × 30 × 0m

Fabrication building · L × W × H

Workpiece mass · dual crane

Largest sheave-rotator diameter

Dragline-bucket arch pits

The fabrication shop the other six departments are built around.

All steel and nonferrous fabrications — from small detailed work to large structural sectionalised weldments — are carried out in a purpose-built 90 m × 30 m × 16 m high fabrication building, with workpieces up to 150 t handled under the dual cranes.

Because fabrication shares a floor with machining, induction hardening, fitting and painting, a weldment moves straight from the positioner to the borer to the paint bay — and every job leaves with a detailed QA package.

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Large fabricated steel drum with an inset machined stub shaft, weld seams visible, standing on the ABC workshop floor

New manufacture & repair

From rope sheaves to whole walking frames

New manufacture and repair of dragline and face-shovel rope sheaves and drums, pins and bushes, walking frames, cams and shafts, fairlead and boom-point assemblies, and hydraulic-excavator load rollers and drive sprockets — plus structural repairs for booms, side frames, car bodies, upper-frame modules, dippers and buckets.

Dragline & shovelSheaves, drums, pins & bushes, walking frames, fairleads, boom points
Structural repairBooms, side frames, car bodies, dippers & buckets
Larger scopeStacker reclaimers, silos, surge bins, rotary breakers, crushers & screens
PlusStructural steel — workshop and site

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Multi-pass structural weld seams joining heavy curved steel plates inside a fabricated vessel

Specialised welding

Sub-arc, TIG, MIG — and patented ABClad

Submerged-arc, TIG and MIG welding, run on booms, manipulators, rolls and jigs so the wire keeps moving on long seams. For wear, ABC’s patented ABClad hard-surfacing reclaims dragline components, dippers and buckets in the same bay.

ProcessesSubmerged arc · TIG · MIG
Hard-surfacingPatented ABClad wear reclamation
SupervisionAccredited Welding Supervisors · certified welders & boilermakers
QADetailed QA packages with all work completed

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Two ABC boilermakers dressing heavy steel weldments on the fabrication floor, grinding sparks flying across the bay

The building

A 90 × 30 × 16 m bay, rigged for heavy work

The fabrication building is sized for sectionalised weldments and whole machines: four dragline-bucket arch pits in the floor, seven rotators on the wall line, and dual cranes overhead for workpieces up to 150 t.

Fab building90 m × 30 m × 16 m high, purpose-built
Arch pits4 dragline-bucket arch pits
Rotators3 × Ø 5 m · 2 × Ø 3 m sheave · 2 purpose-built shaft
HandlingWelding booms, manipulators, rolls & jigs · to 150 t

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Department envelope

Fabrication plant & capacity

The plant that sets the fabrication envelope. Where a weldment lands inside these limits, it is built, hard-surfaced and dressed in this building — read it like a calibration sheet.

Doc ABC-FAB-01 Facility Paget, QLD Rev 2026-06

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Steel fabrication and specialised welding — plant, capacity and typical work.
01Plant / process	02Capacity	03Typical work
Fabrication building	90 × 30 × 16 m	Draglines, stacker reclaimers, silos, surge bins, structural steel
Dragline-bucket arch pits	× 4	Bucket and dipper rebuilds
Large sheave rotators	3 × Ø 5 m	Rope sheaves, drums
Small sheave rotators	2 × Ø 3 m	Sheaves, fairlead assemblies
Shaft rotators	2 × purpose-built	Cams, shafts, pins
Welding plant	Sub-arc · TIG · MIG	Long seams on booms, manipulators, rolls & jigs
ABClad hard-surfacing	Patented process	Wear reclamation — dragline components, dippers, buckets
Workpiece mass	To 150 t	Dual-crane lift · 12 m under hook

Specifications from ABC’s published capability documents · detailed QA packages with all completed work.

Department gallery

Off the fabrication floor.

Real work, photographed in the bay and in the field — no renders, no stock.

Three large fabricated gear blanks of increasing size standing upright on the ABC workshop floor — New-manufacture gears — the scale of the fabrication floor

ABC welder in hi-vis repair-welding a dragline undercarriage roller assembly beneath the jacked machine — Structural repair welding — dragline undercarriage, on site

ABC tradesperson marking out a large machined flange against the QA drawing on the workshop floor — Mark-out against the drawing — detail work, QA’d

Two large machined pinion shafts wrapped, strapped and job-tagged for dispatch from the workshop — Wrapped, tagged, dispatched — with the QA pack

Led from the floor, checked at every weld.

Supervision — our accredited Welding Supervisors lead a team of certified Welders and Boilermakers.
QA packages — detailed QA packages can be provided with all work completed.
Integration — machining, induction hardening, fitting and painting on the same floor, 24/7.

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Talk to the team that repairs all in house, 24/7.

Send the drawing or the broken part. Fabrication will scope it with the other six departments and come back with a quote and a QA plan.

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