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Smokey Falls Power Generating Station
in Kapuskasing, Ontario
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In late August of 2012, Con-Tech Systems Ltd. was approached by Geo-Foundations Contractors Inc. to supply them with the necessary anchors and hardware to complete a job. The job was at the Smokey Falls Power Generating Station in Kapuskasing, Ontario. The customer was Ontario Power Generation.
It was going to be an interesting project. There weren’t many anchors, however;
the 6 anchors that were required consisted of 37 strands each at over 100’ long
per strand. On top of this, each individual anchor had to be remotely monitored
by load cells to make sure that there was no shifting of the anchors in the future.
This required some custom hardware such as externally threaded anchor heads,
load cells, re-stressing tubes, and load cell platens. Due to the complexity of the
added hardware, it was deemed necessary to create a 3D model of all the components. This way, all parties involved could visually see how things worked
and fit together before hand so that there would be no issues on the job site.
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After many meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions, everyone involved
agreed on a plan and production moved forward.
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Thanks to the new addition of CTS Machining, Con-Tech Systems
Ltd.’s machine shop, all machining of hardware was able to be
done in-house. This was a huge benefit in time, cost, and design.
The anchor heads were machined from a billet piece of 1045
grade steel primarily on a CNC mill. The machining process involves drilling all required holes for the strand to pass through, as
well as holes for grouting operations and tapped holes for lifting
and restrainer plate bolts. After the basic head was machined, it
was externally threaded with a 14”-4 TPI ACME thread so that,
should the need ever arise, it could be re-stressed using the CTS
supplied Re-Stressing Tube Assembly. The stressing head required was machined from a billet piece of 4140. The original
block of steel weighed over 350 pounds and it took over 40 hours
to complete the machining. In addition to common parts such
as the anchor and stressing head, this project also required CTS
to supply some less common parts such as load cell platens and
a relatively new design - organizing fingers. This product is useful for anchors with a lot of strand and a long tail length. It allows the contractor to install the organizer and use it to install the
stressing head on the strands, and then be able to remove the
organizer, so that it may be re-used again on the next anchor.
CTS was honored to work on such a special project and
would like to send a special thank you to both Daniel Lees
and Gavin Edmunds of Geo Foundations for the opportunity.
Con-Tech Systems Ltd. would like to sincerely thank GeoFoundations Contractors Inc. for awarding CTS this project.
Machining ....
Machined and threaded
For more information about this project please contact:
Brent Smith: brent@contechsystems.com
This Project a Glance:
Owner: Ontario Power Generation
Contractor: Geo-Foundations
Contractors Inc.
Project Location: Kapuskasing, Ont.
Project Start Date: August 2012
Project Completion: Complete
CTS materials used:
• CTS Machine shop
• CTS Strand Anchor hardware
Organizing Fingers: Separated
Load cell platens
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Overstock INVENTORY CLEAR-OUT
SALE !
Take advantage of our current special deals on our overstock items.
Our current “on offer” list includes:
ALL THREAD BAR
1 7/8” 150 KSI
BAR
Ultimate: 409 kips
Yield: 371 kips
150 - 0118
COUPLER
NUT
150 - 0171
150 - 0170
$ 6.50 LF $ 30.00 ea
$ 28.00 ea
Avail: 7,200 LF
Avail: 282 pcs
Avail: 474 pcs
150 - 0095
150 - 0157
150 - 0154 Dome Nut
Ultimate: 191 kips
Yield: 168 kips
$ 2.95 LF $ 10.00 ea
$ 8.00 ea
Avail: 8,800 LF
Avail: 400 pcs
Avail: 1,400 pcs
# 18 GR 97
120 - 0006
120 - 0005
120 - 0004 Hex Nut
Ultimate: 467 kips
Yield: 391 kips
$ 8.00 LF $ 45.00 ea
$ 20.00 ea
Avail: 500 pcs
Avail: 739 pcs
1 1/4” 150 KSI
Avail: 2,900 LF
These items are “First come, first served”
Purchase of hardware is subject to purchase of bar.
Limited quantities, subject to prior sale and availability
Prices do not include shipping.
Items are located in our Delta, BC, Canada warehouse and are “as is”.
For more details on these and any other special deals please contact our Sales Team at:
ctseast@contechsystems.com and ctswest@contechsystems.com
Toll Free: 1-888-818-4826
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Special Announcement:
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Con-Tech Systems Ltd. is very proud of the fact that we are the EXCLUSIVE SUPPLIER
in North America of the famed, and Internationally Registered, IscHEbeck TITAN HOLLOW BAR
which also includes any reference to TITAN BAR, and TITAN THREAD.
Please contact us should you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!
Employee’s Corner:
Recognising our hard working Production and Plant Staff:
Service Award: We are pleased to announce that Eric DeVelbiss
has received an award for 5 years of Service.
Eric works for CTS in Charlotte, NC and is our Plant Manager at this location.
Congratulations on 5 hard working years Eric!
Eric Develbiss
Brockville Plant employees:
Charlotte Plant employees:
Machine Shop employees:
New Employees in Blaine :
Darryl Gallacher, Pete Stapper, Vince
MacDonald, Tony Wilson, Dana Strang
Will Tuinstra
Ryan Donovan, Will Holder, Harry
Tuinstra
Chris Hatley, Roger Bennett,
Milburn McKinney, Shawn Barksdale,
Jonathan Smith, Earnel Brooks
Warehouse Manager: Allen Cerny
Production: Robert Giuggio,
Andrew Docksteader. Welcome!
E-MAIL: ctswest@contechsystems.com
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Delta Plant employees:
Milenko Grahovac, Ramon Orpilla,
William Zhang
E-MAIL: ctseast@contechsystems.com