Facility

Facility, People & Equipment

AGI has 14 buildings on 26 acres with 85-150 trades people waiting to complete your project, on time, on budget with the highest quality. 100,000 square feet of fabrication shop with our highest building 80 feet high.

A diagram showing the layout of a building.

Building 1 - North Shop
- Built in 1997, 10,000 sq ft, 50 feet high
- Houses plasma cutting table and 10 foot plate blaster
- This shop is setup for fabrication of field erected tanks

Building 3 - Cold Storage
- Built in 1997, 1000 sq ft, 15 feet high
- Storage for pumps etc..

Building 5 - Stock Room
- Built in 2005, 3,300 sq ft, 25 feet high
- Houses shipping, receiving and small parts inventory

Building 7 - Small Part Fabrication
- Built in 2005, 2,000 sq ft, 25 feet high
- Houses lathes, milling machines and welding benches for small parts.

Building 9 - Vertical Tank Paint Bay
- Built in 2007, 4,000 sq ft, 45 feet high
- Houses turn table and manlift for painting and urethane insulating.

Building 11 - Office
- Built in 1997, 5,000 sq ft, 50 feet high
- Houses boardroom and offices for 20.

Building 13 - Gantry Building
- Built in 2008, 5,000 sq ft, 50 feet high
- Houses fabrication area for large items.

Building 2 - Cutting Department
- Built in 1981, 2,900 Square Feet, 25 Feet High
- Houses cutting department. Shear, Press, Iron Worker, Band Saw etc...

Building 4 - Horizontal Tank Paint Bay
- Built in 2005, 7,200 Square Feet, 35 Feet High
- Houses horizontal tank painting & final assembly area

Building 6 - Electrical Building
- Built in 2005, 1,000 Square Feet, 15 Feet High
- Houses main electrical feed for all buildings and large air compressors

Building 8 - South Fabrication Shop
- Built in 2005, 11,330 Square Feet, 25 Feet High

- Addition Built in 2017, 7,700 Square Feet, 76 Feet High
- Houses fabrication area. Large rollers including 20 foot wide roller.
- Houses plate decoiler.
- Door opening 36 feet wide x 70 feet tall.

Building 10 - Pipe Mill
- Built in 2008, 16,400 Square Feet, 35 Feet High
- Houses largest spiral pipe mill in North America.
- Houses horizontal assembly jigs.

Building 12 - Indoor Grit Blast Building
- Built in 2009, 4,000 Square Feet, 45 Feet High
- Houses indoor grit blasting equipment and grit reclaim unit.

Building 14 - Maintenance Building
- Built in 2016, 6,000 Square Feet, 25 Feet High
- Houses 4 bays to work on AGI's equipment.

People

Shop Capacity

  • Current maximum 105 shop personnel
  • 3 shifts total

Services

  • Full Time In House Professional Mechanical Engineers on staff
  • Other Engineering disciplines on retainer. eg Structural, Civil

Quality Control

  • Full time quality control personnel on staff.

Drafting

  • Eight AutoCad Drafting Technologists on staff.
  • Computer aided design and drafting.
  • 3d design and drafting with Autodesk Inventor
  • 2d design and drafting with Mechanical Desktop

Equipment

Shear

  • Pearson Shear 1/2" mild steel to 10'-0"
  • Rotary shear 12' diameter

Press Brake

  • Pacific press 150 ton, 264 bottoming to 12'-0"

Punch-Press

  • 70 ton - 20" x 28" bed

Ironworker

  • 600 ton, Bliss
  • 20 ton, Mubea

Welding Stations

  • 24 Mig machines, mild, Stainless Steel, flux core and Tig

Automatic

  • Lincoln sub-arc welder (on turning jig)

Submerged Arc Welder

  • Lincoln sub-arc welder (for floors)

Burning

  • Plasma-arc
  • Magnetic trace

Pyramid Rollers

  • Power rolling 1" x 12'

Hydraulic Presses

  • 4 units ranging from 5 to 30 tons

Band-saws

  • Summit horizontal

Turret Lathe

  • H.W. Ward Co. lathe 15 inch Swing x 36"

Flanger

  • Blue Valley tank head flanger can handle 3/8" material

Paint Shop/Booth

  • 4000 square feet total

Sand Blasting

  • 600 lb. Pot capacity

Lift

  • Simon scissor lift

Service Trucks

  • 1988 GMC Diesel lift truck
  • 1998 GMC Diesel flatdeck truck c/w portable welder

Handling

  • Shop gantry 30 ton main & 5 ton auxiliary
  • Several 1 and 2 ton hoists
  • Grove crane 20 ton
  • Cat Forklift capacity to 20,000 lbs.
  • Clark Forklift to 5,000 lbs.
  • Toyota Forklift to 5,000 lbs.
  • Adams grader
  • Case backhoe

Shipping

  • Road, Rail, Bus, Air and Courier
  • Both CN & CP's main lines run through Biggar, SK.
  • Two 45' main deck low boy c/w winch for unloading tilt tank trailer
  • 28' trailer for small tank delivery
  • In addition to our own fleet we have available reliable contract trucking firms who have hauled AGI products all over North America.

Office

  • Administration, Design/Drafting department, and Quality Control are housed at the production facility in Biggar, SK.
  • Sales offices in Winnipeg, MB., Battleford, SK, Calgary, AB., & Edmonton, AB