Pharmaceutical & Sanitary Stainless Fabrication
Stainless process equipment, vessels and weld repair for pharmaceutical and process facilities, built and documented in our own shop in Bend, Oregon. This page is the paperwork rather than the pitch, because on a job like yours the paperwork is half the deliverable. Everything below is what actually leaves the shop with the work.
WHAT LEAVES WITH THE JOB
A signed certificate and a step by step record, plus the certificates behind every number on them. Your quality group should be able to check the work without calling us.
That is the package on non-code work. Code work carries more, because an Authorized Inspector is involved and code documentation is added, and it is quoted at a different rate.
HOW A JOB IS RECORDED
The record is filled in while the work happens, not written up afterwards. These are the steps on the repair record, and each one carries a result, an initial and a date.
WHAT GOES INTO THE WELD
Every one of these is a line on the certificate, and every one has a number behind it you can look up or ask us to send.
WHAT TOUCHES THE METAL
Contamination control is the question a pharmaceutical quality group asks and most shops cannot answer. Iron free abrasives only, tooling dedicated to stainless, no carbon steel contact. Every consumable goes on the record by manufacturer part number, so your team can look it up and check it against their own standard instead of taking our word for it.
Where a chemistry is used we send its safety data sheet, its technical data sheet and its NSF registration before it touches your equipment, and we ask your quality group to approve it first. SURFOX-T is NSF registered as an A3 acid cleaner, No. 142984. SURFOX-N is NSF registered as an A1 general cleaner, No. 142985. Walter publishes SURFOX-T as meeting ASTM A967 for passivation.
WHAT THE CERTIFICATE SAYS
N.B. Oler LLC certifies that the weld repair described above was performed with the materials, process and personnel listed, that the filler metal conforms to the specification and heat stated above per the manufacturer's certificate, and that the completed repair was inspected as recorded. This is a non-code repair to non-ASME-stamped equipment and is not an ASME or National Board (NBIC) stamped repair.
That last sentence is on the certificate deliberately. A certificate that overstates what it is gets a reviewer to throw out everything else on it. If your equipment carries an ASME nameplate, a weld repair on it has to be done by a shop holding a National Board R certificate, and that is not work we take on. We will tell you that before you ship anything.
WHAT WE WILL TELL YOU UP FRONT
We do not hold ASME BPE, 3-A, GMP or FDA certification, and we will not imply that we do. If your project requires one of those, say so at the inquiry stage and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right shop for it.
Work is performed to ASME standards. That is a statement about the procedure, the qualification and the records, not about a code stamp, and the certificate says so in its own words.
We specify a finish and we blend to it. We do not measure final Ra. If a number has to be verified, you verify it, and the certificate records that it was yours to verify.
We ask before we introduce a chemistry we did not quote. If a step gets added mid job you hear about it with the data sheets attached, and the change goes on the certificate once you sign off.
Inspection on this kind of work is visual. If your job needs liquid penetrant, radiography or a pressure test, say so at the quote stage so it can be built into the price and into the record.
START A PHARMACEUTICAL PROJECT
This is the same qualifying form the Custom Fabrication page uses, so your inquiry lands in the same place and nothing is duplicated. Tell us what the equipment is, what it has to hold and what documentation your quality group needs, and you get a real answer instead of a back and forth. If you would rather talk it through, call 541-330-6409 during shop hours.