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CNC Milling
Seven CNC machining centers. Up to 102″ of X travel on the long-bed vertical, and a horizontal that takes 86″ × 64″ work up to 10,000 lb.
DetailBirmingham, Alabama · Est. 1948
Parts that keep
the line running.
Jordan Machine Company machines precision components for steel mills, mineral processing plants and the builders of heavy industrial equipment. Employee-owned, with 17 CNC machines in Birmingham and the floor space and lifting to handle large weldments and castings.
Low volume, high mix · Up to 102″ X travel · Up to 10,000 lb
1948Machining since
100%Employee owned
17CNC machines
102″Max travel
Who we work for
Steel mills and
the people who
build for them.
Our parts run in steel mills, mineral processing plants, foundries and size-reduction equipment. Pump shafts, bearing housings, gland assemblies, liners, wear plates, rotor components.
We are a job shop. Most of what we run is one to ten pieces at a time, quoted individually, machined by people who set up their own work. We built the shop around that, and it is why we can take the complicated part with the tight fit and the awkward fixture.
It is also why so much of our work is rework and rebuild: components you already own, welded back up and machined to print.
What we do
The whole part,
start to finish.
Turning, milling, welding, keyseating, assembly, inspection and paint are all under this roof. A component can arrive as bar stock, plate or a rough casting and leave welded, machined, assembled, painted and inspected as one finished part.
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CNC Turning
Ten CNC lathes. Shaft lathes to 87″ between centers, a vertical turning lathe for large-diameter work, and live tooling with C and Y axis.
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Welding & Fabrication
We build the weldment and machine it ourselves, or finish-machine the fabrication you send. Stress relief goes out when a part needs it.
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Assembly & Finish
Bearings and bushings pressed, sub-assemblies built, parts painted, marked and crated. Components arrive ready to install.
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Sized for
mill work.
A lot of shops pass on the heavy weldment, the long shaft, the oversized housing. Those are the parts we are set up for.
- CNC vertical machining to 102″ × 32″ — long rails, frames, bars and multi-part table loads
- Horizontal CNC boring mill to 86.6″ × 64.9″ × 62.9″ taking up to 10,000 lb
- CNC shaft turning to 87.8″ between centers, 30.5″ swing, 7.1″ spindle bore
- Vertical turning lathe for large-diameter flanges, rings and housings
- Crane-served bays, so large weldments and castings come off the truck onto the table
Materials
The alloys
mill work runs on.
Heat-treated alloy steel in the 300s BHN, ductile iron castings, stainless that work hardens, bronze that loads up a tool. We quote them all, and the job gets a stress relieve between roughing and finish where the material calls for it.
- A36 & mild steel
- 1018 / 1045
- 4140 HT
- 4150
- 4340
- Tool steel
- Gray & ductile iron
- Castings
- 304 / 316 stainless
- 17-4 PH
- Aluminum
- Bronze
- Aluminum bronze
- Brass & copper
- Hastelloy
- UHMW & plastics
Customer-supplied material and castings welcome. We’ll also source to your specification. Mill test reports are kept on our material and supplied on request.
Rework · Replace · Rebuild
Worn out
isn’t scrap.
A mill roll, a pump shaft, a rotor, a chock assembly. Capital equipment components are worth far more than the metal in them, and when one comes off the machine undersize or damaged, replacing it is often the most expensive option on the table.
We inspect what you send, weld the worn surfaces back up and re-machine them to print. If the component is past saving we will say so and cut a new one instead. Assemblies come apart, get repaired piece by piece, and go back together here.
- Rework — hard-surface and build-up welding, then turned, bored and milled back to drawing size
- Replace — a new component produced from the worn original when repair isn’t the right answer
- Rebuild — full teardown, repair, reassembly and test fit of the complete unit
Scope. Mill, pump, foundry and size-reduction equipment. This is heavy
industrial work — we aren’t set up for automotive, small engine or consumer
repair.
Mill Stand Equipment
Mandrel support stands, screwdown and chock components, guillotine assemblies — levers, pins, bushings and cylinders replaced, housings re-machined.
Pump Components
Shafts and sleeves replaced, bearing covers and gland housings repaired, wear faces built back up.
Chocks & Assemblies
Chock lift assemblies, bearing pedestals and end plates — welded, re-machined for bearings and caps, reassembled.
Rotors & Wear Parts
Rotor ODs inspected, welded and machined back to rebuild print size; throat plates and breaker components hard-surfaced.
How a job runs
How a job runs
through the shop.
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Quote
Send a PDF, DWG, DXF, STEP, IGES or a solid model. An estimator who has run machines reviews it, flags any tolerance or callout that adds cost you don’t need, and comes back with pricing and a delivery date.
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Program & plan
We program from 3D solid models in Autodesk Inventor, SOLIDWORKS and SmartCAM, then build the workholding and tooling plan before a chip is cut. On low-volume work, setup is where the job is won or lost.
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Machine
Turning, milling, welding, keyseating and assembly on the same floor, scheduled as one routing. Machinists here set up their own work and inspect their own first piece.
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Finish
Assembly, paint and marking are in-house. Heat treat, carburizing and plating go to sources we schedule, ship and track. You buy the finished component.
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Inspect & ship
Inspection is its own operation on the routing, scheduled and costed like any other. Records are scanned and archived by production run, so we can pull the paperwork on a part we made years ago.
Who we build for
Hard-duty
industries.
Steel & Tubular Production
Mill-duty components for hot, heavy, continuously loaded equipment, where alloy choice and heat treat matter as much as the machining.
Mineral Processing
Slurry pump shafts, gland housings, bearing assemblies, liners and wear components for mining and aggregate equipment builders.
Size Reduction
Rotor components, knife and spacer sets, screens, anvils and shafts for shredders, grinders and granulators.
Foundry & Pipe
Machining of castings, mandrel and table wear plates, and the tooling that foundry and pipe production lines consume.
Nonferrous Processing
Components for copper, bronze and nonferrous metal processing operations, including the machines that handle and reduce the material.
Rail & Heavy Fabrication
Track and railway system components, lifting equipment parts and machining of large fabricated assemblies.
Sister division
We machine shredder
parts. We also build
the shredders.
Jordan Reduction Solutions is our sister division, designing and manufacturing industrial shredders, grinders and granulators for plants that have to reduce difficult material. Their machines are engineered, fabricated and machined in this building, so we know size-reduction wear components first-hand.
Employee owned
The people
running your part
own the company.
Jordan Machine has been 100% employee owned since 1997. Every machinist, programmer and inspector on this floor holds a stake in whether your job ships right and ships on time.
It also shapes how we hire. A generation of our machinists is retiring, and we are training the next one: people who set up their own work and read a print, and who plan to make a career of it.
Quality
Every part is inspected
before it ships.
Inspection is a scheduled operation on the routing, run to a program written for your part, with the records scanned and archived by production run.
RoutedInspection is its own operation
First ArticleBefore the run continues
ArchivedScanned records by run
NTMANational Tooling & Machining Assn.
Send us the hard one.
The part nobody wants to quote, the weldment that’s too big, the shaft with the fit that has to be right. That’s the work we like.