Specialized large scale metalworking, heat treating, machining and fabrication at Columbia Engineering Works.

Columbia Engineering Works (CEW) is Columbia Steel's machining and fabrication facility. It was created to handle the finishing of Columbia Steel castings and manufacturing of Columbia fabrications, but has grown in its capabilities and capacity to take on large scale projects from other companies.

A one source center. CEW combines the complete range of facilities and experience in a "one place" location in Portland, Oregon USA. Our 90-acre complex offers many benefits which bear critically on cost and delivery. You are freed from the headaches of coordinating different contractors and shuttling projects from shop to shop. Our service assures you of:

• High product value, proven by Columbia’s century of service to industry.
  
• In-house patternmaking for economy, prompt delivery, and challenging special projects.
  
• Full selection of materials and metallurgy offering the optimum combination of reliability and cost.
  
• Castings proportioned for best thermal management, resulting in soundness and uniform chemistry.
  
• Consultation on component design improvements.
  

Range of projects. We are prepared to undertake a broad range of projects which require iron or steel casting, fabrication and finishing. This includes manufacture of machinery bases, bearing boxes, retainers, rotating machinery components, press platens, mine and milling machinery, dredge machinery components, utility thermal plant pulverizer parts, and crusher maintenance parts, to name a few.

We also offer service on complete assembled subcomponents with interference fitting and advanced tool machining on high hardness materials, including martensitic cast iron.

We can combine heavy fabrication work with ferrous castings, weld assembled, stress relieved, machined and quality assured by non-destructive testing, to the highest industry specifications.