Newsletter September 23, 2009 Share
Albert Paley Sculpture | Busy Summer | Now on Facebook | Meet Eli!
Our Largest Fabrication Job Yet!
Albert Paley Sculpture for the Clay Center, Charleston, WV
For a few years now, Maple Grove Enterprises has been sandblasting and coating sculptures by renowned metal artist Albert Paley. This summer, he hired us to fabricate his latest commission: a monumental abstract sculpture for the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia.
It's been an incredible journey. Starting in April, we constructed a concrete pad for work on the sculpture. At the same time, the steel for the project arrived on flat beds, and completely consumed our parking lot. Our guys had to inventory thousands of pieces of steel, and the employees had to find parking wherever they find an open piece of field.
Throughout May, June and July, we were bending steel, grinding off imperfections, and welding the components together. By August, it was time to erect the entire sculpture at our site. Once we and the Paley crew were convinced that the sculpture was finished, we disassembled the piece and shipped it to West Virginia.
Our crew was hired to assemble the sculpture at the Clay Center. With our experience in assembling it here first, our guys were able to have the entire sculpture erected in only 9 days. The completed sculpture, named "Hallelujah," stands over 64 feet tall and weighs nearly 200,000 pounds!
You can view photos of the entire process on our new Facebook page. And while you're there, sign up as a Fan!
Find out more about our metal fabrication services
Busy Summer at the Grove
Between spending months fabricating the new Paley sculpture for the Clay Center, replacing buckets and spouting on a feed mill in Pennsylvania, refurbishing transport trailers, repairing a thickener tank, fabricating cyclones, and tearing down buildings at a salt plant in New York, we have had an incredibly busy summer here at Maple Grove Enterprises. We wouldn't want it any other way!
Now that fall is here, it's time to prepare for the colder months. Maple Grove Enterprises, as your complete facility maintenance solution, offers practically any service you need to keep your business humming throughout the year: mill and plant repairs, concrete floor repairs and coating, truck and trailer body work, tank refurbishment, sandblasting and coating, and many other services.
Our schedule fills up quickly this time of year, so make sure to call us soon to schedule your repairs for the holiday season!
Contact Us Now to Schedule Your Repairs!
Become Our Fan on Facebook!
Yes, Maple Grove Enterprises is getting in on the social networking scene with our own Facebook page!
We have tons of great items on our page, including photos of the Paley sculpture project and other recent jobs, postings of equipment for sale (the latest: a brand new Stahl truck bed and Dustex industrial dust collection equipment), and a link to YouTube to see a video of our excavator at work, equipped with a thumb that we fabricated here in our shop.
MGE Corner
Congratulations to our estimator Rachel Bookmiller and her husband Ken! They became new parents on September 7 with the birth of Elijah. He made his appearance a month before expected, but both Eli and his mom are doing great.
