 efi facilities
Location: Our plant and offices are in
the Cocoa Bee-Line Industrial Park; ½ mile north of
the Bee-Line Expressway (SR. 528), and ½ mile west
of U.S.1. We are also on the Florida East Coast Railroad.
Heavy Industrial Fabrication and Large
Machining Capabilities: EFI
has the facility, equipment, and manpower to build
small to very large machined parts, fabricate light to
heavy weldments and to provide precision installation of
motors, bearings, shafting and other power transmission
equipment. We also build, install, wire and test a wide
variety of 3 phase motor control panels, solenoids, limit
switches, etc. for the variety of equipment constructed in
our shop.
Railroad Spur: We have installed a railroad spur of the
Florida East Coast Railroad that dead ends 150 feet inside
the plant. EFI has shipped five overhead cranes via rail,
each weighing 150,000 pounds with an average length of 112’.
Each of these shipments required one main car and two idler
cars.
Plant Area: The building is a Republic
Steel metal building with a 30’ high, 330’ long,
and 65’ wide
clear span. There are 5 bridge cranes; 20 ton capacity, 10
ton, 5 ton, 3 ton and 2 ton as well as several 2 ton jib
cranes. Additionally, there is a 120’ long x 65’ wide
steel storage area with its bridge crane transporting steel
into the plant. Total length of crane runways is 450’.
Inventory: EFI stocks a full compliment
of structural, mechanical and electrical components for overhead
cranes. Seven day delivery of cranes up to 10 ton x 60’ span
is readily available.
Fabrication Area: The plant has a number
of EFI designed and built specialized pieces of equipment
that contribute to highly efficient and accurate construction
of bridge cranes and fabrication of large steel weldments.
These include EFI’s “Charmin” box
girder assembly and semi-automated welding machine, EFI’s “Scorpion” traveling
weld and work station, swing
out 3 ton capacity monorail system and traveling type
large assembly bed beams.
Burning Department: The oxy-acetylene burning table is 40’ long
x 9’ wide with 6 torches for stripping and one cross
travel torch. This machine is capable of cutting cambers
in plates (for cambered box girders). We typically flame
cut these plates with a 2-mile radius for camber. We have
burned plates to build box section girders up to 96” high
by 36”wide, up to 132’ long, weighing as much
as 60,000 pounds.
 Welding
Department: We have 5 wire feed welders for steel
and one for aluminum. One gas powered MILLER DC Welder and
three stick welders. One of the welders is mounted to the
Scorpion traveling workstation and
two are mounted to monorails. EFI has performed a considerable
amount of welding for NASA, Lockheed, the U.S. Navy, TVA,
Boeing, etc.
Fit-Up and Assembly: EFI has built many
different types of equipment over the last 42 years. These
include: overhead traveling electric bridge cranes from ½ ton
to 40 ton; cab, floor or radio controlled up to 130’ span,
ground support equipment for NASA and most major aerospace
and airline companies. Some of the more notable items include
engine stands for the RB211 Rolls Royce engine, thrust reverser
stands and other specialty items: 600 ton capacity box girders,
special equipment for aluminum smelting plants including
80,000 pound capacity conveyors, 100,000 pound capacity transfer
cars, special imprinting equipment, ground support equipment
for the Kennedy Space Center including an 18,000 pound device
used to rotate the Space Shuttle satellite payload canister
from horizontal to vertical and special heavy duty load beams.
Machine Shop: The machining area consists of 3000 square
feet of floor space and its own 2-ton gantry crane. The other
cranes also cover this area.
There are 3 Milling Machines:
- 4” horizontal floor type planer mill which has
approximately a 4’-6” vertical and 24’ horizontal
travel. This machine is used for facing, drilling, and
boring. It also has power feed all directions and rapid
traverse in two directions.
- 4” vertical Mill
- Bridgeport milling machine
There are Three Lathes:
- 16’ x 4’ with
taper attachment, 5 horsepower
- 18”/30” x
5’ heavy duty engine lathe,
10 horsepower
- 24”/48” x 13’ heavy duty
engine lathe, 10 horsepower
Bridgeport Milling Machine: with power feed on longitudinal
table travel
Two Drill Presses: one is an 8’ radial geared head
drill that works over an 8’ planer table so that large
or small pieces can be clamped down for drilling and tapping.
One is a variable speed Clausing ½” capacity
with tee-slot table.
Cutting to length is accomplished on a Kalamazoo Horizontal
Band Saw and a Buffalo Ironworker. The Ironworker has several
special features: it can shear flat bar, angle up to 4 x
4 x ½, punches, copes, notches, and has special devices
to limit distortion during shearing on both the angle and
the flat bar shear. There are also set-up tables for the
coper, notcher, flat bar shear and punch.
Hydraulic Press: with two cylinders; one for broaching keyways
and the other is a 100 ton Enerpac with 6” stroke.
Each cylinder is operated by a special separate Enerpac pump.
Electrical Department: Three phase panels
are designed and built on site including reversing starters,
variable frequency controls, wound rotor primary and secondary
controls, eddy current brakes, limit switches and safety
devices for machines having several motors. We prepare our
own electrical engineering and schematic drawings. We have
in-house UL certification of our control panels available.
Prep and Painting: EFI has a large Wheel-a-Brator
for cleaning beams up to 38” deep as well as small
steel parts. This provides for excellent paint application
on our cranes and runway systems.
 
EFI has several airless and conventional spray systems for
applying a wide variety of coating systems. We can provide
high-performance epoxy and urethane outdoor coating systems
as well as shop coat primers and alkyd enamel coatings.
Shipping: EFI has a 2007 Freightliner and
2 flatbed trailers. The trailer is expandable
from 48 to 81 ft long, allowing us to carry loads up to 101’ long
under our blanket permit. Possession of this equipment allows
us to ensure all shipments arrive safely and on-time
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