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Aluminum Bridge Decking Provides New Solution for Industrial Flooring

Ann Arbor, MI – AlumaBridge Aluminum Decking isn’t just for vehicular bridges. It’s the perfect replacement for deteriorating factory floors and new industrial applications that require very high load capacities. AlumaBridge Factory Floor Panels are lightweight, prefabricated, and modular for easy installation. Corrosion resistant aluminum reduces maintenance and is 100% recyclable. Skid resistant coatings are also available.

“We recognized the attributes of AlumaBridge decking also deliver an excellent flooring solution for factories, warehouses and other industrial applications,” says Greg Osberg, AlumaBridge President & CEO, “while providing a safe, sustainable and economical alternative to steel, concrete and wood.”

Recently, AlumaBridge supplied panels to a large manufacturer that needed an elevated floor capable of supporting forklifts with each tire exerting a load of 35 kips. The existing floor was positioned above a number of levels consisting of mezzanines, walkways and mechanicals that support manufacturing. Welded steel plates served as the riding surface for forklift traffic. Forklift loads caused some welded plates to crack and buckle, requiring repair of the floor surface as well as repair to damaged forklift tires and undercarriages. AlumaBridge Factory Flooring panels can solve these types of problems with a minimum of downtime and loss of productivity. Moving forward, the AlumaBridge solution provides a smooth safe riding surface that will not crack or buckle, thus reducing future maintenance.

AlumaBridge has also supplied prefabricated panels for a nuclear power plant application where load capacity is also key. In this case, large panel assemblies must be periodically removed to perform maintenance on critical systems below. To improve this process, replacement of heavier decking with lightweight AlumaBridge decking will make handling more efficient, thereby reducing downtime and improving productivity for every future cycle of maintenance.

AlumaBridge aluminum panels on Marine Parkway Bridge

AlumaBridge Aluminum Deck Panels Installed on Marine Parkway Bridge – NYC

NYC – Initial AlumaBridge Aluminum Deck Panels have been installed on the Marine Parkway Bridge in New York City. AlumaBridge, LLC supplies deck panels complete with a skid-resistant surface.

When it was built in 1937, the bridge’s vertical lift span was the longest in the world for vehicular traffic and remains the longest in North America today.

AlumaBridge Aluminum Decking Installed in Reconstruction of Browns Park Bridge in Colorado

Moffat County, CO – AlumaBridge Aluminum Decking and support beams have been installed on the Browns Park Bridge. The project presented unique challenges in that the bridge is a swinging bridge spanning a lengthy 320 feet. As with most bridge rehabilitations, deck weight is critical.

Florida DOT Testing Successfully Completed

The Florida DOT has successfully completed testing of AlumaBridge Aluminum Decking. The evaluation included detailed inspection, structural testing, heavy vehicle simulation, and wearing surface tests. Lightweight aluminum deck panels were subjected to 600,000 passes using the heavy vehicle simulator at the FDOT State Materials Office. According to the final report, the weld detail for the test specimen can be considered to be within the infinite fatigue life stress limit.

AlumaBridge Completes Fabrication of Aluminum Bridge Deck for Ministry of Transportation – Quebec

Ann Arbor, MI – AlumaBridge, LLC of Ann Arbor, MI has completed the successful fabrication of an aluminum bridge deck for the St. Ambroise River Bridge in Quebec, Canada. Two large panels, each measuring 32.9’ (10040 mm) x 12.3’ (3750 mm) x 8.0” (203.2 mm) deep, were required. The deck was shipped on December 10, 2014.

AlumaBridge has Fabricated and Shipped 5″ Deep Aluminum Bridge Decking to the Florida Department of Transportation.

The new 5″ deep bridge deck system is designed to replace steel open grid. Corrosion resistant decking from AlumaBridge offers a solid riding surface and the preferred weight neutral solution to replace steel grid decks on moveable and fixed-span bridges.

Aluminum Bridge Deck Design Solutions to Meet Current Challenges Faced by State DOT’s

Sandisfield, MA — An aluminum bridge deck installed in 30 minutes recently in Massachusetts by AlumaBridge LLC may herald a solution for many of the country’s estimated 130,000 bridges in dire need of repair.