Our Services

METCO's dedicated professional staff is recognized by national and international standards for each of our specialized services offered.

INDUSTRIES SERVED

  • Aerospace
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing & Fabrication
  • Mining
  • Oil & Gas
  • Upstream (exploration & production)
  • Downstream (refineries, petrochemical & distribution)
  • Power Generation
  • Pulp & Paper
  • Rail

Inspection & Consulting

Consulting

  • ASNT Level III Services
  • Quality & Technical Capability Audits
  • Quality Management System Development
  • Training (ASNT, API and Safety)

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING SERVICES

  • (RT) Radiography (X-Ray, Gamma, Cobalt)
  • (UT) Ultrasonics
  • (MT) Magnetic Particle
  • (PT) Liquid Penetrant
  • (VT) Visual Inspection
  • (PMI) Positive Material Identification
  • (PED) Pressure Equipment Directive (Certified)

INSPECTION SERVICES

  • API 510, 570 & 653 Inspectors
  • AWS Certified Welding Inspectors
  • Third Party Inspection
  • NACE Certified Inspectors

PROJECT SERVICES

  • Project Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Project Site Management
  • Technical Staffing for On-Stream Programs
  • Technical Staffing for Turnarounds, Outages or New Construction
  • Vendor Surveillance
  • Expediting
  • Data Management

Laboratory Services

Metals Testing Services

  • Mechanical Testing
  • Tensile Testing to 120,000 lbs with Stress/Strain Disgram
  • Guided Bend Testing
  • Charpy Impact Testing to -320°F
  • Hardness Testing
  • Rockwell-HRA, HRB, HRC
  • Brinell-King, Tellebrineller, EquoTip, Pin
  • Vickers Microhardness-500 gram and 1Kg loads
  • Vickers Macrohardness-1Kg, 5Kg, 10Kg, 30Kg loads
  • Stress Relieving to 1600°F
  • Delta Ferrite by Fischer Feritscope
  • In-House machine Shop
  • Chemical Analysis
  • PMI (Positive Material Identification)
  • Portable XRF Spectroscopy

Weld Testing

  • Written Welding Procedures
  • Procedure Qualification
  • In-House Welder Testing and Certification
  • SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW Processes
  • Pressure Containing, Structural, Pipeline, Shipfitting Tests

Metallography

  • ASTM E112 Grain Size Determinations
  • Delta Ferrite Determinations by Point Count per ASTM E-562
  • Macrography
  • Micrography

Metallurgical Engineering

  • Microstructural Evaluation
  • Deposit Weight Density Determinations
  • Boiler Tube/Heat Exchange Tube Evaluation
  • Failure Analysis
  • Consulting

Extensive Metallurgical Experience in

  • Pulp/Paper
  • Petrochemical Process Metallurgy
  • Upstream/Downstream issues
  • Fully Integrated Metallurgical Lab with " of the art" Optics and Digital Photography

Other Services

  • Sales and Calibration of Process Gauges to 15,000 psi