Industrial dismantling

What we dismantle

• Rail infrastructure

  Rail, steel sleepers, wagons and retired rolling stock.

• Oil and gas

  Pipe, tanks, process structures and platforms.

• Industrial plants

  Plant buildings, machinery and production lines being retired.

• Steel structures

  Bridges, towers, warehouses and civil works structures.

• Marine assets

  Ships, barges, tugs and port equipment, including abandoned or sunken ones. See ship recycling and abandoned and sunken boats.

We work in every state of Mexico and also assess projects abroad.

How a project runs

1. 01

   Assessment

   We review photos, drawings and documents, and visit the site to check access, the condition of the structure and what is inside.

2. 02

   Plan and permits

   Cutting plan, schedule, written offer and whatever permits the municipality and the type of work require.

3. 03

   Safe preparation

   Before the first cut, fuels, oils and waste are removed, and anything that needs special handling is identified.

4. 04

   Cutting

   Section by section, in the order of the plan, with the safety measures each work front calls for.

5. 05

   Sorting and recovery

   Steel is sorted by grade, non ferrous metals are kept apart, and reusable equipment is recovered whole.

6. 06

   Removal

   Every load leaves weighed on a certified weighbridge, with a ticket and photo, travels with a CFDI and the Carta Porte 3.1 supplement¹, and the operation is invoiced with a CFDI 4.0.

What the owner provides

• Proof of ownership of the property or the structure. In Mexico City, for example, the demolition licence requires it².
• Photos and drawings, if they exist: structure, equipment, substations and tanks.
• What was inside: what was processed or stored, and whether there are oils, transformers, hazardous waste, old insulation or equipment with a radioactive source, such as thickness or level gauges.
• Access and hours: entry for trailers and cranes, and which areas are still running.
• A contact on site who knows the facility and can authorize shutting off power, gas, water and steam.

What Mexican law requires

There is no single dismantling permit. What applies depends on the municipality, on what the facility held and on the type of work. These are the rules checked on every project.

What gets checked before cutting

• Containers and pipework. Anything that held fuel or flammable substances is not cut as it is: the welding and cutting standard requires specific controls for work on containers⁸.
• Radioactive sources. Gauges with a radioactive source, such as thickness gauges, can be left behind on a demolition site and end up in the scrap if nobody flags them¹⁰.
• Transformers, capacitors and oils. They are identified and removed as waste before cutting⁵.
• Stability. The cutting order is planned so nothing is left unsupported. In Mexico City, the demolition licence comes with a programme that sets the order of the stages².
• Old insulation and coatings. They are identified in advance and removed by whoever is authorized to handle them.

The metal is paid for

The steel and non ferrous metals that come out of a dismantling job have value, and they are paid for. The price comes from the type of material and its grade, the real net weight on the weighbridge, distance and access, and the weekly market reference, and it is itemized in the offer. See scrap metal prices and steel grades.

Every load keeps its weighbridge ticket, its CFDI and its Carta Porte, and steel and stainless lots carry an impact certificate. See impact.