I2r POWER Blog

Carpenter Technologies - Latrobe, PA Problem: The retrofit and rebuild of Carpenter Technologies’ dual station ESR furnace bus tubes took some finesse. The ESR is an older furnace built circa 1960, and consequently sourcing spare components and the craftsmanship to perform the work is difficult. Solution: The replacement bus tube components arrived at the customer’s…

Gerdau Long Steel - St. Paul, MN Problem:  Our customer’s existing DC reactor coils were beginning to leak coolant, and the OEM, General Electric, no longer supported the equipment. Gerdau Long Steel could not continue to operate their DC electric arc furnace with their existing coils, and were having difficulty solving their problem. Solution: The…

Congratulations to Jonathan Weaver, winner of the Virtual Metal Casters Drawing! On April 23 Jonathan’s entry was drawn live on Zoom. A member of the Engineering team at Rolls-Royce, Jonathan won an exclusive autographed Class of 2020 HOF collector edition football. Watch the video on the I2r POWER LinkedIn page. We look forward to seeing…

Terminals have met their match with our expert machinist Preston Flott and our comprehensive machine shop. Full machining capabilities on modern lathes and mills right here, in-house, expedite your power cable order. As always, your components are handcrafted using top-grade materials by skilled technicians for maximum power and to minimize loss. Have questions about this…

Open and available to serve I2r POWER meets the government qualifications of “Essential Business and Operations” and will remain open to serve our customers and partners. Sunday afternoon the Ohio Department of Health issued a Stay at Home Order requiring “All Persons Stay at Home Unless Engaged in Essential Work or Activity.” This order went into effect…

Doing all we can to keep your operations up and running Our sincerest thanks for the opportunity to serve you. As you are no doubt keeping yourself informed, we are also monitoring the latest reports from Ohio’s Department of Health, the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO).…

Back in 2005 when I2r POWER was in its infant stage, it was hard to imagine a teenaged company boasting about building more than 50,000 power cables. Shipped all over the world, the power cables built here (on the best cable repair line in North America) are for end users and OEMs, alike. Cables are…

Most construction failures are easy to identify—from the inside. The evidence is in the tear down. We see quite a few catastrophic power cable breakdowns, and unfortunately, symptoms are not usually apparent until after premature failure happens. Our experience has shown construction failures most often occur due to poor conductor bundling, an improperly sized and…