“Big jobs like a paper mill, power plant or data center are typically fast paced with tight schedules,” says Jim Forbes, lead engineer at Coenen. “Unless you have a way to really be efficient, it’s hard to compete for that work.”

And Forbes knows first-hand. Recently, the team at Coenen landed a contract for the mechanical work at a large paper mill being constructed in northern Wisconsin.

When construction began, Coenen had field crews on-site, installing pipe. “As we were making it, they were putting it in,” he says. To stay on pace, the pipe department back at the home base in Appleton produced 10,000 pipe spools in the span of 10 months. Without the PC900RB, the company might have only been halfway through the required material within that same timeframe.

“If it weren’t for that machine, there’s no way we could have hit that kind of volume within the deadline,” he says. “The benefit of the new equipment just for that one project was huge for us.”