There is a particular kind of pressure that comes with running an industrial facility in Mississippi. The equipment is heavy, the schedules are tight, and the margin for unplanned downtime is essentially zero. When something fails — a boiler weld, a structural connection, a component deep inside a system that has been running nonstop for months — the priority is not finding the cheapest fix. It is finding the right team, fast, and trusting that the work will hold.
That is the problem we built Steampunk Fabrication to solve.
When Curtis Dean Lofton founded Steampunk Fabrication in 2018, the goal was straightforward — build an industrial welding operation that Mississippi’s plants could actually rely on. Not a general shop that occasionally takes on plant work, but a team purpose-built for the jobs that matter: boiler welding, structural repairs, specialty processes, and the kind of 24/7 mobile response that plant managers need when they cannot afford to wait until Monday morning.
That is still exactly what we do.
What Our Certifications Actually Mean for You
We hold ASME, Avetta, ISN, Dekra, Drax, and Rex certifications. We are not listing those to fill space on a page — we are listing them because if you manage a facility that runs under a contractor management program, those names tell you something important before we ever speak.
Avetta and ISN approval means we have already been vetted. Our safety records have been reviewed, our insurance is confirmed, and our compliance documentation is in order. When your procurement team runs our name through their system, we come back clean. That removes friction from the process and gets your project moving faster.
Dekra adds an independent layer on top of that — a third-party verification of how we manage quality and safety, not just what we say about it ourselves.
And every welder on our team completes welding tests. In industrial welding, procedure qualification is what separates a contractor who can do a job from one who is qualified to do it. That distinction becomes obvious during an outage with a tight return-to-service window, or on a repair where a failed weld means a failed piece of equipment. We do not cut corners on this because our clients cannot afford for us to.
Boiler Welding Is Where Our Experience Shows Most
Of everything we do, boiler welding is where our depth is hardest to fake and easiest to see.
Mississippi’s industrial landscape runs on steam. The facilities we work with depend on boilers that operate continuously under pressure, heat, and stress. When those boilers go offline for a scheduled turnaround — or come offline unexpectedly — we need to understand not just how to weld, but how each specific boiler type behaves, where its failure points are, and what the return-to-service requirements look like from start to finish.
Our 60+ specialty welders are prepared to work across the full range of industrial boiler types that Mississippi’s facilities run:
– Recovery Boilers and Bark Boilers
– Power Boilers and Package Boilers
– Waste Heat Boilers and Spent Boilers
– HRSG Boilers
We also handle the supporting systems that surround them — Stokers, Evaporators, Cascades, Conveyors, DA Drums, Heaters, Air Heaters, and Bark Systems.
Having one team handle the full scope matters more than it might seem at first. Turnaround windows are short. When multiple contractors divide the work between them, delays happen, accountability gets murky, and small miscommunications become real problems. When we own the full scope, we own the outcome — and we move faster because of it.
Our Approach to Structural Welding
Structural welding in industrial settings is not decorative. It bears load, absorbs vibration, and in many cases sits between an operational plant and a serious safety incident. Equipment pads, support frames, platforms, mezzanines, piping structures — all of it depends on weld quality that holds up long after we have left the site.
We work with mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, using MIG, TIG, or stick based on what each specific job genuinely requires. We do not default to whatever process is fastest to set up. On structural work, that kind of shortcut shows up eventually — and usually at the worst possible time.
How We Handle Mobile Welding
Some of the most important welding work at an industrial facility never happens in a shop. Equipment that cannot be transported, repairs that need to happen in place, field modifications that have to be completed before the next production run — all of it requires a mobile team that is genuinely equipped for industrial environments.
Our mobile welding units are built for industrial site work, not residential jobs. We dispatch 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to facilities across Mississippi. When a repair needs to happen tonight, the conversation does not start with business hours. We built our operation around that reality because the facilities we serve are built around it too.
The Specialty Work That Requires a Different Level of Care
Not every welding job fits into a standard process. Some materials — stainless steel, aluminum, and others — require techniques and documented procedures that general shops are not consistently set up to handle. Some applications, particularly in high-temperature or high-pressure systems, demand a precision and procedure compliance that goes beyond everyday welding.
Our team handles specialty welding with the same standard of care we apply to boiler work — every weld tested, every procedure followed, every job documented. That consistency is not something we arrived at by accident. It is what working in certified industrial environments requires, and it is how we operate across every job we take on.
Why We Work the Way We Do
Industrial facilities rarely have a single welding need in isolation. A turnaround might involve boiler repairs, structural work, piping modifications, and field fabrication all happening inside the same window. Splitting that work across multiple vendors creates scheduling complexity, divided accountability, and gaps that nobody wants to own when something does not go as planned.
Our welding services work alongside our metal fabrication, process piping, and millwright capabilities for exactly that reason. When one team handles the full scope of a project, the job is simpler, the communication is cleaner, and the outcome is easier to stand behind.
We Are Ready When You Need Us
We operate out of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and work with industrial and commercial facilities across the state and throughout the Gulf South. With 60+ specialty welders on call around the clock, we are ready for scheduled turnarounds planned months in advance and for emergency callouts with no notice at all.
If you have a project coming up — or something that needs attention right now — get in touch with us directly. That is where it starts.
Contact Steampunk Fabrication today — because the work you need done should not wait, and neither should you.
