One-stop means:
Product Engineering
Specialized product engineers handle application engineering, design and automated drafting. We design to our high standards, always looking for improvements.
Foundry engineering and patternmaking
We design patterns to ensure proper metal flow and cooling for best part integrity, and we make all patterns in our own experienced pattern operation.
Molding and coremaking
These departments work closely to make dimensionally accurate olivine sand molds of the most intricate hollow section and thick section iron and steel castings.
Metallurgy and melting
We have developed our own high specification proprietary alloys, and ensure their composition using computerized spectrometer sampling up to the moment of pouring.
Foundry and pouring
Our foundry has two 10-ton and one 4-ton electric arc furnaces, and six 1,000 to 2,200 lb. induction furnaces. We can pour parts weighing up to 40,000 pounds.
Casting cleaning
Cast parts are shaken out of the molding sand, which is recycled. They then have risers removed with a hydraulic grapple and hammer system, and are surface ground as needed.
Heat treating
Our fourteen heat treating ovens use computer controls for optimum temperature rise and holding time. A pump-driven recirculating water system assures proper quenching.
Machining
Columbia Engineering Works, our 70,000 square foot facility, is one of the largest industrial machine shops in the western United States. Specialized fixtures are used to apply our high carbide Xtend Process® overlay.
With over 100 years of experience in the manufacture of wear parts, we’ve been an innovator in reducing the cost of wear from abrasion and impact in many basic industries. 
As a closely-held private company, Columbia Steel prides itself on its many long term relationships with customers. When you buy from us, you know that we can deliver, and that we will still be in business down the road when more parts are needed.