API Inspection · Third-Party Welding QA/QC · Southwest Virginia

Inspection you
can build on.

API 510, 570, and 653 inspection and independent welding QA/QC from a certified inspector who spent fifteen years making the repairs before signing off on them. The result is oversight that protects your equipment, keeps your work code compliant, and gets your people back to production sooner.

API 510 Pressure Vessels API 570 Piping API 653 Storage Tanks API 577 Welding & Metallurgy AWS CWI Certified Welding Inspector
Why it matters

Experience the report cannot fake.

Most inspectors learned this equipment from a code book. Ours learned it with a hood down and a grinder running. That background changes what gets caught, because knowing how a repair is actually made is what tells you where it tends to go wrong. You get findings that hold up, recommendations a crew can actually execute, and a documentation package your jurisdiction and your own inspector will accept without a second trip.

  • Vessels, piping, and tanks inspected to API 510, 570, and 653
  • Independent welding QA/QC to ASME IX, B31.3, and AWS D1.1
  • Repair and alteration oversight from plan to signed record
  • Reports written to be understood, referenced, and defended

See how we handle repairs

15 yrshands-on welding before the inspector card
5 certsAPI 510, 570, 653, 577, and AWS CWI
1 callthe inspector who quotes it is the one on your site
Services

Three ways we protect your equipment.

For owners & plants

API In-Service Inspection

Pressure vessels, process piping, and aboveground storage tanks inspected to API 510, 570, and 653. Externals, internals, thickness monitoring, and the records that keep your mechanical integrity program current and defensible.

  • Scheduled and turnaround inspections
  • Corrosion monitoring and interval review
  • Small-shop response, big-shop rigor
For any project

Third-Party Welding QA/QC

Independent AWS CWI inspection with real accept and reject authority. Procedures, welder qualifications, fit-up, in-process, and final acceptance verified to ASME IX, B31.3, and AWS D1.1, and reported clearly.

  • Procedure and WPS / PQR review
  • Welder qualification verification
  • Clean, code-referenced documentation
The specialty

Repair & Alteration Oversight

Code repairs guided from the repair plan to the signed record by an inspector who has made these repairs firsthand. That is how a job passes the first time instead of getting done twice.

  • Repair plan and procedure review
  • Hold points that protect the work, not stall it
  • Documentation that stands up to review

Full service detail

For contractors

Bid the code work.
We back the quality.

Plenty of capable shops have the welders to make a code repair but no one on staff who lives in ASME IX. That gap is exactly what we fill. Bring us in before the bid and the code jobs stop being the ones you have to turn down.

  • A pre-bid read on what the code actually requires
  • Procedures and welder qualifications squared away up front
  • In-process checks that keep rework off your ticket
  • A finished documentation package handed to the owner
The pitch, plainly

Independent QA/QC wins bids.

Owners award work to the contractor they will not have to watch. Showing up with third-party inspection already in your corner answers the quality question before your competition has finished reading the spec.

Talk through your next code job

Who you are hiring

Boilermaker stock.
Inspector's credentials.

Appalachian Integrity comes from a long line of boilermakers and welders. Fifteen years on the tools came first, and the API and AWS certifications came after. That order is the whole point. It means the person reading your repair reads it the way the person making it does.

More about John Wright

Coverage

Based in Southwest Virginia.

Serving mills, plants, and contractors along the I-81 corridor, including Southwest and Central Virginia, East Tennessee, Southern West Virginia, and Western North Carolina. Pulp and paper, chemical, power, and general manufacturing.

Somewhere just outside that line? Ask. Small shop, quick mobilization.

Tell us what you are looking at.

A vessel, a line, a tank, or a repair you cannot afford to do twice. Describe it and you will get a straight, useful answer, fast.

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