CJM Insulation — the thermal crew
Industrial Insulation in Arlington, TX
Bare hot pipe is a bill you pay every hour it runs, and a burn hazard for whoever walks past it. We survey the line with an infrared gun, fabricate the sections and covers, and install the insulation and the metal jacket that keeps it dry — on steam and process pipe, tanks and vessels, autoclaves, chilled lines and the valves and flanges that have to come apart again.
This is the trade where the family connection actually shows up in the work: the jacketing is rolled and cut on the same benches as the steel. If insulation is all you need, CJM Insulation carries the material comparison and a calculator that puts a dollar figure on what a bare line is costing you.
What we wrap
Hot service: steam, condensate, hot water and process piping; storage tanks, reactors and exchangers; composite-cure and sterilisation autoclaves, including a removable cover for the door. Cold service: chilled water and cold process lines, vapour-sealed so they stop sweating onto the floor below.
Removable insulation blankets for valves, flange pairs, manways and doors — sewn to fit the actual fitting, so maintenance takes them off in minutes and puts them back instead of leaving the fitting bare forever after the first service call.
And re-insulation: stripping out insulation that is wet, crushed or missing (non-asbestos — suspected asbestos goes to a licensed abatement contractor) and rebuilding it the way it should have been.
Personnel protection, not just fuel
Two things justify a jacket. One is the fuel going up the stack, which is straightforward arithmetic once the line temperature and the run length are known. The other is the surface somebody can touch: bare steam pipe at 350°F burns skin on contact, and the accepted threshold for a touchable surface is around 140°F.
A correctly specified thickness handles both at once, and we hand over before-and-after surface temperatures so the number is on paper rather than in a sales pitch.
When it schedules
Insulation is the last trade on a mixed job for a good reason: it goes over equipment that is already installed, pressure-tested and signed off. Wrapping a line before it has been tested means cutting the jacket back off to find a weeping joint.
Most of the work installs with the line hot and running, so it does not cost you production. Tie-ins and removable covers schedule around your shutdown window — tell us when it is and we plan to it.
— What we offer
Pipe & process lines
Steam, condensate, hot water and process runs — sectioned, sealed and jacketed.
Tanks & autoclaves
Vessels, exchangers and autoclave shells, with a removable cover for the door.
Removable blankets
Sewn covers for valves, flanges, manways and doors — off for service, back on in minutes.
Metal jacketing
Aluminium and stainless cladding rolled and cut on the same benches as our steel.
— Our work
Finished work.
Project photos on request.
We’re photographing recent work for this page. In the meantime, we’ll gladly send photos of jobs like yours.
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Common questions
- Is this residential attic insulation?
- No. This is industrial and mechanical insulation — pipe, tanks, vessels and equipment in plants, shops and commercial buildings. Blown-in attic and wall insulation is a different trade and we do not offer it.
- Do you handle asbestos?
- No. Our removal work is non-asbestos only. If a survey turns up material we suspect contains asbestos, we stop and refer you to a licensed abatement contractor before anything else happens.
- Can you fabricate the jacketing and the pipe rack together?
- Yes — that is the shop next door. Racks, stands and supports come from CJM Metals and the jacketing is rolled on the same equipment, so both show up on one estimate and one schedule.Full answer
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
In our customers’ words.
Something running hot?
Tell us the line, the temperature and roughly how much of it there is. The walk-down with the IR gun is free.
What helps us prepare your quote
- List the trades your project needs: concrete, metal fabrication and/or industrial insulation.
- Send the job location, photos or plans, and the order in which the work needs to happen.
- Use one request for the combined scope. For a single trade, its CJM website has the detailed service and design options.
— Start your project
Tell us what you need built.
Tell us the basics. We’ll confirm the scope and whether a site visit is needed, then provide a written estimate.
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