Eagle Factory

Experience
		Today Eagle Iron Works covers a 4-block area just north of the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa. Every machine sold is designed, fabricated, & assembled here at the Eagle factory. Eagle’s foundry and manufacturing facilities are improving through expansion and purchases of state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment.
		Eagle’s engineers, application specialists, and service technicians have the experience necessary to solve your most difficult aggregate processing applications. Eagle offers prompt engineering and design service for specialized applications, customer-specific requirements as well as complete plants alike. Eagle’s Application and Service personnel offer straightforward advice for equipment troubleshooting and sizing, as well as recommendations for maximizing production.
		Representative feed samples can be sent to Eagle for evaluation in our in-house laboratory for precise determination of Eagle equipment required to overcome the most challenging applications. A representative 10 lb. sample is all that is required for sand analysis or an examination of coarse material contaminates.
Factory
Eagle’s experience also benefits its manufacturing processes and techniques. There are no shortcuts or compromises on Eagle’s equipment. Eagle equipment and parts are built in such a way that they are prefit and match marked at the factory, thus making it possible to be installed in the field with minimum time and effort. Eagle also carefully engineers and builds standard units to the same specifications so that components and parts fit precisely together for fast equipment erection and interchangeable parts. Our full line of aggregate processing equipment is backed up by a massive warehouse which remains fully stocked with crucial operating parts and replacement wear parts, so that no customer faces unnecessary downtime
		Cast-Iron, Ductile-Iron and Ni-Hard castings are produced in Eagle’s own foundry. The ductile-iron castings await machining for end products such as; gear cases, gears-pinions-shafts, stub shafts, drive assemblies, etc. Eagle’s Ni-Hard wear parts offer superior resistance to wear due to a high-nickel compound that provides a 500-600 Brinell hardness.
		After castings are poured in Eagle’s foundry they are sent to Eagle’s machine shop. Here stub shafts, gears, gear cases, stainless steel wear sleaves, etc...are machined by experienced machinists, some with over 20 years of experience.
		Eagle’s strict quality control standards require that all Eagle gear reducers are pre-run, forwards and backwards, to check for any defects. Customers will also note a small tag attached to each reducer detailing the exact thousanths of an inch dimension that the shaft and reducer were aligned to provide the most efficient operation.
		Eagle’s welding department prides itself by the craftsmanship of its certified welders. The ample-roomed welding bays allow for multiple fabrication of 50’ long classifying tanks as well as fabrication for 100’ dredge ladders. All conveyor shafts feature submerged arc welding for the flights, paddle spuds, and flange ends. Conveyor shafts are then placed into a 50’ lathe to check and correct any distortion caused by the welding of the flights and paddle spuds. Flanges on both ends of shafts are then machined to insure the flanges are parallel.
		Eagle’s assembly department provides the final assembly of a machine’s components and performs the final quality control check before shipment. All machine components are prefit prior to shipping. Even the smallest components such as discharge chutes and washer supports are pre-assembled for proper fit. Structure for individual machines and complete plants are also prefit to minimize customer installation & erection times.
		More than 90% of all Eagle parts are manufactured in Eagle’s own foundry, machine shop, and fabrication departments. Machines are backed up by Eagle’s vast warehouse stocked with “Ready to Ship” parts to keep unforeseen downtimes to a minimum. Eagle also provides replacement parts for machines more than 50 years old, due to Eagle’s inventory of previous patterns for old castings and complete retrieval of past designs.