Columbia Machine Works supplies graphite electrode handling equipment to steel mills across the entire United States and abroad.

Pictured is a completed electrode addition station used to make graphite electrode additions in the melt shops of steel mills.

Pictured is one of CMW’s Electrode Column Lifting Devices in use in a customer’s steel mill. The “ECLD” assists in moving the heavy electrode columns around the mill. Also pictured is a CMW Electrode Addition Station.

CMW has been manufacturing its own line of graphite electrode handling products for several years. Our products are in current operation in many steel mills across North America and the world. Pictured is one of our Electrode Addition Stations being utilized to make a “hot” addition, which is where the electrode segments are joined after one has just been pulled …