Alexander Mechanical, Inc. is a full-service mechanical contractor and fabrication company. Alexander Mechanical has a reputation for providing solutions for industrial and commercial customers nationwide. The Alexander management team has over 50 years of combined experience in all phases of mechanical work. Our team has become experts in completing quality projects on time and within budget. By specializing in Commercial, Industrial, and Federal projects, we are proficient in what we call our Design, Build and Maintain approach to every project.

Bill Alexander
Owner, CEO

As President and CEO of Alexander Mechanical Inc. William (Bill) Alexander is committed to the mechanical contracting industry. He founded Alexander Mechanical in 1998 after a twenty-two-year career as a journeyman pipefitter, and a member of Pipefitters Local Union 533 in Kansas City, Missouri.

As Alexander Mechanical has become the success it is today, Bill has remained active in his local community and as a family man. He is passionate about the subsequent generations succeeding in the mechanical contracting industry and lends a helping hand whenever needed.

The Business Challenge:

"Entering into 2020 our pipe fabrication volume was growing and we wanted to become more efficient," said Bill Alexander, Owner and CEO. "Simply put, we needed to cut more pipe and we needed to do it more quickly. At that time the majority of pipe we were fabricating and installing was 12" OD or less."

"Our situation was actually quite simple," continued Alexander, "to keep up with the fabrication demand we had to automate our systems. Because of our involvement with MCAA, I was aware of Watts-Specialties. Our local Watts Rep did a very good job of promoting their product so we visited a company with a Watts machine and immediately realized that this would help us to grow our fabrication output and our company."

The Watts Solution:

"In 2020 we purchased and installed a Watts W-122 CNC pipe cutting machine with a 25' feeder roller bed," said Bill Alexander. "We immediately saw an increase in our pipe cutting ability. This was perfect timing; our pipe fabrication began to increase just as we had expected. Not only did our actual pipe cutting become more efficient, our material costs improved as well."

"Prior to having the W-122," Alexander continued, "we kept a very large bin where pieces of scrap went in case we needed a 3ft pipe. The Watts machine, running on their 3D-Profile Plus software, reduced our scrap pieces to almost nothing.

The software maps out the cuts for the job and optimizes the cuts to minimize waste. We probably save 100 feet of pipe every month due to the efficiency of the Watts machine with the pipe cutting software."

Bill Alexander continued: "As we approached 2023 our fabrication jobs continued to increase. In addition we started getting jobs calling for larger pipe. Many of our fabrication projects called for pipe that exceeded 12" and even 20" OD. We needed another machine that could handle up to 24" OD."

"We looked at a larger machine of a competitor," Alexander said, "but the service we received from Watts and the reliability of our first machine made the choice easy. We decided to get a Watts W-244 machine. This has increased our flexibility and efficiency once again. Honestly, I really had not appreciated the value of having a 6 axis cutting head until the new machine was operating. We had to manually change the angle of the torch head with the W-122 machine. The W-244, with the 6 axis cutting head, does everything controlled by the software and the machine. Hit "Submit" and that machine moves through multiple cuts, adjusts the cutting head angles and makes the cuts in minutes, depending on the cuts."