Eckel Products and Services

Drilling and Completion - Eckel Hydraulic Power Tongs

Eckel a leading world-wide manufacturer of hydraulic power tongs was founded in 1958 by Emery L. Eckel. He revoultionized hydraulic power tongs with a design that was inittially chalked on the floor. Since then Eckel manufactures over 40 models of hydraulic power tongs for the oil & gas industry. We offer a full line of hydraulically operated drill pipe tongs, casing tongs, tubing, backups, hydraulic power units, and tong positioning equipment.

Eckel tongs have been engineered for the high operational torques today’s premium connections require. Eckel tongs continues to advance the technology of tool service and setting industry standards.

• Improved crew efficiency by simplified operational use tongs. Such has our easy to open and close Radial Lock Door and speed shifting Hydra-Shift® technology for speeding up turnaround time between connections.
• Integrated safety door interlock, patented cam biting, quick change slide heads
• Die technology for steel and CRA tubular's retains your tubular investment.
• Eckel’s Tri-Grip Backup provides unparalleled backup performance and is one of the industry’s closet mounting backups to the tong to minimize pipe bending. The backup utilizes three biting surfaces to insure a secure grip on the tubular that prevents tubular rotation.

Eckel Heat Treating

Heat treating is one of the most important steps in the production of a part, providing a combination of hardness, strength, and toughness. Eckel in-house heat treating insures Eckel tong parts are properly hardened to meet our high quality standards. Eckel operates six large batch ovens 24 hours a day that have a maximum temperature of 1800° degrees and 8,000 pound capacity. The ovens have internal quench protected atmosphere for part uniformity and advanced dual tube generators which provide 98% uptime with automated dew point control.

In addition to heat treating our parts we also offer heat treating service to the industry. Our goal and commitment to our customers is to provide high quality, fast turnaround, at a competitive price. We specialize in custom processing of all jobs, large or small, and we have the capabilities to perform a wide variety of heat treating services.

We heat treat parts for the following industries:

• Minining & Drilling Operations
• Agriculture
• Oilfield Equipment (Reams, Tong Parts, Slips, Dies and Blowout Preventer Parts)
• Compressors (Valves, Seats, Rods, Pistons)
• Tools (Tool Steel Applications)
• Automotive