MLC Tool Company supplies, rents, services and calibrates the tools that make up a bolted joint — hydraulic and pneumatic torque, tensioning, flange management, lifting, rigging and heavy lifting, and the specialty gear for when a joint fights back. Eighteen years in the field, and a recommendation that follows the joint, not the catalog.
Most tool houses sell you a box. Most service shops fix what you already bought. We do both, plus the part in between — telling you which tool the joint actually needs and proving it held.
New tools across a dozen manufacturers, quoted against the joint you described — not against whatever line carries the best margin.
Local rental fleet of pumps, square drives, low-clearance tools and tensioners. Same-day and next-day out of Gonzales.
Repair, rebuild, and calibration with certification — so the tool that goes back to the deck is a tool you can document.
On-site setup, torque and tensioning procedure help, and training on the tools you just bought or rented.
We are TorcUP's top representative in the United States. We also carry everything TorcUP doesn't make, because a flange doesn't care whose logo is on the wrench.
Shaft and rudder couplings, engine hold-downs, deck machinery, hull module joints, flanged piping, and shipboard rigging — plus the salt-air problem nobody budgets for.
Turnaround support, heat exchanger and manway work, controlled bolt-up on critical service flanges, ASME PCC-1 informed procedures.
Flange alignment and spreading, valve and pig trap bolting, portable hydraulic power where there's no shop within an hour.
Structural steel and equipment anchor bolting for fast-schedule builds, with rental fleet coverage so the crew isn't waiting on a tool.
Repeatable bolt-up on modules that have to fit when they land, with load verification the QA package will accept.
Ship sections, modules, vessels and machinery moved and set with gantries, strand jacks, jack-up systems and skidding — where a crane pick isn't the answer.
Impact sockets, pivot pin removal and replacement, and torque tooling built for the abuse that shop tools don't survive.
Wrench, pump, sockets, tensioner, spreader, verification gear, rigging and the calibration behind it — from one vendor, on one purchase order, with one person answering the phone.
Eighteen years in bolting means we know when the answer is a tensioner instead of a wrench, or a $400 socket instead of a $12,000 tool. We'd rather be right than book the bigger line item.
Gonzales to Pascagoula is a drive, not a freight quote. When a shipment misses, we've put tools in customers' hands ourselves — on a holiday, more than once.
Calibration certificates, torque values, and procedure references you can hand to QA without a follow-up email.
Eighteen years of answering the same questions on the phone, written down with the math shown. Torque charts for B7 studs and graded bolts, a torque calculator, and field guides on tensioning, flange tightening sequence, hydraulic wrenches and seized stud removal.
B7, Grade 5, Grade 8, and metric 8.8 and 10.9, calculated with every assumption shown.
Read →When a hydraulic tensioner beats a torque wrench, and when it doesn't.
Read →Star-pattern numbering, PCC-1 passes, and the prep that makes them work.
Read →Bolt size, grade, target load, access, and what's fighting you. We'll come back with a recommendation and a number — usually same day.
