Ralph Eisenhuth

ralph@bandbwelding.com
Been with B&B Since Jan 1980

When Ralph Eisenhuth signed on with B&B, he just wanted to learn how to weld. Twenty-nine years later, he’d mastered just about every machine in the shop. Today, he’s the shop foreman. “B&B is home,” he says. “I’ve made it my home. I’ve worked hard, put a lot of time and I think I’ve helped make this company successful.” Ralph schedules and assigns jobs, orders materials, and does some billing. “My job,” he says, “is to get stuff done and get it out the door.”

Ralph has seen B&B transform itself from a four-man shop that welded structural steel and pipe work out in the field to an in-house, fully automated steel fabrication shop. “1994 was the transition year for us,” he says. A construction company approached B&B to fabricate steel for the HS Crocker building in southeast Baltimore. It was a challenge B&B couldn’t refuse. They built a new roof using structural steel I-beams and trusses. “We tried it,” Ralph says, “We succeeded and we went from there.” Today, B&B is a showcase for automation. They are Baltimore’s most automated shop. Says Ralph, “You really need to see B&B’s shop with your own eyes, see how complicated the fabrication of steel is today.”

“We are the best,” Ralph says. “We have the newest and latest equipment and we do quality work.”

updated 2009