Alphatec Engineering

Market insight: The global rotating equipment MRO market is projected to reach $20.4 billion this year, largely driven by the aging infrastructure crisis hitting plants worldwide. 📊
(Source: Business Research Insights, April 2026)

The $20bn MRO trap: is it the machine or the foundation? 🤔

High-tech sensors and spare parts dominate the conversation. But a significant proportion of unplanned mechanical failures are symptoms of foundation failure, not the machine itself.

Decades of service take a toll that even a well-run maintenance programme can miss:
⚙️ Sub-base contamination: Oil and process chemicals degrading your concrete integrity over time.
⚙️ Dynamic load fatigue: Micro-fractures causing that gradual, hard-to-diagnose alignment drift.
⚙️ Bond failure: Loss of effective bearing area between the baseplate and the foundation.

If you are replacing expensive pumps or motors but bolting them back onto a compromised base, you are not fixing the problem. You are resetting the clock on the next failure.

Alphatec helps operators escape the repair-fail-repeat cycle through Foundation Rehabilitation. Break the cycle. 🛑

Reach out to discuss foundation rehabilitation.

Alphatec's technical paper on epoxy grout and compressor foundation performance has been published in COMPRESSORtech2. 📊

"The Role of Epoxy Grout in Enhancing Compressor Foundation Performance" examines how foundation condition directly affects compressor reliability, and why epoxy grout specification matters more than most maintenance programmes account for.

COMPRESSORtech2 serves maintenance engineers, reliability professionals, and operations managers across the global gas compression industry.
Read the full article here:

Tech Corner: Epoxy grouts and foundation performance A paper presented at EFRC by Summer Browne, Jack Nicholls and Juan Carlos Diaz of Alphatec Engineering