Heat Exchanger And Bundle-Retubing

Fairtex Group provides heat exchanger and bundle retubing and repair services to various industries, including oil and gas, marine, petrochemical, power plants, pulp & paper, power generation plants, food & process water, breweries & wine production, paper mills, steel mills, marine vessels, and manufacturing facilities.

Bundle refurbishment presents many challenges, which can begin before the bundle is even removed from the exchange shell and continue through tube punching and expanding into the old tube sheet.

• Chiller Retubing


• Condenser Retubing


• Absorbers Retubing


• Lube Oil Cooler Retubing


• Boiler Retubing


• Heat Exchanger Retubing


• U-tube bundle retubing-replacement

Retubing services and expertise are available for carbon, stainless, and alloy straight bundles, U-tubes, and air cooler fin fan configurations. Our workshop has the capacity and specialized tube bundle refurbishment equipment to handle small bundles with a few thin-walled copper tubes up to large-diameter boilers housing several thousand tubes or header frames up to 6m wide.

Bundle refurbishment work undertaken by Fairtex Group Services team ranges from re-expanding or tube plugging to address minor leaks to complete bundle strip, cage, or header refurbishment, re-assembly, and hydro testing if required.

Condenser & Chiller Services offers a complete, on-site heat exchanger retubing service. We retube, service, and repair heat exchangers from most major manufacturers.

Our Technicians

• Remove damaged, corroded, or worn-out tubes


• Clean and prepare tube sheets


• Provide the replacement tubes you need (or work with customer-supplied tubes)


• Install new tubing


• Assist in pressure or hydro testing the heat exchanger


• Evacuate, charge, and restart the system


• Recycle old tubing materials and provide you with a salvage credit that can be deducted from your final bill

Fairtex Group Condenser & Chiller Services specializes in retubing centrifugal chillers, screw chillers, absorbers, U-tube steam bundles, and heat exchangers for all types of equipment.