Pacific Pipe Company

Founded in 1906, Pacific Pipe Company is a leading supplier of pipe and pipe bending services. In addition to our extensive inventory of pipe, valves, fittings, and flanges, we offer a range of unique custom pipe bending and coiling services. Located in Oakland, CA with sales offices in Sacramento, CA and Reno, NV, we are proud to be a part of construction projects worldwide. You can contact us by mail, phone, fax, or email. Let us know how we can help you on your next construction project.

Pacific Pipe Company was founded in 1906 by Mayhelt Jacobs, following the San Francisco earthquake and fire, at Main and Howard streets in San Francisco near the Embarcadero. The initial business was recovering, reconditioning and selling used steel pipe.

In the early 1920's a new plant was opened across the bay in Oakland which became the new base of operation. Pacific Pipe grew steadily on both sides of the bay and in the 1930's the Company became a distributor of new pipe to complement the used pipe business. During World War II Pacific Pipe added fabrication of piping components and steel plate work for the booming shipping industry of the San Francisco Bay supplying installed pipe for the Kaiser shipyards at Richmond.

After the war the Company continued to grow as more and more suppliers added their product lines. Fabrication also expanded from the shipping industries to include refineries, utilities and chemical process industries

With the passing away of Mayhelt Jacobs in 1952 Pacific Pipe continued under the direction of his son, Ellis H. Jacobs. Since then the company has grown to include three pipe yards and a large distribution warehouse. The company's fabrication branch also grew in leaps and bounds as more and more bending and fabrication equipment was added, including the addition of a separate steel fabricating plant, East Bay Steel Products in Berkeley, California.

As our Fabrication expertise grew, so did the demand for creativity. The custom jobs we worked on demanded unconventional equipment. So, aided by our unique engineering staff we soon began to manufacturer our own fabrication equipment for these one of a kind jobs. Equipment including such homemade oddities as a hydro testing machine that could test pipe up to 60" and generate 1.5 million pounds of force, a Square tube machine that would transform round pipe up to 20" diameter into square structural tubing, a PVC slotter that could slot 42 cuts in one sweep and a large tri-roller, dubbed "The Manhattan Project", that could cold bend 12" pipe (at the time an impressive achievement).

Among our more memorable jobs are sections of the Alaska Pipeline; the bent sections of the vacuum chamber for the Positron Electron Project; the movable bleachers in Candlestick Park and New Orleans Stadium; the bent piping and tubing in the San Francisco Museum of modern art's skylight and Catwalk; and the Bent square tubing in Oakland's Jack London Square Amtrak Station.