SHEET METAL FABRICATION
Our sheet metal fabrication services include cutting, forming, and finishing for parts, such as brackets, panels, and vents, as well as the turnkey manufacture of products, such as frames and enclosures. While we routinely work on small custom jobs, we excel at delivering low-mid volume production runs in tight timeframes — often weeks quicker than the competition.
We perform precision cutting using CNC laser, plasma, and water jet cutting machines and work with all grades of aluminum, carbon steel, and stainless steel. When required, we can also cut metal plate up to 6" thick.
Our CNC forming process starts with a SolidWorks model that is run through Metamation simulation software to calculate bends quickly and accurately. We then use a suite of Mitsubishi Diamond press brakes with a bending capacity of up to 200 tons to form metal sheets up to 4 meters long into the desired shapes.
Our precision finishing capabilities include high-grade shotblasting and stainless steel polishing, as well as powder coating, which we carefully monitor to ensure that coatings do not exceed specified tolerances.
PRECISION CUTTING
We specialize in the rapid precision cutting of mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. We provide metal cutting as an à la carte service but excel at providing customers with a turnkey solution for cut-and-formed precision metal products, such as enclosures, frames, panels, and vents.
We cut sheet metal using primarily automated CNC lasers with integrated material stacking systems to expedite production. Our lasers can handle carbon steel up to 1" thick, stainless to 0.5" thick, and aluminum to .375" thick.
For thicker carbon steel and stainless steel plate, we use our CNC plasma-cutting table, which can handle pieces of metal up to 40' long. We also employ a CNC water jet cutting table to cleave through metal up to 6" thick and to cut other materials such as titanium, inconel, plastics, natural and manufactured stone, rubber, copper, fiberglass, and wood, when a job calls for it.
CNC FORMING
Our staff is expert at CNC forming aluminum, carbon steel, and stainless steel sheet metal. Using SolidWorks and Metamation simulation software, we quickly calculate bends and ensure that our precision forming and bending is consistently done correctly the first time.
CNC forming is ideal for quick-turnaround production orders. Using a CNC brake press to automatically position back gauges and compute optimal bend sequences, we are able to form sheet metal to fabricate up to 1,000 products at a time, keeping costs low and speeding up production for these sorts of smaller jobs that simply can't justify manufacturing traditional deep-drawn dies.
We employ CNC forming as part of simple cut-and-form jobs. CNC forming also represents an integral step in our turnkey sheet metal fabrication projects, where we take a product from design to delivery, such as the enclosures, and tanks we produce on a daily basis for a variety of industries.
We have three CNC press brakes. Our largest, a Mitsubishi Diamond Elite XL model, has bending capacity of 200 tons and a maximum bending length of 4 meters. Our two other CNC press brakes, 135 and 40 ton machines, are also Mitsubishi Diamond models that can handle sheet up to 3 meters and 1.4 meters long, respectively.
FINISHING
We take our finishing as seriously as our cutting, forming and machining, specializing in precision powder coating and food-grade stainless polishes for the sheet metal products we produce. Our quality control staff carefully monitors the thickness of the finishes we apply for all products processed in-house to ensure all finished products meet specified tolerances.
Most of the enclosures we create for the air handling and distributed power generation industries require powder coating, which our experienced staff handles entirely on site in our finishing shop. Typically, a mid-sized enclosure will take 1-2 days to finish.
Stainless products such as cut, formed, and machined metal parts for food processing, marine and medical applications are polished using our vibratory finishing mill, which eliminates much of the handwork required for proper stainless steel finishes — particularly with pipes and tubes — to expedite production.
WELDING AND ASSEMBLY
Whether your job includes multiple welds or thousands of parts, our welding and assembly equipment and staff will deliver quality parts, sub-assemblies, and assemblies in record time.
For larger quantities of carbon steel, stainless steel, or aluminum products, our robotic welding system offers a cost-effective, time-saving solution. Providing top-notch weldments quickly, it can process hundreds of parts in hours.
For smaller jobs that can't justify the time and expense required to set up our robotic welding system, we also have skilled MIG and TIG welders on staff. Focused on quality and speed, our experienced welders can weld carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum to any standard.
ROBOTIC WELDING
Specifically, our robotic welding system is a Fusion Arc 300C three-station weld cell with a 6-axis Almega robotic welding arm. We originally acquired it to mass manufacture metal boxes used to house hydraulics system for minesweepers but today use it for a wide variety of projects.
MIG & TIG WELDING
For MIG welding, we can weld sheet metal anywhere from 22GA to ½" thick. For TIG welding, our machine of choice is a Miller Dynasty 350, which can weld aluminum up to ⅝" thick.
