Among the variety of products marketed by steel fabricators are steel kitchenware, which can be found in many people’s homes, and steel gardening products, which are used by consumers as well as commercial property managers and landscapers. Steel reinforcements and wire are used in the construction of buildings, bridges and other large structures. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Maysteel Industries, LLC
Allenton, WI | 262-251-1632Maysteel provides complex sheet metal fabrication with a focus on design for manufacturing. Founded in 1936, we combine our extensive engineering experience and market knowledge with an expanding supply chain footprint, allowing us to fabricate products that others can’t. We design, engineer and manufacture custom OEM sheet metal enclosures, kiosks, cabinets and racks. We have locations in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as partnerships in Europe. For more information, visit www.maysteel.com.
Auburn Industries
Auburn Hills, MI | 248-377-0377At Auburn Industries, we strive to provide our metal fabricated parts on time and without defects, every time. From prototype to production, our extensive experience includes aerospace decking, slider decking, scaffolding, frames, platforms, and more. If it’s made of steel, stainless steel, or aluminum, we can manufacture it! Contact us today and let us put our experience to work for you.
Chicago Metal Fabricators
Chicago, IL | 877-400-5995Let Chicago Metal Fabricators custom fabricate your metals for you! If you need plate rolling, CNC punching, welding, laser cutting or any other metal fabrication done, give us a call. We can handle anything from components to 30-ton assemblies and have been since we started in 1908.
Mainstay Manufacturing
Brownsburg, IN | 317-975-1056Mainstay specializes in precision metal fabrication. State-of-the-art capabilities include 4000 watts of flat laser cutting, 30 tons of CNC punching, 130 tons of precision 6 axis back gauge bending. Linear stock processing and welding services are also available. We are ISO 9001:2015 Certified. Visit our website today!
Product Fabricators, Inc.
Pine City, MN | 651-674-0007Up-to-date metal fabrication technology, Product Fabricators offers the highest quality manufacturing when doing metal fabricating. From start to finish we offer aluminum fabricating, stainless steel fabricating, copper, & tin. Cutting, punching, forming & bending to 0.200" thick, we offer short - long runs. If given the chance to save you time and money, we will try our best. We guarantee it!
Automotive components, auto bodies, airframes, marine vessels and other kinds of vehicles can all feature steel in their construction. The steel used for each of these applications must, before it can be used, be refined from iron ore and alloyed with carbon and other additives. Some steel fabricators may be involved with this process, but most are involved with the forming processes that follow.
After becoming steel, raw steel must be shaped. Because a given metal shaping process cannot produce all varieties of metal shapes (the process that produces metal wire cannot also produce metal sheets), many processes are necessary to produce the range of metal products in use today.
The long list of contemporary metal fabrication methods includes roll forming, press brake bending, punching, stamping, welding, laser fabrication and many more methods. Once a collection of raw steel has been engineered to the right specifications, it is usually formed through a rolling or bending process.
Rolling is a popular steel forming method because it can simultaneously shape and strengthen the metal as it is processed. A roll former is composed of a long series of rollers into which raw steel is directed. The first set of rollers is designed to fit snugly around the contours of the steel, drawing the steel in as they turn.
In some cases, the rollers can be designed to compress the steel, which can strain-harden the metal, making it stronger. Each subsequent set of rollers' configurations differ slightly from the previous set, and the steel's shape changes with those configurations. By the end of the process, the steel has taken the shape of the last set of rollers, emerging as a newly-rolled product.
Other fabrication methods like press braking are less complicated as well as less automated. A typical press brake can create one bend in once piece of metal at a time, and they are often manually operated.