Steel Fabrication is where sheet metal is manufactured to create specific shapes. This is done through welding, folding, shaping, and cutting. The usual size of a metal being fabricated is a quarter of one inch or lesser, since this size can assume and create different shapes easily.

Steel fabricators on the other hand are people who are skilled and trained to manipulate steel with highest precision. Most of the time, due to shortage of fabricators, companies outsource this kind of job.

Steel/Metal fabrication requires different kind of planning and strategy before fabricators commence work. The process of fabrication is far more complicated than taking a drill bit into a sheet – there is bidding, back and forth reporting and communication with their clients, bidding, metal sourcing, metal ordering and adjustments.
Steel Fabrication
The parts that may be included on the process are:

  • Castings
  • Fittings
  • Hardware
  • Wire for welding
  • Formed metal
  • Expanded metal
  • Plate metal

The additional parts vary on the kind of work required.

Benefits Of Steel Fabrication

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Steel has demonstrated many great qualities, longevity, structural strength and aesthetic qualities to name a few. And with the continuous production of new alloys, all these qualities are improving continuously. There are many benefits this process can offer, and to name a few, check on the below:

  • Superior strength: the strength of metal is undeniably strong, particularly to resistance from being pulled separately and high tensile power, hence making it highly useful for screws, cables, wires and other kinds of hardware. All these great qualities of metal are paired to metal being easy to bend, drill, shape and manipulate
  • Steel is far stronger compared to plastic: Steel’s main competitor plastic, can be useful but unfortunately just to limited extent. Steel is stronger, more resistant to different elements of wearing and more durable. Plastic when exposed to heat may melt but steel won’t, as they are known to handle different levels of temperatures
  • Fabrication versatility: Steel is highly capable to undergo different kinds of manufacturing processes, like chipping, peening, soldering, welding, casting, forging, deep drawing and a lot more, making it capable to produce a wide range of geometrics and metal shapes feasible. There is absolutely no limitation steel can offer hence very capable to solve any requirements today and even in the future
  • Cost efficiency: If you need production in huge quantity or volume, steel is undeniably the most cost efficient. Machine shops are capable replicating procedures and creating huge runs of products for a cost that is relatively small and affordable.

With all the benefits mentioned above, business owners and homeowners should not forget about the metal fabrication presence in the industry of building construction, automobiles, hardware and tools, laptop and smart phone shells, kitchen hardware, electronics and gadgets, aerospace, and medical. Steel/Metal fabrication is basically everywhere and is very useful to everyone and there is absolutely no reason at all why would you not take this option