Metal Fabrication

Metal fabrication is defined as creating products or structures by cutting, bending, and/or assembling metal material. It’s largely considered a value-added process as it consists of putting together actual products or structures from metal raw material.

Metal material can be used for manufacture and assembly, it still needs to undergo different types of metal fabrication techniques. These processes can vary, depending on the purpose of the metal, but they can nevertheless be found in a number of structural, industrial, or decorative applications.

There exist a number of fabrication processes and are oftentimes used in combination with one another. These methods can be either one or more of the following: cutting, metal stamping, extrusion, casting, and the like. Likewise, these fabrication techniques are designed to highlight a metal’s properties and showcase its versatility in application.

Industrial Metal Fabrication

As you likely can already guess, industrial metal fabrication is the process of integrating various parts or assemblies — typically made from sheets or plates — into industrial products.

Industrial fabricators typically serve industries such as aerospace, alternative energy, material handling, pollution engineering, water treatment, automotive, and more. The products they create are usually very large in scale and often include the likes of tanks, silos, and heavy machine parts.