Metal Fabricating - Providing What We've Needed Since Before Recorded Time

It's hard to think of many things that predate ancient• Large and Heavy Machining
history. However, one such thing is the practice of• Large Metal Fabrications
metal fabricating. Metalworking and metal fabrication• Machine Frames
have been a necessity for us humans since• Metal Bending
sharpened sticks and rocks just couldn't cut it• Metal Forming
anymore.• Plasma Cutting
It is thought that some of the first practitioners of• Stainless Steel Fabrication
metal fabrication where the ancient Egyptians who• Welding
used metal working for the creation of gold jewelry.Today, metal fabricating processes like plasma cutting
While gold is found in nature and requires little workstand apart as an aspect of the craft that would
to form and mold, eventually it was discovered thathave been inconceivable to the earliest metal
ore and heat could be used to accomplish more. Withfabricators. In the same way, the sheer size and
that knowledge, even today archaeologists findvolume of metal fabrications produced in contract
remnants of ancient mines all over the world.manufacturing would boggle the mind of anyone but
Since its very humble beginnings, metalworking andmodern man.
metal fabrication began to grow in complexity andUsing state of the art technology such as computed
scope. Civilizations continued to innovate and discovernumerically controlled (CNC) machining tools,
new methods and materials to create the metalcomputer aided design (CAD), and specialty metals
products and metal fabrications that they needed. Alllike hot rolled steel, aluminum, and stainless steel,
of that innovation has lead to the present day,modern metal fabricators are producing larger and
where metal fabricating continues to be innovated,more intricate fabrications every year.
and the scale and complexity are centuries ahead ofCombine all of that modern technology with quality
where they began.control and the complexity of modern metal
But what does Fabricating Involve Today?fabrications and you get something the metal
Think of all the things surrounding you. Everythingfabricators of the past never would have expected -
that contains metal could have once been a simpleabsolute perfection.
piece of ore, a product of the earth heated, bent,From the smallest metal components for electronics
cut, and formed to create a product that we canto large fabrications like aircraft components and
use. With the same general principles used thousandsbuilding frames - you can be sure that metal
of years ago, metal fabricators today take the rawfabrication and contract assembly have come a long
material and transform it into the products and toolsway. From before even the earliest recorded history,
that we need.with simple gold jewelry and slowly fabricated
Those ancient efforts to join things together havemachines and weapons to the present day, with
led to...more complexity than they ever could have imagined.
• Aluminum Fabricationmetal fabrication continues to move and produce like
• Contract Assemblynever before.