by Ben Wiley | Apr 26, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, OEM
We won an award recently. We’re rather proud of that and prouder still that we’ve won it more than once. It’s not in our nature to brag though. Despite being told that talking about it would be good for business we’d rather just get back to doing what we do: serving...
by Ben Wiley | Apr 19, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, Sheet Metal Fabrication
Offcuts and scrap are inevitable in metal fabrication. Handled right, (which means with gloves,) they’re worth money. Handle them the wrong way and we’d be throwing money away, and who likes doing that? So for anyone interested in controlling manufacturing costs,...
by Ben Wiley | Mar 31, 2021 | Bending, Metal Fabrication, Sheet Metal Fabrication
Along with blanking/shearing and welding, bending is one of the core metal fabrication processes. After being cut from sheet metal or plate, pieces that need bending go onto a press brake. Having just added an American-made Accurpress Accell, we now have many...
by Ben Wiley | Mar 12, 2021 | High Precision, Laser Cutting, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business
Superhero movies are filled with characters who’ve been granted great power. Some, like Spider-Man, use it responsibly, others, (looking at you, Thanos,) not so much. Well, we won’t claim to be superheroes but we are about to gain a lot more power. In our case it...
by Ben Wiley | Jan 20, 2021 | Aluminum Extrusion, Extruded Section, Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabricators
A skilled craftsman makes a difficult job look easy. Take barrel-makers (coopers) as an example, or consider glass-blowers. And then there are aluminum extruders, (both the people and the businesses who do it.) We’d put them in that category too. After all, extrusion...
by Ed Wiley | Jan 19, 2021 | Future of Metal Fabrication, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, Sheet Metal Fabrication
As 2020 disappears in the rearview mirror many of us are wondering what 2021 has in store. Well we don’t have a crystal ball or the gift of second sight but it’s fun to speculate. It’s also important for our business that we do it. By anticipating what customers will...
