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In times of trouble we depend on firefighters
and rescue personnel to provide assistance.
But who do they depend on when they need
assistance, particularly when their equipment
is worn down or broken? In the areas around
St. Charles and Aurora, Ill., they depend on
Custom Welding & Fabrication...
www.thefabricator.com, 11/6/09
Glastender, a food service products manufacturer, takes bold moves
and expands during this historic economic downturn.
The FABRICATOR®, 10/7/09
An architectural metal fabricator takes a building-informationmodeling
(BIM) approach, using enhanced computer modeling to
streamline operations.
The FABRICATOR®, 9/1/09
Crimson Fire, a lean fire truck OEM, enjoys record orders, but prepares for challenges ahead.
By: Tim Heston - The FABRICATOR®, 4/14/09
At a time when companies are thinning the worker ranks, many people may be thinking about going into business for themselves. Pat Burrington, the owner of Rapid Creek Cutters, has worked for others and for himself. He recommends the latter.
By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager - www.thefabricator.com, 2/24/09
Shickel Corp., Bridgewater, Va., has a very diversified customer base, a strong manufacturing tradition, and a commitment to exposing youngsters to the exciting world of manufacturing. For all those reasons, this 70-year-old company is the recipient of The FABRICATOR's 2009 Industry Award.
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 2/10/09
When a metal fabricating company moves into a new, larger building, it has a great opportunity to take a hard look at production flow. Victory Industrial Products, Batavia, Ohio, did just that and the results were extremely powerful.
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 11/25/08
Memry has built a business around shape-memory alloys, mainly for customers in the medical arena. It’s a difficult, highly specialized field that managers at Memry are betting will grow.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 11/25/08
Greenheck has made a science out of quick lead-times. For most products, customers can place an order and receive a custom fabrication within three to five days, and sometimes in less than 24 hours.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 11/25/08
Managers, designers, and manufacturing engineers at Space Exploration Technologies have come up with a new way to design and manufacture a rocket.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 11/11/08
FSI Fabrication makes products that help farmers quickly and accurately transport feed, grain, and other material.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 10/14/08
Overseas, metal fabricators have many of the same issues as those stateside, including lack of skilled labor and outsourcing to low-labor-cost countries. In Japan, fabricators tackle those issues by taking automation to new levels.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 10/14/08
Lori and Traci Tapani, co-presidents of Wyoming Machine, aren't your typical metal fabrication managers. Together, they've managed to diversify their family business into a thriving, stable enterprise.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 8/26/08
Ultra Machine & Fabrication, through significant capital outlays, has built an infrastructure ready to complete in the heavy plate market.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 8/26/08
Oceaneering's structural fab operation has built “dark ride” vehicles for theme parks around the world. It has custom-fabricated and erected aluminum components for a mammoth advertisement overlooking Times Square. It has welded a structural mount that holds up the recovered World Trade Center anten...
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 8/12/08
Developed during the 1960s by MIT graduate students, the staggered-truss system avoids the use of interior columns to transfer loads to the foundation; instead, trusses themselves carry the brunt of the load transfers. More than anything, the steel design method has potential to take various hotel, ...
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 6/17/08
California electronics stamper Scandic Springs Inc. faces challenges of stamping ever-shrinking electronics components as well as stamping larger parts, such as enclosures.
By: Kate Bachman, Editor - www.thefabricator.com, 6/17/08
Columnist Gerald Davis reveals the usefulness of unfolding parts on the computer screen.
By: Gerald Davis, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 6/16/08
Mazworx, a shop that rebuilds engines for racing, fabricates custom parts for racing upgrades, and works on compact cars to prepare them for racing, is also involved in racing. The belief is that it can build up its reputation for racing parts through appearances at NHRA sport compact races througho...
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 5/13/08
Indianapolis-based Estes Design and Manufacturing has made significant strides in adopting manufacturing-friendly information technology, marrying enterprise resource planning (ERP) and scheduling software to ensure work flows efficiently through the shop.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 5/13/08
M&M Vehicles Corp., Mexico, Mo., is less a car company and more of a fabricating shop. That’s been the case from the beginning when Chris Miller and another employee cut diamond-plate aluminum sheet with a Skil saw blade turned backwards and then hand-bent the sheet to form boxes that graced those e...
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 4/15/08
Mid-West Metal Products, Muncie, Ind., has perfected work flow through ERP and the company's virtual manufacturing plan.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 3/11/08
Rob Marelli left a family-owned metal fabricating company four years ago with the intention of doing things his way. Joined by a loyal group of managers and employees, he's found success at Seconn Fabrication. In the short time the company has been open, it has earned revenues of $9 million. And the...
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 2/12/08
Sargent Metal Fabricators, Anderson, S.C., is not your average job shop. In an economic climate in which many U.S. fabricators have suffered, the company has stayed focused on its goals, invested in new equipment, grown by leaps and bounds, and positioned itself for future growth. How? By conce...
By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager - www.thefabricator.com, 10/23/07
Robert Warnett didn’t take many vocational classes in school, never spent much time reading about welding or fabricating, and never had a job in a shop. However, he made quite a few friends in the fabricating industry and made a hobby out of fabricating. Being a hands-on type of guy, he has capitali...
By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® - www.thefabricator.com, 10/9/07
While other automotive suppliers are struggling or going under, Tier II supplier of ride control components Tennessee Stampings established a lean program that merited a regional manufacturs' award and helped them grow 23 percent per year.
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 8/8/07
Glenn Metalcraft Inc. started out as a tool and die shop in Minneapolis in 1947. Today it is an $8-million-a-year contract manufacturer that has created a niche in spin-forming circular and conical components up to 0.750 in. thick. Glenn has found a high-volume niche, producing wheels, brakes, and o...
By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® - The FABRICATOR®, 4/10/07
With the recent increases in gasoline and natural gas prices, more attention than ever is focused on alternative energy sources. One fabricator, Aerisyn LLC, investigated manufacturing towers for use in the wind power industry. To produce towers efficiently enough to compete against imports from Asi...
By: Sue DiBianca - The FABRICATOR®, 3/13/07
Family-owned Hansen Steel Services started six years ago with a 600-ft. long empty building and a combined 144 years of experience and built it into a thriving job shop that shoulders large plate fabrications.
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 2/13/07
Structural steel shops book jobs by the shop hour. More jobs lead to more hours and inevitably longer delivery times. In many instances, just-in-time deliveries in the structural business can be measured with calendars, not stopwatches. Suburban Steel Supply Co., Gahanna, Ohio, tries not to fall int...
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 12/12/06
When Crystal Distribution Inc., a manufacturer of curb adapters and related products, was challenged by the logistics of its facility, President Pat O'Brien had three choices: lease a different building, buy a different building, or build a new facility. Deciding to build a new facility made the mos...
The FABRICATOR®, 12/12/06
Take a look at Bauer Welding & Metal Fabricators Inc., a company that thrives on difficult bending applications. It stays away from the hypercompetitive portion of the bending industry—4D to 5D bends in medium-wall-thickness tubing, applications that don’t require a mandrel—and gravitates toward tig...
By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® - www.thefabricator.com, 12/12/06
Although custom welding fixtures may be just one of Ed Sauvola's current jobs, it has become one of the main business opportunities he is pursuing while deciding which track is best for his one-man shop.
By: Stephanie Vaughan, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 11/7/06
The fortune of Custom Tool & Mfg. Co. changed last year with a cold call from a representative of MFG.com. After signing on for the Web-based service, the fabricator is finding several fabricating jobs to bid on each week.
The FABRICATOR®, 10/10/06
Small and midsize companies demonstrate that business can be successful without compromising quality or responding to demands of a grow-or-die mentality.
www.thefabricator.com, 8/8/06
QC Metal Fabricators of Elkhart, Ind., witnessed improved scheduling and shipping with the implementation of new job shop management software.
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 6/12/06
Lights. Camera. Fabricate?! You get home from work after fabricating all day, kick back with a cool one, and turn on the tube just to see … more metal fabrication, on-screen, as entertainment. If it’s not "American Chopper" or "Monster Garage," it's "Biker Build-Off," "Monster House" or "American Ho...
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 4/11/06
Newspapers and business magazines are filled with stories about offshoring, layoffs, and plant closings. Quasar Industries, a prototyping and low-volume production shop near Detroit, has bucked this trend and recently increased its manufacturing capability when it purchased a new building. A diverse...
By: Eric Lundin, Senior Editor, and Amanda Carlson, News Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 4/11/06
While some stampers are filing for bankruptcy, Alpha's lean manufacturing initiatives have propelled the Detroit-based stamper to a $50 million-dollar company and growing
By: Kathleen McLaughlin, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 12/13/05
Sumitomo Metal Mining USA (SMMU) Inc. has supplied cathode ray tube frams to some of the largest, high-end television manufacturers in the world from its Oceanside, Calif., facility. Despite the trend in moving manufacturing overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor pools, SMMU believes it is pois...
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 11/8/05
Contract manufacturer Morton Metalcraft talks about how it faces challenges in fabricating weldments and assemblies for heavy-duty equipment, including ramping up after a slowdown—with machines, manpower, and material, and revising material flow.
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 11/9/04
Using his experience in the manufacturing industry, Don Wainwright plans to help improve the U.S. manufacturing industry through his position as chairman of the Department of Commerce's newly created Manufacturing Council.
By: Stephanie Vaughan, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 10/12/04
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By: Steve D. Benson, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 9/14/04
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By: Stephanie Vaughan, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 7/13/04
A South Louisiana fabricator believes success in his fabricating endeavors involves a pride in workmanship, a passion in the craft, and perseverance in being the best. After 11 building expansions, Don Begneaud can say he has found a winning business philosophy.
By: Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief - The FABRICATOR®, 4/6/04
During the depths of the manufacturing slowdown that has cost the fabricated metal products sector nearly 300,000 jobs since 2000, Steven Southwell, president of Des Plaines, Ill.-based Nu-Way Industries Inc., faced a depressing challenge from one of his multinational OEM customersâ??either meet the...
By: Scot Stevens, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 1/13/04
The average lifespan of a family-owned business is 24 years, and 60 percent of family-owned businesses do not have a clear succession plan. Tell that to the Peddinghaus Corporation and you might be in for a big “Oh really?” In business for 100 years and with a Peddinghaus still at the helm, the fami...
By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager - www.thefabricator.com, 12/11/03
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