After a year off, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing event is back in person and ready to move forward. Here's a breakdown of what to expect.

The city of Chicago and state of Illinois have seen enough adults get the COVID-19 vaccine. That means McCormick Place is open for business and FABTECH 2021 will happen Sept. 13-16.

When the folks of Pacific Pines Ranch began constructing their shipping container home in a mostly remote area of Oregon, they did so with little metal fabrication experience. Here are the five biggest challenges they’ve faced while building off the grid.

Metals industry leaders believe steps need to be taken to restore the might of domestic metals production and increase opportunities for manufacturers.

Finding the right workers has been a major concern for metal fabricating company owners and managers for several years, and it’s only gotten worse with the manufacturing economy roaring back in recent months. Careers in Metal Fabrication, a new FMA e-book, can help fab shops fine-tune their hiring message as they look to develop the next generation of manufacturing workers.

The Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act will bring increased demand for sheet metal components. Here are the opportunities you can expect—and how to prepare for them.

A section bending machine also can help metal fabricators create spiral forms.

Metal fabricating at the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is a bit different than in a typical job shop.

The FABRICATOR’s Industry Award winner for 2021, Laystrom Manufacturing Co., works to improve its internal culture, which leads to external successes at its Chicago precision metal fabrication shop.

Like everything else in 2020, the pandemic has dominated the metal fabrication industry. That includes this year’s most popular content on thefabricator.com. But it wasn't all doom and gloom. Our most read articles and blogs include stories about how metalworkers powered through with essential work and helped fight the spread of COVID-19.

Bloomington, Minn.,-based Dalsin Industries has earned The FABRICATOR’s 2020 Industry Award for its ability to remain successful and evolve as the metal fabrication market has changed.

This past October the Still Building America series celebrated its fifth anniversary. Detroiters Josh and Darla Welton have been interviewing up-and-coming skilled tradespeople, manufacturing entrepreneurs, fabricators, blacksmiths, machinists, welders, hot rod builders, and metalworkers across the U.S.

Veo Robotics’ CEO Patrick Sobalvarro told The Additive Report that FreeMove turns industrial robots of any size into cobots.