Steel Fabrication Contractors

The following are the five different types of fabrication:

• Cutting - This is one of the most commonly used fabrication processes in the market. Here, sheets of metal are split into halves, thirds or even smaller sections. Many types of machinery can perform cutes, from lasers to plasma torches and other more high-tech machinery.
• Folding - Folding is where a metal surface is manipulated into shape at specified angles. It is a more complicated process that may only be performed in facilities that are equipped with high-tech and specific equipment. Although, more often than not, when a fold is needed, joining two metal panels at certain angles is actually a more practical alternative.
• Welding - This is another popular metal fabrication process that involves the joining of separate metal parts. This application will need any parts that are made of metal, including sheets, panels, bars, shapes etc. Many tools can be used for welding. Most of the time, it is done through the application of heat on the points where the two pieces are joined together.
• Machining - It’s a process that uses a machine to remove portions from a piece of metal. Usually, the process is done on a lathe, which rotates the metal against tools that trim corners and edges to cut the metal down to the desired size or shape.
• Punching - This process places metals under a dye and submits it to a punch-through by a drill, thus the name punching. Punching has two subcategories, (1) by punching holes into a panel of metal to fasten brackets or foreign parts, and (2) by blanking where the whole area is explicitly separated from the bigger panel to shape a smaller bit component.
• Shearing - This is the process used when sheets of metal require long cuts. Some applications feed the sheet through a metal-cutting machine horizontally, while others are applied vertically against the whole length of a flat metal sheet.
• Stamping - This process is used to form specific shapes, images or letters within a metal sheet or a panel. It’s similar to relief carving in wood or marble. Examples of stamping are coins where currency amounts, words or faces of presidents are stamped on each surface.
• Casting - An old type of metal fabrication where molten metal is poured into a mould and then left to solidify in a specific form. It is a flexible method of fabrication that is ideal for a variety of complex shape-making.