Metal fabricating services benefits
Midwest Metal Fabrication offers standard metal fabricating services with unique capabilities. We offer normal metal fabricating processes but, depending on the individual process, offer the ability to fabricate much heavier gauge materials, much larger workpieces, or other unique capabilities.
To learn about the benefits Midwest Metal Fabrication's customers derive from each of our fabricating or finishing processes, click on the links that follow.
Metal Deformation
- Bending/bar bending
- Bending/plate bending
- Brake forming/press braking
- Corrugated sheet curving
- Roll forming
Mechanical Reduction
- Band sawing
- Blanking
- Cutting grooves
- Drilling
- Grinding - centerless
- Grinding - cylindrical
- Grinding - surface
- Milling
- Punching
- Tapping
- Turning
- Milling
- Punching
- Tapping
- Turning
Painting and Surface Coating
- Air gun spraying
- Paint curing
- Dip coat painting
- Surface cleaning and preparation
Surface Preparation / Surface Modification
- Barrel tumbling
- Chemical degreasing
Thermal Joining / Welding
- Automated resistance spot welding
- Electric resistance spot welding
- Gas metal arc (MIG) welding
- Pulse-on-pulse welding
- Robotic welding
- Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
- Submerged arc welding (SAW)
Thermal Reducing
- Oxy-fuel cutting
- Plasma arc cutting
Deformation Fabricating Services Benefits
Bending/Bar Bending
Midwest Metal Fabrication provides bending fabrication services for flat or round hot rolled bar stock from 1/2"- 2" thick with up to 180° bends possible, increasing customer fabrication and design options.
Bending/Plate Bending
Midwest Metal Fabrication provides repeatable bending of light or heavy gauge hot rolled, cold rolled, stainless steel, T-1 and galvanized plate by using computer controlled hydraulic plate benders to produce circular cylinders, flattened cylinders, and corrugated cylinders with diameters that range from 15" to 20', ensuring that almost any customer unique plate bending specifications can be met, eliminating their time searching for a vendor.
We process flat or corrugated plate materials from 20-guage up to 7-guage with maximum dimensions up to 4' wide by 20' long using a unique 4-roll plate bender, eliminating the need for customers to have large rolled plate fabrications thermally or mechanically joined first, reducing costs and saving labor expenses.
Brake Forming/Press Braking
Midwest Metal Fabrication can press brake heavy-gauge parts or components up to 23' in length and up 1" in thick, eliminating the costs and difficulty of mechanically splicing or thermally joining large heavy-gauge structural parts or components and ultimately lowering the customer part production costs.
We use standardized tooling sets to produce components typically configured as “U“, “Hat", and “C" channels or common bends, saving customers' tooling development time and related costs.
Corrugated Sheet Curving
Midwest Metal Fabrication provides repeatable heavy gauge corrugated sheet curving services for metal fabricated parts or components up to 20' long x 4' wide x 1/8" thick, by using programmable CNC production equipment eliminating scrap due to rejects, while providing extremely large corrugated sheet curved parts or components hard to find anywhere else becoming a one-stop shop for heavy gauge fabricating services eliminating customers' Purchasing personnel's need to find multiple sources.
We produce complex radius bends by using 4-roll bending machinery, providing repeatable production of any combination of controlled bends, increasing customer fabrication and design options and improving their part or component's marketability.
Roll Forming
Midwest Metal Fabrication accommodates the market's need for most heavy gauge roll forming by processing materials from 0.010" to 0.250" thick and up to 30" wide, providing customers with a single source for small and large roll forming, reducing Purchasing hours identifying and managing multiple vendors.
We offer the unique ability to offset the end of a roll formed sheet, in-line, by using specialized production equipment, saving the time and labor to perform this function off-line, reducing fabricated part or component costs.
Mechanical Reduction Fabricating Services Benefits
Band Sawing (Vertical)
Midwest Metal Fabrication prepares mill sourced, bundled, round, tube, or bar up to 20' long and 12“ wide for processing by using a vertical band saw to make mitered, straight, or irregular cuts across the face of the material, saving the cost of a service center sourcing and preparing the materials for processing.
We prepare mill sourced sheet or plate up to 20" long, 12“ wide and 12" thick for processing by using a vertical band saw to make irregular cuts, or straight cuts across the length or width of the workpiece, eliminating the need to have an intermediary service center source and prepare the materials for processing, reducing overall acquisition costs.
Blanking
Midwest Metal Fabrication processes sheet or plate goods to up 23' long x 24" wide and up to 1/2" thick to create dimensioned blanks by punching, shearing, or cutting a series of predetermined sizes or shapes from the initial workpiece, eliminating the need to have an outside service create the required blanks, reducing process time and part costs.
We ensure that the maximum number of blanks can be created from the initial workpiece by using a part-nesting program, improving raw material per part yield and saving on material cost.
Midwest Metal Fabrication provides unique blanking capabilities for large heavy components by processing large sheets or plates weighing up to 18,000 pounds, reducing or eliminating the needs to thermal join sheets or plates prior to fabricating large heavy components.
Punching
Midwest Metal Fabrication cold punches holes in sheet or plate materials up to 1/2" if the punch size is 1/2" greater, reducing or eliminating through hole drilling or burning requirements, saving drilling or burning time and process costs.
Our punch process machine operators precisely place punched holes with a location tolerance of +/- 1/32" on sheet or plate goods up to 23" long" and 1/2" thick using advanced punching technology, reducing or eliminating punching rework time and costs.
Drilling
Midwest Metal Fabrication drills holes from a minimum of 1 " wide x 1 " long x 1/4 " high to a maximum of 10' wide x 10' long x 3' in steel or alloy sheet, plate, parts, or components using either straight or tapered shank drill bits, providing customers with a qualified source to complete most drilling requirements, saving sourcing and vendor management time.
Grinding - surface
Midwest Metal Fabrication provides surface grinding finishing services, providing a single source vendor for virtually all machining services, eliminating Purchasing vendor identification time and multiple vendor management costs.
Tapping
Midwest Metal Fabrication machinists cut threads into a cylindrical or flat workpiece by inserting the tap into a pre-drilled hole and mechanically rotate either the workpiece or tap to cut the required threads into the workpiece, eliminating the need to source this service from an additional vendor, reducing scheduling and production delays.
Our machinists use a variety of different style taps made of #1 or #2 high speed steel to ensure that the required holes are tapped true, eliminating rework costs.
Turning
Midwest Metal Fabrication machinists fabricate large metal pins or shafts with diameters from 1/2" to 6" with a maximum groove depth of 1/2" using the turning process to remove unwanted metal from bar stock, providing a single source to provide large scale turning services.
Milling
Midwest Metal Fabrication mill operators cut precision slots, square profiles, or similar configurations into a workpiece to produce custom milled components, ensuring that a customer's unique, heavy-gauge milling requirements can be handled by one source.
Cutting Grooves
Midwest Metal Fabrication machinists groove cylindrical components by rotating the workpiece on a lathe and manually applying a cutting tool to either groove or part the workpiece, providing individual part or component customization not available from most machining services vendors.
Painting and Surface Coating Services Benefits
Air Gun Spraying
Midwest Metal Fabrication personnel apply rust retardant primer, weldable primer, or finish coat to the workpiece, eliminating alternate vendor painting services, saving time and reducing costs.
We can satisfy extremely large workpiece coating requirements able to spray workpiece items that are up to 13' length x 13' height x 6" depth, ensuring large metal fabricated parts and components can be cost effectively spray coated, preventing rust, corrosion, and surface degradation, increasing useful part life.
Midwest Metal Fabrication has equipped our spray booths with down draft and dry filtration systems to control the booth's environment, reducing or eliminating coating defects and rework costs.
Dip Tank Painting
Midwest Metal Fabrication dip tank painters coat extremely large fabricated arts and components completely by fully submerging parts up to 13" wide x 10' long x 18" high, providing complete coverage, preventing corrosion and rework costs.
We can dip parts and components weighing up to 100 lbs. on our automatic dip line conveyor, reducing production time and labor costs.
Midwest Metal Fabrication dip tank painters utilize temperature and humidity controlled drying rooms or drying ovens to thoroughly cure coatings preventing coating bubbling or poor coating adhesion, eliminating coating quality issues and rework costs.
Surface Preparation / Surface Modification Services Benefits
Chemical and Mechanical Surface Cleaning and Preparation
Midwest Metal Fabrication personnel remove foreign matter from large workpieces up to 10" long x 5" wide x 6" high prior to coating, eliminating poor paint adhesion and bubbling and therefore, costly rework.
Barrel Tumbling
Midwest Metal Fabrication workmen using a horizontal barrel tumbling process to clean smaller metal fabricated parts or components up to 10" long x 10" wide x 2" thick leaving the parts or components with a coarse surface finish ready for painting, assembly, or shipment, reducing production lead time, effort, and expenses required to send parts out to an alternate vendor for cleaning.
Chemical Degreasing
Midwest Metal Fabrication cleans larger parts up to 13' long x 13' wide x 8‘' high using an automated conveyorized spray system to apply degreaser that removes greases, oils, and other foreign substances to the parts that are rinsed in three stages, andthen oven dried prior to painting, assembly, or shipment, reducing cleaning labor and part cleaning costs.
Thermal Joining / Welding Services Benefits
Gas Metal ARC Welding (MIG)
Midwest Metal Fabrication welders join steel or alloy components by using the MIG process to create uniform slag free welds, eliminating or reducing the need for secondary weld cleaning and grinding, thereby reducing overall costs.
Robotic Welding
Midwest Metal Fabrication robotic welding operators perform close tolerance repetitive welding work on components up to 30" long x 12' wide x 2'' thick using programmable robotic welders, improving welding accuracy and repeatability and reducing reworks costs.
Our robotic welding operators keep productivity high using rotating welding tables or pivoting robotic arms in production cells, minimizing welding costs.
Midwest Metal Fabrication quality control inspectors sample the first and last pieces produced on each production run, guaranteeing units produced during the run meet the customer's specifications, eliminating rework time and expense.
Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)
Midwest Metal Fabrication's welders join mild or high strength steels from 1/8" to 2" thick that require medium or deep penetrating welds using the shielded metal arc welding process, ensuring that a quality deep penetrating weld has been made.
Pulse-on-Pulse
Midwest Metal Fabrication's welders join steel parts together that require cleaner welds from 16 gauge to .250" using pulse-on-pulse welding, reducing welding spatter and increasing overall welding speed, which reduces welding heat and material distortion.
Electric Resistance Spot Welding
Midwest Metal Fabrication's welders join steel parts together from 24 gauge to 9 gauge using manual or automated electric resistances spot welding, eliminating the need for mechanical fastening costs.
Submerged Metal Arc Welding (SAW)
Midwest Metal Fabrication's welders join mild steel and alloy plates together from 14 gauge to 2" thick by using submerged metal arc welding, providing high-speed, high quality, welds, preventing weld fractures.
Thermal Reducing Fabricating Services Benefits
Oxy-Fuel Cutting
Midwest Metal Fabrication's oxy-fuel cutting operators simultaneously cut up to 3 identical components out of steel sheet or plate up to 8" thick using multi-head programmable flame cutting or oxy-fuel cutting equipment, optimizing the number of parts that can be quickly cut out of sheet or plate, reducing metal scrap waste and finished parts costs.
Midwest Metal Fabrication's oxy-fuel cutting process accommodates extremely large workpieces up to 40' long x 18' wide and weighing up to 2 tons out of single steel sheet or plate, eliminating the time and labor need to thermal join most large components, reducing overall part production costs.
Plasma Arc Cutting
Midwest Metal Fabrication's plasma arc cutting process simultaneously cuts to 2 identical components out of steel sheet or plate up to 1/4" thick by using a dual-head programmable plasma cutter, optimizing the number of parts that can be quickly cut out of sheet or plate, reducing metal scrap waste and finished parts costs.
Midwest Metal Fabrication's plasma arc cutting process controls the heat stress on the part or component workpiece using a fluid bed to absorb the process heat generated by the plasma cutting process, preventing the workpiece from warping or becoming otherwise distorted, eliminating the need to potentially scrap or rework a fabricated part or component.
Call us today at 1-219-931-3131, email us at sales@midwestmetalfabrication.com, or send a fax using 1-219-844-8512 to get a quick quote to help solve your heavy gauge steel fabricating problems.
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