If you offer metal fabricating, laser cutting, stamping, and/or other metals manufacturing services, it may seem conterintuitive to consider outsourcing your key services to other manufacturers – even to competitors. But lets explore three situations when outsourcing...

It looked like we would finally fill our open machine operator position. The applicant not only showed up for the job interview but showed up on time. He'd said he had experience as a machine operator. Our management team was silently high fiving each other. We'd...

We've been expanding our slate of in-house metalworking services over the years to offer more and more value to our metals manufacturing customers and take direct control over the quality of our custom metal parts and finished products. But just because we now offer...

When evaluating metal fabricating companies and getting quotes for metal fabrication work, there is usually a fair amount of communication up front as the customer makes sure the metals manufacturer can and will do the job exactly as intended, and the metal shop makes...

Metal fabricators usually focus their time and energy on buying just the right lineup of machinery to serve their customer base, on finding and training staff, and producing top quality metal parts on spec – plus building new business is a constant. But we've heard...

When searching for quality metal fabricators as manufacturing partners, it's easy to check their equipment lists to figure out if the machinery in-house matches up with your needs. Got fabricating, bending, laser cutting, and welding? Ok! But it's not quite as easy to...

It might surprise you to find out just how many manufacturers don't manufacture very much on their own anymore. A huge amount of manufacturing, in fact, gets outsourced to other manufacturers like us. In many, many cases, it's simply faster and easier for large...

As Published in Greater Reading, PA Chamber Alliance Commerce Quarterly By Andy Brizek The first step in attracting talented people who are willing to work is to sell products and/or services that are in demand. Then set up an efficient operation to meet that demand...

Most metal fabricating companies that come up in a typical online search for the best metal fabricators use similar machines to offer a similar range of services such as laser cutting, welding, powder coating, assembly, tapping, and waterjet cutting, as well as a...

Our metal fabricating company outgrew our metal fab shop three times in six years so when we relocated to Reading, Pennsylvania, we wanted it to be our last move. Ten years and 120 lease payments (and four grandchildren!) later, we've grown exponentially by any metric...

We'd just installed a new 3300 Bescutter Fiber Optic Laser cutting system in our PA facility and committed to buying a hydraulic CNC press brake by U.S. Industrial Machinery with custom tooling when we were told the economy had to shut down for two weeks to help...

Designing parts for metal fabrication using SolidWorks 3D Solid Modeling has become our standard procedure for nearly every part, assembly, or product regardless of the quantity, size, or complexity. The transition from drafting with a pencil to 2D drawings with...

This article in Tube & Pipe Journal details the troubles our customer, Matt Planer, went through to build his company from an idea to a startup to a growing supplier of law enforcement products now selling worldwide. Our congratulations to Matt and everyone...

We were as alarmed at the recent headlines as any metal fabrication company in Pennsylvania. Many different types of sheet metal and other materials were either delayed, unavailable or priced at levels no one had ever seen. Thankfully, nearly all of the companies who...

There are no small jobs, just small orders that can become big orders. Many metal fabricators are doing well these days, so well they're being very choosy about which orders to accept and which orders to turn away. It isn't just that the demand for metal fabrication...

We're a welding company in Pennsylvania but we do much more than welding in our Reading, PA metal fab shop. We're a full-service manufacturer and welding aluminum, carbon steel, stainless steel, galvanized steel, and other materials is a core competency that we use in...

Buying a laser cutter and offering custom laser cutting services was a natural progression after many, many years of experience in metal fabrication, welding, assembly, and other metals manufacturing services. We already had the industry knowledge and metalworking...