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Repeat Purchase rate for metal fabricator 99.9%
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...
TAB Industries Purchases Fastener Installation Machinery
Metals Manufacturer Expands Range of Services with PennEngineering Pemserter Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a fastener installation system. Expanding the company's range of in-house...
Why Many Manufacturers Don’t Manufacture Much Anymore
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...
TAB Industries Adds Semi-Automatic Band Saw to Expand Cutting Capabilities
Metals Manufacturer Invests in FMB Omega, Refurbishes Second Omega Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a new FMB Omega semi-automatic band saw and refurbished its FMB Triton manual band saw....
Staffing: Companies on the Rise Attract Talented Employees
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...
TAB Industries Adds Tapping to Range of Metalworking Services
Metals Manufacturer Invests in Flexarm System Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a new Flexarm pneumatic tapping arm. Expanding the company's range of metal fabricating, cutting, and associated...
Best Metal Fabricators Can’t Be All Things to All People
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...
TAB Industries Increases Laser Cutting Capacity by 65%
Metals Manufacturer Installs 6000W Fiber Optic Laser Cutter Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a new SONGU 6000 W FLY 3015 Fiber Laser Cutting Machine. Replacing the company's 3300 W Bescutter...
Celebrating 10th Anniversary Metalworking in Reading, Pennsylvania
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...
Metalworking Manufacturer Reports Record-Breaking Year
TAB Industries Capitalizes on In-House Manufacturing Strategy Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (www.tabindustries.com), has broken its record for sales, reporting a 98 percent increase in revenues in 2021 versus 2020. Marking...
We Bought Expensive Metalworking Equipment then Covid Hit
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...
TAB Industries Installs EZ Sander Metal Finishing Machine
Metals Manufacturer Expands Automated Deburring, Grinding Equipment Lineup Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a new EZ Sander Widebelt Metal Finishing Machine with companion dust collector....
Metals Manufacturing Company Enables Pennsylvania Scale to Offer Mobile Weighing System at Low Price Point
TAB Industries Turnkey Approach Supports Production of New Drum Bunny Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has enabled Pennsylvania Scale Company, Lancaster, Pa. to offer its new Drum Bunny mobile weighing...
3D Solid Modeling for Metal Part Design Included as Standard
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...
Metal fabricator upgrades quality, cuts lead times for prisoner restraint system
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...
Blanket Order Production Runs Protect Against Supply Chain Disruptions
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...
We Take On the Small Jobs, Too – Here’s Why
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...
Why We Added More Welding Equipment
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...
Why We Bought Laser Cutters
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...
TAB Industries Installs Another New Laser Cutter
TAB Industries Installs Another New Laser Cutter Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has purchased a new FLY3015 Bescutter Fiber Laser Cutting Machine. Installed only five months after purchasing a new 3300 W...
TAB Industries Expands Welding Shop
TAB Industries Expands Welding Shop Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), recently installed three new welding workstations to meet high levels of current demand for its services. Expanding its in-house capacity...
TAB Industries Installs New Press Brake
Metals Manufacturer Strengthens In-House Capabilities with Machinery Acquisition Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), recently purchased a new press brake. Installed in the company's 44,000-square foot, Reading,...
Moving the family metal fabrication shop
As Featured in the FabricatorBy Tom Brizek Lessons learned from serial relocating It still might be the worst phone call I ever received. After the initial shock and denial, I feared for my family and the families of our employees. This was fall of 2008 and we had...
Custom Laser Cutting Company Saves $250,000.00 Per Year for Packaging Machinery Division
TAB Industries Streamlines Design, Manufacturing of TAB Wrapper Tornado Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), has saved $250,000.00 in annual laser cutting costs incurred for the production of the TAB Wrapper...
TAB Industries Installs New Laser Cutter
Growing Metals Manufacturer Expands In-House Capabilities Reading, PA: Metalworking manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (TABIndustries.com), recently purchased a new 3300 W Bescutter Fiber Optic Laser cutting system. Installed in the company's 44,000-square...