services
Our expertise begins with a strong core competency in design engineering for manufacturability. Working closely with our customers, we drive cost down at the most critical moment of a product's life, the initial design. The focus is designing high quality parts and components at the best value. Custom fabricated metal components are our business. These components can range in material types, with steel, stainless steel, and aluminum being the most common.
With state-of-the-art technology and metal fabrication capabilities that meet our customer’s very specific requirements in the following areas:
PRECISION CUTTING
If it’s metal, we can cut it to almost any size or shape. No matter the scale, we’ve got the machines and staff of experienced operators to meet nearly any specification.
BENDING + FORMING
We have an array of state-of-the art industrial machines that can bend, shape, and form metal to meet the vast majority of custom metal fabrication demands, with degrees of consistency and repeatability suitable for mass production of parts and products.
FABRICATE + INSTALL
If you’re located in the Southwest Montana and your project requires both fabrication or field installation, we’ll be happy to send a crew to your job site to install any of your custom metal fabrication projects.
CUSTOM DESIGN
Our design manufacturing services help you from concept to completion. Working with an existing design, or directly with the client we develop the best total solution.
cutting
Our Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) laser cutting machine is operated with exact programmed commands to create a product specific to your exact needs. Our laser is a 4000 watt platform with a CO2 based resonator. We utilize O2, N2, and Shop Air blends to achieve the desired cut quality based on material type and thickness.
Up to 5/8" Thick Material
Our lasers can punch through steel, stainless, and aluminum up to 5/8" thick, with remarkable cut quality and minimal burr.
In thick metals especially, cut quality depends significantly on heat buildup. SFP (Spatter Free Pierce) function for cleaner high-speed piercing in thicker material
Aluminum Quality
Aluminum is usually difficult to cut cleanly on a fiber laser, but our CNC can cut up to 1/4” aluminum beautifully.
Our Cutting Equipment
Production Saws
3 machines — capacities to 20″ x 30″Amada Laser Cutter
4,000-watt machine — capacities to 1/4″ stainless and 5/8″ carbon steel; table size 5′ x 10′
forming
We have an array of state-of-the art industrial machines that can bend, shape and form metal to meet the vast majority of custom metal fabrication demands, with degrees of consistency and repeatability suitable for mass production of parts and products
Precision Bending
With precision back-gauge positioning to within +/- 0.008", real-time material thickness measurement and compensation, and high precision ram placement, our equipment can produce parts with a high degree of accuracy and repeatability.
Our standard bend angle tolerances are +/- 1.0 degree.
Other Metal Forming Capabilities
We also use a multi-function Ironworkers to help manage all the shearing, punching, and bending work that comes through our shop. When needed, we also use them to notch metal.
We’ve pretty much got everything you’d need to bend metal. Whatever your metal forming needs.
Our Metal Forming Equipment
CNC Hydraulic Press Brake
1 machines — 250 tons
capacities to 10 foot - 1/4”
6 foot - 3/8”
3 foot - 1/2”
Ironworkers
1 multi-function machine for metal forming and punching — capacities to 1″ and 70 tons