Category: Machine Tools

Costs of Doing Business Metal fabrication can be an expensive business to get into. It takes a bit of capital to purchase the necessary machines to be successful in the industry, but with that success come the profits that allow the machines to pay for themselves over a period of a few short years. Investing […]

Is It Better to Buy New or Used Equipment? There are several solid arguments for a metal fabricator to purchase equipment that has been previously owned. Advantages of buying used fab machines can include: Most metal fabricators would likely prefer buying new equipment most of the time, however, if they have the capital to do […]

Some Well-Rounded Metalworking While most metal fabrication operations today likely involve flat sheets or plates of metal being cut or bent, there is still quite a bit of work done on more three-dimensional pieces and profiles like angle iron, tubes, and pipes. Even the ancient world saw a significant amount of metal pipe being connected […]