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It’s hard to think of many things that predate ancient history. However, one such thing is the practice of metal fabricating. Metalworking and metal fabrication have been a necessity for us humans since sharpened sticks and rocks just couldn’t cut it anymore.

It is thought that some of the first practitioners of metal fabrication where the ancient Egyptians who used metal working for the creation of gold jewelry. While gold is found in nature and requires little work to form and mold, eventually it was discovered that ore and heat could be used to accomplish more.  With that knowledge, even today archaeologists find remnants of ancient mines all over the world.

Since its very humble beginnings, metalworking and metal fabrication began to grow in complexity and scope.  Civilizations continued to innovate and discover new methods and materials to create the metal products and metal fabrications that they needed.  All of that innovation has lead to the present day, where metal fabricating continues to be innovated, and the scale and complexity are centuries ahead of where they began.

But what does Metal Fabricating Involve Today?

Think of all the things surrounding you. Everything that contains metal could have once been a simple piece of ore, a product of the earth heated, bent, cut, and formed to create a product that we can use. With the same general principles used thousands of years ago, metal fabricators today take the raw material and transform it into the products and tools that we need.

Those ancient efforts to join things together have led to…

Aluminum Fabrication
Contract Assembly
Large and Heavy Machining
Large Metal Fabrication
Machine Frames
Metal Bending
Metal Forming
Plasma Cutting
Stainless Steel Fabrication
Welding

Today, metal fabricating processes like plasma cutting stand apart as an aspect of the craft that would have been inconceivable to the earliest metal fabricators.  In the same way, the sheer size and volume of metal fabrications produced in contract manufacturing would boggle the mind of anyone but modern man.

Using state of the art technology such as computednumerically controlled (CNC) machining tools, computer aided design (CAD), and specialty metals like hot rolled steel, aluminum, and stainless steel, modern metal fabricators are producing larger  and more intricate fabrications every year.

Combine all of that modern technology with quality control and the complexity of modern metal fabrications and you get something the metal fabricators of the past never would have expected – absolute perfection.

From the smallest metal components for electronics to large metal fabrications like aircraft components and building frames – you can be sure that metal fabrication and contract assembly have come a long way.  From before even the earliest recorded history, with simple gold jewelry and slowly fabricated machines and weapons to the present day, with more complexity than they ever could have imagined. metal fabrication continues to move and produce  like never before.

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