Custom Steel Fabrication Services to Meet Project Requirements of Any Complexity and Size

When you require something manufactured from steel to your exact specifications, you will most likely need to approach custom steel fabricators, who can employ a wide range of industrial tools and equipment, to cut, bend, roll and join steel into complex shapes and assemblies.

Steel fabricators in Brisbane often start with stock metal components, such as a metal sheet, rod, billets and metal bars to create a new product. Billets can be fabricated into a curved tube with the help of an extrusion process and then folded.

Shears are used by custom steel fabricators, and are industrial machines of various sizes and configurations that can cut sheet metal to any desired shape. Rated for different thicknesses, shears cut steel into metal using different blades, with one side usually fixed while the other one moves in an angled levering motion. Large shears are operated by hydraulics for steel fabricators in Brisbane, to hold the material in place to achieve straight line cuts. High-pressure punch and notches utilise dies that are struck against the steel metal sheet to create openings of almost any shape or size. A Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machine is often used to generate either mechanical, electrochemical or hydraulic forces.

Finishing processes

Steel manufacturers may use finishing processes such as blasting, galvanizing, passivating and painting to provide finishing to the end product. Cold rolling is often used by steel fabricators in Brisbane to shape metal sheets or plates into cylinders or curves. Plate rolling is used by steel manufacturers to create curves while angle rolling is used to define angles, most often at 90 degrees.

Different types of materials used in steel fabrication projects include:

Plate metal: is used to shape steel pieces to achieve a better range of work.

Casting: is used to add visual interest to steel fabrication project.

Sectional metal: these shapes include bar metals, rod metals, L beams and Z shapes.

Flat metal: the piece is used to create visual interest and texture by steel fabricators in Brisbane.

Expanded metal: is used by custom steel fabricators for outdoor furniture to let the moisture flow off easily.

Machinists have to gauge the original shape of the raw material which might exist in the form of a flat plate, pipes, reshaped channels or other starting forms. Once steel has been processed, it is taken by the steel manufacturers to determine its final shape. Cutting edge technology is used by steel fabricators in Brisbane to maintain the proficiency of the fabrication process.

Industrial press brake machines

Industrial press brake machines are used by steel manufacturers to bend and form metal using high pressure and metal dies. A convex metal die is mounted on the press brake above a conclave die mounted below. The workpiece to be custom fabricated is then inserted between them. Powerful hydraulic or mechanical force moves the convex die downward to the conclave die. In this way, metal is bent into the shape formed by the dies.

Structural steel fabrication

Structural steel fabrication is used to produce various steel sections and assemble them to create mega structures, like industrial equipment, bridges, pillars, buildings and stairs. Structural steel fabrication is used by many industries including construction, aerospace, automotive, mining, energy, manufacturing and shipbuilding.

Use of CAD and CNC for custom fabrication

Brisbane Metal Products (BMP) is the leading steelwork fabricators in Brisbane with Australia-wide distribution capabilities that uses computer aided design and detailing (CAD) which is directly linked to factory floor computer numerically controlled (CNC) machinery, creating a seamless CAD/CAM environment. Use of CAD and CNC by BMP increases the quality standards in all its custom steel fabrication processes.

Creating intricate shapes and designs

Some applications call for speciality metals such as tungsten, brass, aluminium, wire, etc. For all such projects, Brisbane Metal Products employs metallurgy techniques to determine the best metal for use in a specific project. Industrial plasma tables used by BMP custom steel fabricators allow for cutting plate metal into any shape or size. Specialist custom steel fabricators such as BMP use plasma cut techniques to cut steel into circles or complex curves. These are often operated with the help of CNC machines. Laser cutting machines are used by steel manufacturers to achieve extremely clean and precise cuts. This allows custom steel fabricators in Brisbane to create intricate shapes, such as decorative stainless steel and copper filigree.

Finishing services

Being the leading custom steel fabricators in Brisbane, BMP have the capabilities to form the raw stock into the desired shapes using industrial machines. Their machinery and processes are able to generate pressure and forces required to alter the steel metal sheet to precise tolerances. Finishing differs from fabricating in that in fabrication, steel is shaped to create a new product, while finishing is a secondary process that is used to treat the exterior of a product.

BMP also provides finishing services for all types of custom steel fabrication work, such as polishing, deburring, coating and painting. As a leading metal fabricator, Brisbane Metal Products have over 50 years of experience in custom steel and metal fabrication work, and have capabilities and skilled technicians to accomplish the requirements of projects of any complexity and size. Get in touch with Brisbane Metal Products for all your requirements related to custom steel fabrication work in Australia.

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