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Custom Metal and Stainless Steel

LabCommerce is the one place where you can get your total metal fabrication requirements delivered from a single supplier.

Find a complete solution with LabCommerce. We will provide and manage all of the following processes and manage the production of your custom-fabricated products, assemblies and systems.

Welding Processes


  • Brazing
  • Metal inert gas (MIG)
  • Plastic welding
  • Poly-welding
  • Solvent bonding
  • Tungsten inert gas (TIG)
  • Vacuum welding

Machining Operations


1. Cutting

  • Band saw – horizontal, vertical, blanking
  • Applying polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other coatings
  • Custom edging
  • Cutting to length
  • Filing
  • Laser cutting – laser marketing, laser engraving
  • Precise slitting
  • Punching
  • Shearing
  • Trepanning

2. Milling

  • Travel: x, y, and z dimensions
  • Planing
  • Vertical mills: 3-axis

3. Lathing

  • Travel: x, y
  • Vertical turret

4. Grinding

  • Centerless grinding
  • Precision grinding and machining
  • Precision ground shafting
  • Turning
  • Extrusions

5. Drilling

  • Boring
  • Computer numerical control (CNC) – Travel: x, y and/or z
  • Deep hole drilling
  • Drill
  • Grindage – X, y
  • Punch press – tonnage
  • Swiss
  • Wire EDM
  • Weight – taper angle
  • Wireforms – electrical discharge machining (EDM)
  • Optical comparitor

6. Assemblies

  • Cable and harness assembly
  • Electromechanical assembly
  • Enclosures
  • Kits
  • Manifolds
  • Panels
  • Process control enclosures

7. Sheet Metal Processes

  • Automated insert molding
  • Bending
  • Brake
  • Cutting
  • Drawing and deep drawing
  • House mold making
  • Hydroforming
  • Injection molding
  • Metal stamping
  • Shearing
  • Spinning
  • Stamping

8. Hydroforming

  • Shearing or Cutting
  • Slitting
  • Spinning
  • Stamping

9. Tubing Fabrication

  • Precision fabrication
  • High purity weldments, manifolds, and assemblies

10. Finishing

  • Anodizing
  • Cleaning
  • Degreasing
  • CO2
  • Coating
  • Electropolishing
  • High purity cleaning
  • Plating
  • Powder bake painting
  • Silkscreening
  • Tempering
  • Thermal spray coating

11. Packaging

  • Assembly
  • Barcoding
  • Inspection
  • Testing
  • Vacuum packaging
  • Die casting

12. Inspection Services

  • Helium leak detection
  • Boroscope with video or still photographs
  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA)

13. Other Metal Processes

  • Balancing
  • Cutting
  • Band saw
  • Horizontal, vertical
  • Blanking
  • Milling
  • Travel: x, y, and z dimensions
  • Planing
  • Vertical mills: 3-axis
  • Lathe
  • Travel: x, y
  • Vertical turret
  • Drill
  • Boring
  • CNC
  • Travel: x, y and/or z
  • Grindage
  • X,y
  • Punch press
  • Tonnage
  • Wire EDM
  • Weight
  • Taper angle
  • J3

14. On-Time Delivery of Solutions for Researchers and Product Development Engineers

  • Custom fabrication
  • Modifications to existing products and systems
  • On-time delivery
  • Production runs
  • Prototypes
  • Repairs
  • Small quantities needed
  • Rush

15. Design and Project Management Services

  • Computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting
  • Process control
  • System layout
  • Bill of material (BOM) production
  • Assembly of benchtop or enclosure systems

Materials


  • Alloys
  • Aluminum
  • Brass
  • Bronze
  • Ceramics
  • Cobalt alloy
  • Copper
  • Custom-shaped
  • Delrin
  • Exotic metals
  • Flat
  • Hastalloy
  • High alloy
  • Inconel
  • Low carbon
  • Magnesium
  • Monel
  • Nickel alloy
  • Nylon
  • Plastics
  • Plate
  • Polycarbonates
  • Round
  • Sheet
  • Stainless steel
  • Stellite
  • Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and perfluoroalkoxy (PFA)
  • Titanium bar
  • Tool steels
  • Tungsten alloy
  • Wire
  • Zirconium

File formats


  • .iges
  • .def
  • .dwg

Call us today for more information. If you already have an existing sketch or CAD drawing of your custom-fabrication needs, simply fax it to LabCommerce at (408) 265-6482 or email it to us at info@LabCommerce.com.