May 2 2014
Noble Industries specializes in custom material handling solutions. Whether your needs are for aluminum skids for heavy duty cargo moving across the country on a light weight aluminum skid or for custom metal carts, Noble Industries can handle the job on time and within your budget.
One of our more recent projects consisted of us fabricating 38″ X 38″ aluminum skids from 6061-T6 aluminum plate 0.375 thick.
By Noble Industries • Custom Metal Fabrication, Material Handling Products, Material Handling Solutions •
May 18 2013
A metal fabrication job shop has to manage the ups and downs in the market. It is a balance beam at 50,000 feet! Jobs shops have regular customers but most all of those regular customers are unwilling to take product until they need it. This can wreak havoc on a job shop schedule.
A month at a glance in a metal fabrication job shop might show capacity on many machines one day and be completely over capacity the next day. To stay profitable the fabrication staff and engineering office is staffed for regular production. The stress to management and employees alike comes from the inability to predict customer demand. What looks like a regular production without overtime, can change at a moment’s notice with 2 or 3 large customers needing parts at the same time.
By Noble Industries • Custom Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabricator •
Nov 15 2012
COR-TEN A is a premier high-strength, low alloy steel, with its combination of greater strength and exceptional resistance to corrosion (5 to 8 times carbon steel for COR-TEN A and 4 times carbon steel for COR-TEN B). This high strength steel is ideally suited for applications where weight reduction or long term maintenance fees are key considerations.
ASTM A-36 is a structural quality carbon steel which can be used in riveted, bolted and welded metal parts needed for structural purposes and general purposes where strength is needed. A-36 does not come in light gauge materials.
By Noble Industries • A36 Steel, Custom Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabrication •
Nov 8 2012
Metal Fabrication Case Study
Customer: Retail Point of Purchase
Product: Freestanding Display
Type of Fabrication: Laser Cutting, Welded Wire Mesh Grid, Press Brake Metal Forming, Welding, Powder Coating
Problem: Taking a new design from the concept to production
Noble Industries solution:
Noble Industries has several customers who design all types of store fixtures for the retail industry. Many things are considered before a prototype is scheduled. Our customers will send conceptual drawings or models with all the factual information included such as the material they wish to use, dimensions, views from the front, back, side and top, specific hardware requirements, what powder coat color or colors they want and much more.
Our process engineers will review the design for manufacturability and give any comments or concerns to the customer. If everyone agrees on the concept, then our customer will detail each individual part. For this particular metal fabrication case study, we had a project to fabricate for Point of Purchase during the holiday season.
By Noble Industries • Custom Metal Fabrication, Design for Manufacturing, Laser Cutting, Metal Fabrication Case Studies, POP Freestanding Displays, Powder Coating, Retail Point of Purchase, Tube Fabrication, welded wire mesh grid, Welding, wire fabrication •
Nov 3 2012
The word “custom” can mean a conventional way of doing things or a common standard or practice. For custom metal fabrication it means almost the opposite. Custom metal fabrication means that someone wants to make something unique or specific to their needs. It may mean they want to make 1 piece or a very small number of metal parts. Custom metal fabrication can also mean large productions or medium size production run of between 100 – 2500 parts at a time.
Whatever your specific meaning, Noble Industries is the company that can provide all your custom metal fabrication needs! If it is a project where you need to cut metal into specific sizes we can do that through the use of saws, lasers & punches. If you need tubular parts, we can saw cut one or 1,000 at a time with the use of traditional saws or our CNC Dutch saw which allows us to saw cut bundles of tube or pipe quickly along with deburring the ends. If you need sheet metal parts cut with a countersunk hole our 6 axis laser cutting equipment can handle that easily. If you have a need for metal wire straightened and cut to length, we can do that as well. Whatever custom metal cutting means to you, we can handle it. We commonly cut aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel. Our equipment includes Mazak Lasers, Amada Punch Presses, Salvagnini Panel Punching, CNC Shearing, Piranha Iron Worker, Dutch Saw, Band Saws, Cold Cut Miter Saws, Wire Straightening and Cut off equipment and much more.
By Noble Industries • Custom Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabricator, Powder Coating •
