Month: April 2014


No doubt every manufacturer is faced with the challenges of providing a quick delivery to customers who need the goods here now (or yesterday as they often say it.)  In the case of custom metal fabrication, time elapses as a Read more…


Pegasus is the horse from Greek mythology, usually rendered as white, which has both wings to fly and divine powers.  Not a bad name for a facility at the Gulfstream Park [horse] Racing Association in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The owners Read more…


Bollards are usually a post or other metal or concrete structure that helps define a physical space–think of the posts put up at key buildings after 9/11. But bollards date back to ancient Rome where they served as road markers. Read more…


The definition of a radius of a circle is the length of a line from the center of a circle to its perimeter.  When measuring a curved steel section (e.g. a curved steel angle, beam, bar, channel, etc.), you can Read more…


Steel Service Centers sell steel regularly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), companies that manufacture their own products, companies like John Deere, J.I. Case, and Caterpillar to name just three large OEMs.  Of course, OEMs also buy material directly from steel Read more…


One of the seminars at the recently concluded North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC) held in Toronto on March 26, 27, and 28 dealt with the issue of whether iconic buildings can be affordable:  ICONIC AND ECONOMIC–CAN YOU HAVE BOTH? Read more…

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