Custom Fabrication
PRE-heat will craft tailored solutions based on our clients’ needs. Whether it’s because there are new requirements for your industry or you’re looking to upgrade a preexisting system, PRE-heat can create the custom fabrication that works for you.
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Our experienced team collaborates closely with clients to understand their specific needs and challenges, ensuring that each fabricated component or system meets exacting standards for quality, performance, and durability.
Manufacturing Expertise
When you partner with PRE-heat for your precision engineering project, you aren’t just contracting with our machinery but with our industry experts who have spent decades supplying personalized custom fabrication solutions. When we assess your needs, we quickly identify an optimal manufacturing plan that considers not only your specifications but also broader trends in the industry. We then determine how best to accomplish that plan.
Fabrication Technology
At PRE-heat, we use a range of precision machining and fabrication processes to serve customers at every stage of the custom fabrication design cycle. Precision fabrication, which includes such technologies and processes as laser cutting and turret presses, yields unmatched tolerances with unparalleled consistency.
Our precision methodology achieves these results without requiring time-intensive manual labor, which would drive up labor costs and lead times. Using these techniques from the beginning of development can reduce costs and speed the transition from concept to final product.
Waterjet Cutting
Waterjet cutting is a powerful machining technique in which a pressurized stream of water cuts through a material with extreme accuracy. As a non-contact cutting method, waterjet cutting creates a smooth edge finish in even thick materials, achieving tolerances at near laser-cut precision without the same risk of heat damage. We use waterjet cutting to process standard and custom materials, including the stainless steel alloys that comprise most of our custom fabrications. We also use waterjet cutting to craft custom metal pieces according to client specifications, including thicker plates for custom fabrications as well as custom metal pieces for other requested modifications.
Laser Cutting
Laser cutting is a crucial part of our process. It speeds up the overall manufacturing time of our custom fabrications, lowering our lead time, which is crucial in the industry. With our laser cutter, we can make precision cuts at a much faster and more accurate rate. This high-power laser is controlled using a CNC to ensure accuracy and a finer finish while allowing us to create completely custom products.
Shear Cutting
Most stock and custom fabrications involve processing sheet metal. Shearing allows us to cleanly cut stock metal to size for further machining. Our shear cutters can accommodate raw material up to 12′ long, stainless steel up to ¼” thick, and carbon steel up to 3/8″ thick.
Hem Saws
Among the many modifications we offer clients are custom ductwork and structural supports. Hem saws, which quickly create accurate straight cuts, are key to constructing these options. Where waterjet cutting works with flat material of all kinds, our hem saws allow us to precisely process:
- Structural Tubing
- Angles
- Channel
- I-beams
- Angle Iron
- Round Stock
Brake Presses
Brake presses are essential to our operations as they allow us to bend sheets, rods, and pipes for frames and shell & tube heat exchangers. Brake presses help form tubes into any necessary shape, whether curved or angled. Our high-capacity brake presses can handle raw metal up to 3/8″ in thickness and up to 12′ long.
Punch Presses & Turret Presses
A key element of our plate heat exchangers are their dimpled or waved patterns, which enable optimal airflow and performance. Presses help us create exactly the pattern necessary for a given project. Punch presses also allow us to place the holes necessary for fixtures, fasteners, and tubing.
Our standard punch press creates holes up to 1 1/8″ diameter while our high-powered turret punch press can create holes up to 60″ wide in material up to 7 Ga (or .188″ thick).
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