Big bending jobs lead to high-tonnage press brake--Michigan fabricator no longer outsources plate bending

摘要

Fabricating large metal parts and assemblies is a big business—both in terms of weights and dollars. Merrill Fabricators, a division of Merrill Technologies Group, Saginaw, Mich., knows this firsthand as it has seen its business grow serving the needs of its large OEM customers. The metal fabricator routinely works with fabrications that weigh as much as 60,000 pounds for defense, energy, heavy-duty equipment, and mining applications. Merrill has 165 employees, including almost 100 welders, who work on these very large and complex parts over two shifts in the company's 400,000-square-foot facility in Alma, Mich.