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Carbon steel fabrication supporting operations across demanding industries:
CARBON STEEL FABRICATION
Full-service carbon steel fabrication for the custom industrial equipment and structures your operation runs on — engineered, welded, finished, and delivered from our Pennsylvania shops to your site.
SWF Industrial provides full-service carbon steel fabrication — cutting, forming, rolling, welding, and finishing — for custom industrial equipment and structural components. From two Pennsylvania facilities totaling 106,000+ sq. ft., our team cuts carbon steel plate up to 3/4″ thick, rolls cones and cylinders, and delivers turnkey weldments built to spec and shipped nationwide.
COMMON CARBON STEEL APPLICATIONS
From machinery bases to full industrial furnaces, SWF fabricates carbon steel into the equipment and structures that keep industrial operations running.
CONES & CYLINDERS
SWF has the expertise to roll and shape flat sheets of carbon steel into the cones and cylinders that suit your project needs. As required, custom integrated engineering features like supportive stiffeners, angle flanges, and structural elements create durable custom fabricated metal solutions. Whether it needs to be bent, rolled, cut, shaped, or welded, SWF is the partner you need to get the job done right, safely, and on time.
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INDUSTRIAL FURNACES
SWF delivers turnkey heavy gauge plate carbon steel furnaces for use in a foundry or other applications in highly corrosive environments requiring molten metal. We bring decades of experience in industrial fabrication, including piping services, structural welding, wiring, and safety handrails. From industrial equipment design to oversize load logistics, shipping, and handling expertise, to onsite installation using TEKLA Structures software to integrate trades and streamline processes across miles or oceans.
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MACHINERY BASES
SWF knows precision is key to ensuring that machinery and equipment bases hit specs and meet the tightest of tolerances for our clients. Carbon steel machinery bases are customized exactingly and installed to order. SWF takes pride in metal fabrication services and delivers turnkey custom carbon steel machinery bases that meet your needs, value engineered for cost efficiency, without cutting corners.
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TANKS, HOPPERS & CHUTES
Carbon steel tanks, chutes, hoppers, and other customized steel sheet metal constructions are no problem for SWF. Utilizing MIG and TIG welding techniques and integrating engineered features like supportive stiffeners, angle flanges, and other components in your industrial equipment design, SWF delivers chutes, hoppers, and other custom carbon steel metal weldments.
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Cut, punched, rolled, bent, welded, or finished — carbon steel work handled under one roof, to spec.
- Plasma and laser cutting of carbon steel plate up to 3/4″ thick
- (3) plate rolls, with power rolls up to 3′ × 16′
- MIG, TIG, and handheld laser welding
- In-house finishing: deburring, paint booth, and glass bead blasting
- (2) 200-ton, 6-axis press brakes — forming down to 9.5′ × 1/4″
- 33-ton turret punch (50″ × 70″ table) and 50-ton iron worker
- Dedicated leveling bays holding flatness within 0.030″
- Overhead cranes up to 20 tons; nationwide delivery and field installation
Why Choose Carbon Steel?
Carbon steel is the workhorse of industrial fabrication — strong, cost-effective, highly weldable, and available in a wide range of grades and thicknesses.
It’s the right choice when you need structural strength and durability at a lower material cost than stainless, and when the operating environment doesn’t demand stainless steel’s corrosion resistance. For applications involving corrosion, hygiene, or chemical exposure, SWF also fabricates in stainless steel, aluminum, and sheet metal — and our engineering team can help you select the right material during a complimentary constructability review.
Quality & Certification
SWF isn’t a broker or a middleman — we’re a team of 160+ professionals and tradespeople who treat every project as a partnership: do the right thing, keep our word, and let our customers’ operations run seamlessly.
- ISO 9001:2015 certified
- Dedicated quality department with three inspectors
- 10,000+ completed projects in our design library
- AISC Building Fabricator certified
- Rework accounted for just 0.06% of hours in 2023
- 160+ professionals across two Pennsylvania facilities
Carbon steel fabrication is the process of cutting, forming, rolling, welding, and finishing carbon steel into finished components, equipment, and structures. SWF Industrial provides full-service carbon steel fabrication for custom industrial applications, handling everything from a single one-off part to high-volume production runs in-house.
SWF cuts carbon steel plate up to 3/4″ thick using its plasma and laser cutting equipment, including an Amada Ensis fiber laser and Prodevco and Messer plasma cutting systems.
Both. SWF fabricates everything from single custom parts to high-volume production, with a design library of more than 10,000 completed projects to draw on.
SWF uses MIG, TIG, and handheld laser welding for carbon steel fabrication, and integrates engineered features such as stiffeners and angle flanges into weldments as needed.
Carbon steel offers greater strength and lower material cost, making it ideal for structural and heavy-duty applications, while stainless steel resists corrosion and is preferred for hygienic or chemically exposed environments. SWF fabricates in both, plus aluminum and sheet metal, and can help you choose the right material during a complimentary engineering review.
Yes. SWF provides turnkey service including nationwide logistics with a fleet of field trucks and 48′ trailers, plus on-site field services and installation.
SWF Industrial operates two facilities in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, totaling more than 106,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space, and serves customers across the United States.
Yes. SWF is ISO 9001:2015 and AISC Building Fabricator certified, with a dedicated quality department and a rework rate of just 0.06% of hours in 2023.