With 40 years’ experience and a modern 90,000-square-foot metal fabrication shop, our dedicated team of 130 skilled trades professionals and certified welders handle any commercial or industrial metal fabrication project requiring precision turnkey fabrication. Simply put: if it needs to be bent, cut, rolled, or welded, SWF does it with accuracy and efficiency.
METAL FABRICATION
SWF Industrial is a recognized leader in industrial metal fabrication and contract manufacturing. Delivering everything from complex equipment and piping to high-volume production runs for demanding commercial and industrial operations.
Metal Fabrication Capabilities Built for Complex Industrial Work
What SWF Can Fabricate and Support
With 40 years’ experience and a modern 90,000-square-foot metal fabrication shop, our dedicated team of 130 skilled trades professionals and certified welders handle any commercial or industrial metal fabrication project requiring precision turnkey fabrication. Simply put: if it needs to be bent, cut, rolled, or welded, SWF does it with accuracy and efficiency.
Cutting & Forming
- Fiber laser and plasma cutting of carbon steel plate up to 3/4 inch thick and stainless steel plate up to 1/2 inch
- Press-brake forming, turret punching, and plate rolling up to 1 inch thick and 10 feet long
- Robotic plasma cutting, coping, etching, and hole punching on beams, channels, angles, and tubing
Welding & Joining
- MIG, TIG, purge, orbital, and handheld laser welding
- Welded or bolted connections, with turning rolls up to 15 feet in diameter for large weldments
- Sanitary welds for food, beverage, and pharmaceutical equipment
MATERIALS
- Carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, structural steel, and sheet metal
- Miscellaneous metals on request
- Galvanized sheet, plate steel, and multi-metal assemblies
Engineering & Project Management
- In-house design and detailing in TEKLA Structures, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Trimble X7 laser scanning
- Dedicated project management across multiple production shifts, year-round
- Value engineering and constructability reviews that control cost and simplify installation
Finishing, Quality & Logistics
- Deburring, painting, and coating in a 30-foot booth, plus glass bead blasting and galvanized finishes
- Overhead cranes, nationwide delivery, and field installation
- Permanently installed leveling beds up to 20 by 40 feet for large, flat work
Industries and Applications We Commonly Support
SWF’s fabrication work concentrates in industries where precision, documentation, and reliability matter. We regularly support:
- Manufacturers & OEMs: custom weldments, frames, and assemblies produced to spec and at volume
- Food, Snack & Beverage: sanitary welds, conveyors, and processing equipment
- Energy & Renewable Energy: heavy weldments and structural fabrication
- Automation & Robotics: precision frames and integration-ready assemblies
- Medical & Pharmaceutical: sanitary stainless equipment and clean, documented fabrication
- Water & Wastewater Treatment: corrosion-resistant tanks, platforms, and structures
- Data Centers: structural steel, dunnage, and enclosures
If your project doesn’t fit neatly into one category, it’s likely the perfect project for SWF to take on.
Why Buyers Choose SWF
Buyers choose SWF when a project is too important to hand to a generalist. Three things set the shop apart:
- Experience and stability: operating since 1984, with more than 40 years of industrial fabrication behind every project and a skilled team of tradespeople and certified welders across two Pennsylvania facilities.
- Engineering and project-management rigor: in-house detailing, value engineering, and dedicated project managers who keep complex, multi-trade builds on schedule.
- Process maturity and quality discipline: an AISC Building Fabricator and ISO 9001:2015 certified quality system, a dedicated quality department, and a rework rate of just 0.06% of production hours in 2023.
The result is a partner that behaves like an extension of your own operation, doing the right thing, keeping its word, and letting your project move forward without surprises.
Certifications
SWF backs its capability claims with certifications, measurable quality performance, and a deep library of completed work.
- AISC Building Fabricator certified
- Dedicated quality department with three inspectors and documented inspection processes
- A design and project library of more than 10,000 completed jobs
- ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system
- Rework held to 0.06% of production hours in 2023
Recent Projects
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Case Study: Custom Stainless Steel Tanks for Benjamin Moore
August 2026About the Client Benjamin Moore is a leading manufacturer of premium paints, stains, and coatings. When the company needed two new tanks for paint batching and storage, it turned to SWF Industrial to manage the project from design through delivery. The tanks were similar to units Benjamin Moore had purchased before, but these would be […]
Case Study: Structural Steel Canopy Fabrication for Liberty State Park
July 2026Liberty State Park is a landmark in its own right, but for many visitors, it is also a gateway. From the park’s ferry loading area, passengers make their way toward one of the most recognizable destinations in the country: the Statue of Liberty. That kind of setting calls for infrastructure that does more than function. […]
Case Study: Stainless Steel Process Piping & Field Support for UAJA Wastewater Biosolids Facility
April 2026About the Project The University Area Joint Authority (UAJA) in State College, Pennsylvania, set out to modernize its biosolids processing facility. The goal wasn’t just a simple replacement. It was transformation. Aging composting infrastructure would give way to a next-generation system designed to produce renewable energy, reduce waste, and support long-term regional growth. To bring […]
Metal fabrication is the process of cutting, forming, welding, and finishing raw metal into finished parts, assemblies, and structures. SWF Industrial provides industrial metal fabrication for custom one-off projects and high-volume production, working in carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, structural steel, and sheet metal.
Yes. SWF runs a high-volume production shop built for repeatability, producing hundreds to thousands of tight-tolerance parts to customer specifications alongside its custom and one-off fabrication work.
SWF fabricates carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, structural steel, and sheet metal, including galvanized sheet, plate steel, and multi-metal assemblies, and it works in miscellaneous metals on request.
SWF cuts carbon steel plate up to 3/4 inch thick and stainless steel plate up to 1/2 inch, and it rolls plate up to 1 inch thick and 10 feet long.
Yes. SWF is an AISC Building Fabricator and maintains an ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system, supported by a dedicated quality department.
SWF provides turnkey support that spans in-house design and engineering, fabrication, finishing, nationwide delivery, and field installation, so a single partner can take a project from concept to installed asset.
SWF Industrial operates from two facilities in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, and serves customers across the United States.
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LET’S BUILD A PARTNERSHIP
Have a project that needs a capable, certified fabrication partner? Tell us what you are building. Whether it is a single complex weldment, a full production run, or a multi-metal assembly, SWF’s team will help you scope it, engineer it, and deliver it.