Sheet Metal Services

Sheet metal fabrication is the manufacture of sheet metal components or assemblies for virtually every major industry. The umbrella term “sheet metal fabrication” comprises multiple processes that alter the desired part to create precision sheet metal products. Some of these fabrication processes include:

Bending
Cutting
Joining
Finishing
Embossing
Coining
Blanking

Engineers rely on sheet metal manufacturing because of its incredible versatility and utility. It’s cost-and-time efficient, yielding strong, durable parts with minimal waste and labor. And our time-tested methods allow us to craft precision items for all industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, defense, and construction.

Common sheet metal uses include structural supports in buildings, enclosures for hardware, parts for appliances, industrial components, processing equipment in the food and pharmaceutical industries, as well as external and internal workings for automobiles, aircraft, marine vessels, and more. From cars to soda cans, many daily objects and utilities owe their existence to this humble but irreplaceable process.

How Beltim Sheet Metal Fabrication Works

Sheet metal forming is somewhat unlike the other machining methods, which typically remove material from a workpiece (subtractive manufacturing) or add material to a workpiece (additive manufacturing). Instead, sheet metal forming exerts force onto a metal part to deform it into the desired shape, providing an efficient way to create complex geometries in various volumes.

Thanks to these advantages, the sheet metal production process allows us to quickly and reliably meet clients’ demands with high-or-low-volume runs while minimizing error rates, lead times, and costs.

Additionally, our advanced CAD (computer-assisted design) and CAM (computer-assisted machining) capabilities allow us to craft precision parts to the tightest tolerances, achieving accuracies of tenths of thousands of an inch. Given these many advantages, including versatility, efficiency, reliability, and scalability, it’s no surprise that sheet metal parts are indispensable in all industries, especially the automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, and medical sectors.

Available Sheet Metal Finishes

Standard—A standard finish receives minimal post-production processing or treatment.

Bead Blast—Through a process known as shot blasting, fine glass beads are fired from a high-pressure projector to ablate, clean, polish, or smooth a surface while potentially providing tensile conditioning to the treated substrate.

Anodize (Type II or Type III)—Type II anodizing is an electrochemical process. Aluminum parts are treated in a sulfuric bath, creating an aluminum oxide coating that resists corrosion and abrasion while providing dielectric properties.

A type III anodized coating is generally thicker and applied at a lower temperature. It tends to be more expensive but offers better durability and abrasion resistance for parts subjected to additional physical wear and tear or other stresses.

Chem Film (Chromate Conversion Coating)—Also known as a chemical conversion coating or Aldine. A chem film finish is used to passivate aluminum, or to make it unreactive and therefore resistant to corrosion. This remarkably thin (0.00001-0.00004 inch-thick) coating also guards against loss of electrical conductivity and is invaluable in aerospace applications.

Powder Coat—This finishing option coats the desired component in powdered paint, then heat-treats it in an industrial oven. It provides a colored finish and resistance against physical stressors, including daily wear, corrosion, and scratches. Powder coats are applied to automobiles and other often-stressed exterior surfaces.

Electroless Nickel Plating—Electroless nickel plating envelopes the desired part in a nickel-alloy coating via a chemical reduction process, rather than electrical means, for exceptional surface uniformity. It confers increased hardness to protect against various forms of degradation (friction, corrosion, oxidation, wear) caused by industrial use.

Why Choose Beltim?

Rapid Tooling: Need something fast? Market demands can be ruthless, so our rapid tooling capability shortens lead times without sacrificing quality or incurring extra costs.

Rapid Prototyping: Rapid prototyping allows us to quickly craft a physical or virtual scale model of your component or assembly and assess its capabilities, dimensions, and overall design.

Fast & Simple Online Quoting: We understand you’re busy. So you can save time by quickly and simply getting an online quote from the comfort of wherever you may find yourself.

Reliable Delivery: Your part or assembly is no good if it’s stuck in a warehouse or truck. We make sure you receive it on time, every time.

Expansive Capacity: Scalable operations and expansive production capacity help realize your goal, from prototypes to volume runs.

Sheet Metal Technical Expertise: Our expert engineers leverage many decades of collective experience, and state-of-the-art equipment, with every project.

We manufacture a wide range of quality sheet metal products, including medical components, chassis, semiconductor faceplates and electrical boxes.