Forming

Forming is all about the skill and knowledge of the operators. You can’t just place a job in a machine, hit a button and count on CNC. You have to know your machine, know your metal. We have operators who have been doing just that for decades.

Take a Video Tour of CMF

Join us on a video tour of Commercial Metal Fabricators. Or give us a call to schedule an in-person tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIlR7v8LKew

Count the Processes – Part 2

Time for another game of count the processes! Today's contestants are two separate pieces that will be combined at a later stage. Show off your metalworking knowledge by telling us how you would make them.

Our New Video

Our specialists and our equipment in action. Commercial metal fabricating, machining and forming. https://youtu.be/eIlR7v8LKew

Count the processes

It's time for a game of count the processes! Take a look at these two pieces on our shop floor and see if you can see what metalworking processes we used to create them. There is a ratchet wrench on one of them for scale.

CMF From the Air

Commercial Metal Fabricators has 53,000 square feet of manufacturing space on nine acres. Inside, we have 18' foot high bays, all of it covered by cranes with a maximum of 12 tons lift. We're just minutes from Interstates 75, 70 and 675 and US 35. [gallery columns="2"...

Stainless Steel Weldment

We built this stainless steel machined weldment used in high pressure pump application. The unit was H-D Plasma and Waterjet cut, cone segment formed in 400 ton press brake , M.I.G. welded 100 percent, then finished machined to customer drawings. [gallery...

Rolled Cylinders

We're working on a set of about a dozen rolled 11 gauge mild steel cylinders.

“Fluid Dynamics”

Yellow Springs sculptor Jon Barlow Hudson asked us to help him bring his sculpture called "Fluid Dynamics" to life. The sculpture is installed on Patterson Blvd., in Dayton, Ohio, at a site that was formerly next to the Miami-Erie Canal. Our team worked with the...