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Design for Manufacturing: Aligning Our Fabrication Processes with Your Precision Product Requirements

July 3, 2025

The design and engineering that goes into your custom metal products is equally as important as the manufacturing technology used to produce them. While S&W is not a design or engineering firm, we offer our customers a collaborative partnership which integrates design for manufacturing – in other words, we can help optimize your products for…

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Choosing the Right Industrial Fabricator for your Project: End-to-End Manufacturing with S&W Metal Products

June 18, 2025

In the complex world of industrial fabrication, choosing the right manufacturing partner requires you to look at a lot more than just the cost-per-part and the company’s quality certifications. Those are both crucial, of course. But the industry experience, customer service, and value-added capabilities that your fabricator brings to the table are what truly make…

Value-Added Services in Metal Fabrication: Beyond the Basic Contract Manufacturing Solutions

May 21, 2025

Truly effective metal fabrication services go far beyond the actual manufacturing of the products.  Of course cutting, forming, machining, welding, etc. all form the core of the fabrication process. However, combining those manufacturing capabilities with design expertise is also crucial in order to optimize your products and keep costs in check. Furthermore, there’s a long…

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Designing for Quality Fabrication: Optimizing Product Design for Manufacturability, Efficiency, and Cost

May 5, 2025

Truly comprehensive metal fabrication services go way beyond the raw manufacturing of the end products. At S&W, quality fabrication and design go hand in hand as an integrated process. While metal forming, cutting, machining and welding form the core of our custom fabrication services, design expertise is likewise crucial to achieve high-quality end products that…

Quality Control in Fabrication and Assembly: Ensuring Precision and Repeatability for Your Products

April 22, 2025

Whether you’re building standard consumer products, precision industrial parts, or critical military equipment, continuous quality control is crucial to every step of the fabrication process. Each part must be manufactured to an extremely high degree of accuracy in accordance with the product design – often within thousandths of an inch. If even a single dimension…

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Fabricated in the USA: The Advantages of American Manufacturing and Domestic Supply Chains

April 1, 2025

When it comes to precision fabricated metal products, American manufacturing is practically synonymous with superior quality, customer service, and reliability for your supply chain. Complex sheet metal fabrication for the modern market is often a highly involved, collaborative process between the customer and manufacturer. Keeping your project on track, on time, and continually optimizing the…

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Fabricated Metal Parts Across Industries: Common Manufacturing Applications at S&W

March 12, 2025

American fabrication companies today must stay agile and responsive, tackling many different industries and product types as new needs arise within the market. Founded all the way back in 1946, S&W Metal Products knows what it means to remain flexible as the industry evolves. Even if you only consider a single market sector, the products…

S&W Metal Products Acquires New Factory –York Haven Fabricators

February 20, 2025

Press Release S&W Metal Products Acquires New Factory – York Haven Fabricators S&W Metal Products is excited to announce the acquisition of a new manufacturing partner – York Haven Fabricators (YHF) located in York Haven, Pennsylvania since 1998. This value-adding partnership will facilitate new manufacturing possibilities for both companies, while substantially increasing production capacity to…

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The Custom Steel Fabricating Process – From Prototype to Production Parts

January 10, 2025

S&W Metal Products combines comprehensive steel fabricating capabilities to provide our customers with a one-stop-shop solution. We also integrate a long list of post-production services and supply chain management strategies which are equally as important to the success of your overall project. Essentially, at S&W, we go above and beyond fabricating metal products. Our end-to-end…

CNC Sheet Metal Punching and Turret Press Services

November 20, 2024

CNC metal punching with turret punch press technology facilitates superior quality for complex sheet metal fabrication projects. Our CNC turret presses deliver enhanced precision and repeatability combined with increased speed of production. Nevertheless, conventional manually-operated presses are still crucial to our process. While not as high-tech as CNC systems, they’re needed to cost-effectively manufacture many…