Topics: Industrial Goods and Services : Casting, Molding, Machining
This category covers sites related to producing a multiplicity of standard and custom parts and components for a diversity of end users, usually (although not always necessarily) on a subcontracted basis. It includes associated supply and support companies and runs the gamut of providing castings through to the application of various finishes to end products. In effect, the essential feature is the use of machinery, rather than the manufacture of the equipment itself. Thus a lathe user can belong here, whereas the lathe manufacturer will be found -- and should be directed to -- a more logical Machinery and Tools category.Note: Companies indexed in the main category should offer either multiple or somewhat unique manufacturing capabilities. Otherwise, sites are distributed among a number of subcategories, each indicating a particular type of machining activity.
Directories, Sales Agencies
This category contains sites offering directories and sales agencies that represent firms involved in CONTRACT and CUSTOM manufacturing, such as machine shops and foundries.
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Employment
Please post sites that relate to jobs available in contact fabrication and machining firms.
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Foundries
This category contains sites of companies involved in or primarily focused on the variety of ferrous and nonferrous casting processes.
Corebox Cleaning,
Die Casting,
Foundry Supplies,
Grey and Ductile Iron,
Investment Casting,
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Glass
This category will list business that produce glass products (NAICS #3272 through 327215) and the companies that support these businesses.
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Heat Treating
This category will list job shops and contract heat treatment services and equipment for manufacturing parts and processes.
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Industrial Forging
This category is dedicated to sites offering CONTRACT or CUSTOM forging.
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Machine Shops
The overwhelming majority of Machine Shops concentrate on general machining of metal parts, each serves what is essentially a local market, and, if only as a matter of convenience, seem best indexed in a series of Full_Service subcategories that reflect their individual locations.
Electrical Discharge Machining,
Forging and Blacksmiths,
Full Service,
Gear Manufacturing,
Metal Fabricators,
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Metal Spinning
This category covers sites of companies that specialize in -- or have a business focus on -- the production of contoured hollow metal parts and components.
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Metal Stamping
This category contains sites of companies that specialize in -- or have a business focus on -- the production of stamped metal parts and components.
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Plating and Metal Finishing
This category and its subcategories cover the wide range of services involved in giving metal and non metal surfaces, products, and components a protective, decorative, or, in some cases, specially required finish.
Anodizing,
Black Oxide,
Cadmium,
Chrome,
Directories,
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Resources and Information
This category contains sites that offer advice, information, and support services to the metal -- and some non metal -- processing industries.
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Sheetmetal
This category contains site of job shops and manufacturers that specialize in fabricating parts out of sheetmetal and do little if anything in the way of drilling or turning to produce their end products.
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Surface Treating
This category covers a variety of operations required, on the one hand, to prepare metal and nonmetal surfaces and products for subsequent processing and, on the other hand, to give them a final (and usually pleasing) appearance.
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Welding
This category contains sites which provide all types of welding services (MIG, TIG, stick and flux) for businesses.
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Wrought Iron
This category covers firms that specialize in -- or have a main business focus on -- ironwork, usually of a protective or decorative nature.
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