- Stainless fabrication is a sequence. Skipping a step shows up on site.
- Shop drawings are the last cheap place to change the job.
- The crew who measure it should be the crew who install it.
People say stainless steel fabrication as if it were one trade. In an Australian workshop it is six: a site measure, a drawing you can sign, a nest and a cut, a set of folds, a weld that gets dressed, and an install that has to land on a floor that is never as level as the plan. If those sit in different companies, the gaps between them become your problem, in Sydney or anywhere the crate goes.
We run the lot from Moorebank in Sydney's south-west. That is not a slogan. It is why a bench that was measured on Tuesday can be dry-fitted in the shop on Friday and still fit the wall on install day, in Australia, whether that wall is in Liverpool or landing in Melbourne.
What the word covers
- Kitchen fabrication: benches, sinks, hoods, wall panels and service counters.
- Precision cutting and bending: nested sheet, brake work and repeatable parts.
- Architectural metalwork: frames, screens and feature work that has to read straight.
- On-site welding: repairs and joins that cannot come back to the shop.
- Handrails and balustrades: rails detailed to the NCC, finished so the seam disappears.
- Sheet metal work: trays, covers, hoppers, guards and custom assemblies.
- Installation and repairs: set-out, fixings, making good and the call after handover.
The step that saves the job
Nothing is cut from a floor plan alone. We measure the space as built, mark services and penetrations, and photograph the things drawings never show: the beam that landed off grid, the door that only opens 700mm, the floor that falls 12mm across a servery. Those notes become shop drawings. You sign them. Then steel is cut.
Workshop, not a depot
Cut, fold and weld happen on the same floor. Assemblies are dry-fitted before they leave, so the first time a corner comes together is not above a live kitchen. Welds on food surfaces are ground and linished. Stainless is pickled and passivated. Film stays on until the install is finished.
| Stage | What we decide | What you decide |
|---|---|---|
| Measure | What the building will actually accept | Access, hours, who is on site |
| Drawings | Folds, joints, penetrations, clearances | Sign-off, or mark-ups from other trades |
| Fabrication | Nest, tooling, weld sequence, finish | Nothing, unless a drawing changes |
| Install | Set-out, level, seal, clean | When the floor and the other trades are ready |
If the person who measured your site is not the person who signs off the install, you have a coordination job, not a fabrication job.
What to send
A plan if you have one, photographs of the space, the suburb in Sydney or the city elsewhere in Australia, and what the steel has to do. You do not need to name a grade or a thickness. We will put those on the drawing and tell you if someone has already sold you an upgrade you do not need.