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February, 2012 Newsletter

“Metfab Metals Makes Brake Metal
---and Much Much More!!

Metfab Metals is a custom and production fabricator of metals, for large and small jobs alike, including specialty items. Our website amply shows that we are an experienced (over 50 years), national and international, well-equipped and well-staffed fabricator. We have long-term relationships with many large contractors that attest to our ability to deliver on-time, every time with parts true to every aspect of your specs! Filling your emergency needs is a particular skill of ours, shipped out immediately on our own fleet of trucks or by common carrier, FedEx, UPS and others, such that we rightly call ourselves a service fabricator. Metal anchors have been our “stock in trade”, but we now make a whole spectrum of related and unrelated parts. AESS* steel is now a common order as our shop has acquired expertise far beyond most fabricators.

2011 was a water-shed year for Metfab Metals, as we grew our business despite a sluggish economy and all the inherent pitfalls of “growing pains”. Now, surely, we had for many years been both servicing the needs of many customers with our signature punctuality (“We always deliver on time.”) and adding incremental changes to our staff, our competences and our equipment. More specifically, over the last two years we have added a massive new 14’ brake, a matching shear to cut the metal for the brake and most recently a new automated “Notcher” to better fulfill the ever-more exacting 21st century specs! In the lingo of this business, it’s “brake metal” that these machines produce!

BUT------What is “brake metal”? Basically, the answer is simple: brake metal is the end-product of sheet metal being cut, then run through and “formed” by a machine called a brake or press brake and thereafter finished/assembled to spec. As this resultant product is most often used to add an esthetic (or architecturally “beautiful”) look to buildings, both on the exterior and in their interior spaces, it is often called “ARCHITECTURAL BRAKE METAL”.

[Our new KNUTH 14' Press Brake 1]

Actually, here at Metfab Metals, we use a series of state-of-the-art machines (most CNC-directed), including a shear, brake, notchers, welders and other equipment to provide micron-accurate custom aluminum and steel shapes per the specific job specs.  Before being bent in our brand-new brake (14'-0 in length, with accuracy to half a degree), the sheet metal arrives at our shop most often in standard sheet sizes (usually 4' X 8' / 4' X 10' / and 4' X 12'), though we can handle longer custom sheets. Standard Architectural Brake Metal finishes include mill, clear, bronze, anodized, painted and other custom finishes. Standard thicknesses are .040, .063, .125, .188. We also work with mild steel, galvanized metal, brushed stainless steel, mirror-polished stainless steel, brass, copper and other custom metals. From our adjacent shop, we can supply curtainwall clips and anchors made in any size, thickness, finish and fabricated with the slots, grooves and holes called for by the design. Throughout production, our staff/shop personnel follow a rigorous Quality Control (QC) manual to ensure that the required fabrication most accurately traces the design provided in the job plans & specs. In this demanding industry, haphazard quality control can cancel the near-perfect production our machines turn out. Make Metfab Metals your first call when your job calls for ARCHITECTURAL BRAKE METAL. We can save you time, aggravation, job delays--------and money.

Let us quote your next Brake Metal job!

Come in; meet with us; we can help you with practical details; review your specs; avoid “invisible” glitches that might result in costly re-fabrication to meet original job specs. We always offer to work with you from the project concept stage to anticipate metal “issues” before fabrication, to suggest better ways to order, extrude, cut, drill, paint, finish, even stage and deliver----- and always to save time & money.

Jim Murray, C.O.O.

973-675-7676
jim@metfabmetals.com

* For those unfamiliar with this acronym, AESS is Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel, and is finely-finished steel members (prepped, welded, filled, blasted, polished, and/or uniquely painted/finished) to be permanently open to the view and touch of all after the job is done. AESS work is never covered by sheetrock or otherwise hidden from public view. Our COO, Jim Murray, has been an integral part of early AESS projects, such as the BWI International Airport (erected well over a decade ago)serving the Washington, DC/Baltimore area. There you can see the structural steel space frame with its threads, pipes and connections in plain view-------- and still shining like its original fabricated & installed condition! Since then, Jim has overseen AESS jobs as varied as the American Jewish Heritage Museum a few years back in Philadelphia and the unique roof ladder coverage at 51 Louisiana in Washington, DC or the Borgata Casino overhang in Atlantic City, NJ. WTC4 (at the restored Ground Zero in NYC) and VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) will be even grander and more striking examples of this evolving art form and architectural esthetics at which Metfab Metals is proud to be doing the AESS components.

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January, 2012 Newsletter

Happy New Year!!!!!

Make 2012 Your Best Year Ever!!

Every year at this time, we heartily wish you well in the new year---this time in 2012. [WOW, remember when we all looked forward with anticipation---and with some concern & trepidation also---to this fearsome new millennium in 2000!]

We now truly hope that 2011 was a good year for you, despite all the weaknesses in our national economy. But, even if it wasn’t a “banner year”, 2012 can be that year---and we want to work with you to help.

 

Last year, we wrote at length here that we had completed our part of a rather unique project----the National Museum of American Jewish Heritage, Philadelphia, PA-----where again,Metfab Metals supplied anchors, curtainwall parts and miscellaneous metals on this now-iconic museum that will attract visitors for the rest of the 21st century and beyond. As we recommended then, go visit. We also reported last year on the new World Trade Center, New York City, NY------ Tower #4 with our AESS steel columns that will identify the entrance view to this steadily-rising skyscraper.

However, what we didn’t do and should tell you at the beginning of our work year together----those are just two huge jobs, but we here at Metfab Metals supply small as well as big jobs and supply a whole spectrum of metal parts, now light-gauge (look back just to our last Newsletter in December, 2011) as well as heavy gauge steel parts (aluminum too, as needed).

Look at some of Metfab Metals’ Services/Products:

Products Stone & Masonry Anchors Concrete Embeds/Halfen Alternatives Curtainwall Support Steel Steel Parts for Glazed Curtainwall Light Gauge Metals/Fabrication Complex Metal Operations Miscellaneous Steel Parts	Custom Products AESS Wind-Load & Gravity-Load Anchors Façade Assemblies Space Frame Assemblies Stone Truss Fabrication Trip Carts, Working Platforms, Tool Bins, etc. Tool & Die Work
Services Pre-Construction Consultation 25-Years/Industry Experience Custom Machine Shop Services State-of-the Art Equipment 14’ Brake & Shear Plasma Cutting In-House CNC-Programmed Production 24/7 Services Licensed Professionals Computer-Generated Job Documents LEED-Documentation WBE/CCR/SBA Accreditation Material Certifications MSDS Documents	Outsourcing “Buy USA” Sources Fasteners of All Types WBE “Set-Asides” Water-Jet Cutting Laser Cutting Rolling, Cutting, Straightening Foreign Supplies
Finishes Anodizing-All types/Colors Plating-All Types High-performance Painting Polishing/Stainless Steel/Alloys Polishing/Brass & Bronze Powder coating Galvanizing Bead-Blast Aluminum Abrasives Kynar Metallic Finishes Epoxy	Delivery & Hoisting Union/Non-Union Deliveries 48 Ft. Trailer Deliveries Flatbed Deliveries: 16Ft. & 26Ft. 24/7 Misc. Pick-Up Services  Boom Trucks Oversize Load Specialists
Misc. Metals, etc.----Ask us	You don’t see it---Ask us

We at Metfab Metals would like to be your supplier
throughout 2012---and years beyond.

Jim Murray, C.O.O.

973-675-7676
jim@metfabmetals.com

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Happy New Year!
Have a great 2012, working alongside us,
here at Metfab Metals!

NOW, as in all the past decades of our company, you can truly
count on Metfab Metals for full value for the price you pay.
This is still our pledge and our commitment to all our customers again in 2012.