Steel Design and Fabrication is a value added process involving the building of metal structures through cutting, bending and assembling processes done in a fabrication workshop. Human beings have been working with metal for over 10,000 years. It has remained to be one of the oldest elemental skills known to man. From a metal rolling mill in the 17th century used to create thin, uniform sheets to hard-wearing and slim sheets of cast iron produced by Abraham Darby in the 18th century, the metal industry has had significant revolution.
Today, steel fabrication involves a couple of processes such as cutting, folding, machining, punching, shearing, stamping and welding. After a fabrication workshop is awarded a contract, it gets down to business. First, the steel surface is cleaned, cut and machined, punched and drilled where necessary, straitened, bent or rolled and finally given a surface treatment to protect against corrosion. Steel fabrication plays an important role in the construction industry.
