FES welder working a seam on an aluminum panel at a fabrication table

Capability

Fabrication

Aluminum and metal fabrication done by people who build products that get used hard. Bodies, compartments, storage systems, and components, cut and welded in Sumter, South Carolina.

What We Fabricate

Fabrication connected to the finished product

FES is not a job shop cutting parts to a drawing and shipping them blind. Fabrication here is connected to engineering on the front end and real-world use on the back end.

Aluminum fabrication

Apparatus bodies, compartment enclosures, panels, and framing cut, formed, and welded from aluminum.

Metal fabrication

Cutting, forming, and welding for brackets, mounts, structural members, and specialty components.

Vehicle bodies

Full body construction from framing through skin, built on fixtures and checked against the design.

Compartments and storage

Compartment interiors, shelving, racking, drawer systems, and equipment storage configured around what the user has to carry.

Specialty components

One-off and low-volume parts that support a larger build or solve a specific equipment problem.

Contract and prototype work

FES is prepared to apply its fabrication capabilities to contract fabrication and prototype projects that fit the shop's experience.

FES fabricator feeding aluminum sheet through a horizontal band saw

The Shop

Cut, form, weld, inspect

Material moves through the shop in a straight line: sawing and cutting, forming, fixturing, welding, and inspection. The equipment matters, but the people running it matter more. The same fabricators who weld apparatus bodies weld everything else that carries the FES mark.

See fabrication in process
Fabricated aluminum wheel well compartment with lid open on an FES apparatus body

Standard of Work

Welds that have to hold

FES learned fabrication in a market where failure is not an inconvenience. A compartment that racks, a mount that fatigues, or a seam that cracks puts equipment and people at risk. That background sets the bar for every fabrication project we accept, whether it rides on apparatus or not.

Fabrication Inquiry

Have something that needs to be fabricated right?

Send us the drawing if you have one. Describe the problem if you do not. Either way we will tell you straight whether it fits our shop.

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