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Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metal

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Inside

May / June 2014 Vol. 55, No. 3

METALfab2014 Review

For those who could not attend METALfab2014 last March in St. Louis, beginning on page 24, you’ll see what you missed, much of which is in pictorial form.

METALfab2015 See you next year in King of Prussia, PA, March 11–14, 2015

Knowledge to Enlighten the Industry

n Keynote and highlights 24 n Theme dinner 26 n Candidly at the show 28 n Spouse programs 30 n Shop tours 32 n Candidly at the show 34 n Awards 36 n Top Job winners 40 n Exhibit hall 41 n Exhibitor showcase 42

NOMMA Network

What’s Hot!

Top Job Profile

NOMMA Board examining METALfab, technical affairs....... 10 ASTM rolls out fence and gate updates.............. 11

Shop Talk Glass rail: Why not a fabricator?

Part 2: Three case studies.......... 14

With the barrier for entry relatively low, three fabricators tell how they managed a glass/metal rail job.

By Jeff Fogel Ratcheting to secure the glass.

This dinosaur was one of the cut-out metal designs on the L.E. Sauer Machine Co. shop tour during METALfab2014.

When McLellan Blacksmithing didn’t need the extra day............... 46

With quick-thinking and confidence, McLellan Blacksmithing fast-tracked job completion and won the 2013 Top Job Gold Award in the Gates / Doors — Forged category.

By John McLellan Also: Induction forge advantages...... 53 Biz Talk Walkin’ NOMMA’s ROI talk........... 55

More than talk, here’s how working collaborations among NOMMA members pays off in real money.

By Peter Hildebrandt Also: 5 collaboration pointers and benefits................................ 57

President’s Letter........... 7

Working hard to meet goals.

Exec. Director’s Letter.... 8

Reaching out to designers.

Events.................................................... 68

ABANA 2014 Conference, August 13–16, Harrington, DE.

People.................................................... 68

Electron Beam Technologies gets new president.

The Wagner Companies makes several personnel moves.

Products........................................69

Gate accessories, grinder, barbed wire roll, and wire feed connectors.

Member Listings............................... 61 Ad Index................................................ 73

NEF................................... 12

Next class: Fabrication of curved stairs.

Metal Moment................74

Lynden Sculpture Garden renovation is LEED inspired.

About the cover McLellan Blacksmithing won the 2013 Top Job Gold award in the Gates / Doors — Forged cate­gory for this a residence in Santa Fe, NM, The design called for a 12-foot-wide opening divided evenly into four panels: two gates and two side panels. The cover shows the handles with forged square corners and slide latch. See story, page 46 .

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President’s Letter

Working hard to meet goals I am deeply honored and excited

to serve as your new president.

NOMMA has come a long way in the past few years, and one of my main goals is to keep us moving forward.

As I write this, NOMMA continues to protect the industry through code monitoring and advocacy, we are promoting our work to architects, and we are striving to provide the tools our members need for success.

Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron & Steel Corp, is president of NOMMA.

Accomplishments

In the last year, NOMMA has made major accomplishments, and I will ensure that these programs continue their forward momentum: n We held our first ever continuing education session for design professionals during METALfab2014. n NOMMA rolled out a new tiered dues system that makes membership more affordable to small shops. n We unveiled an improved website in January that provides social media features and forums for special interest groups. n In October, we hired a full-time marketing manager to help us grow membership and promote our brand to the design community.

Growing the membership not only gives us greater clout with code bodies, but it also will give us more resources to expand our products and services.

Looking ahead for 2014

On the Tuesday before METALfab, the NOMMA board spent the afternoon brainstorming, ranking needs, and determining strategies for the coming year.

We agreed to focus in two areas:

METALfab revitalization. The Board determined that we need to give METALfab a full review to ensure that the format and content is optimized n

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to give attendees top value for their investment. We created a METALfab Review Task Force and the Board charged the group with a specific list of items to review.

The goal is for the group to have specific recommendations in place by October, which we would incorporate into our future conventions, starting in 2016. The findings of the task force may move us into some exciting new directions.

n Technical affairs. The Board’s second priority is to find ways to provision and strengthen our Technical Affairs division.

Our existing volunteer team has worked hard and faithfully for many years to ensure that we monitor code changes and are represented in the code and standard writing process.

Some of our volunteers would like a break, and we need to find ways of better supporting them or replacing them.

Plans are to create a second task force that would evaluate current needs and report back to the board with creative options.

Additional goals

Also at our March strategic planning session, we identified additional areas to work on.

For instance, we need to expand our membership and provide the hard benefits that we all need for our businesses.

And, we need to continue expanding our brand recognition to architects and designers.

All these efforts will take hard work and more volunteer help. If you’d like to help us, we’d love to hear from you.

Feel free to contact me or any member of the NOMMA staff.

Dedicated to the success of our members and industry.

NOMMA O fficers

President Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron & Steel Corp.

Jackson, WI President-Elect Allyn Moseley, Heirloom Stair & Iron, Campobello, SC Vice President/Treasurer Keith Majka, Majka Railing Co. Inc., Paterson, NJ Immediate Past President J.R. Molina, Big D Metalworks, Dallas, TX

F abricator D i rectors

Greg Bailey, Bailey Metal Fabricators, Mitchell, SD Max Hains, MOFAB Inc., Anderson, IN Maciej Jankowski, Artistic Iron Works, Norwalk, CT Tina Tennikait, Superior Fence & Orn. Iron, Cottage Hills, IL Cathy Vequist, Pinpoint Solutions, Jupiter, FL Henry Wheeler, Wheeler Ornamental Metals, Dothan, AL

S u ppli er D i rectors

Bill Schenke, Ameristar, Tulsa, OK Mark Sisson, Mac Metals Inc., Kearny, NJ Dave White Jr., Locinox USA, Countryside, IL

NOMMA E ducation F ou ndation O fficers

Co-Chairs Roger Carlsen, Ephraim Forge Inc., Frankfort, IL Lynn Parquette, Mueller Ornamental Iron Works Inc., Elite Architectural Metal Supply LLC, Elk Grove Village, IL Treasurer Mike Boyler, Boyler’s Ornamental Iron Inc., Bettendorf, IA

NEF T rustees

Heidi Bischmann, Hartland, WI Carl Grainger, Grainger Metal Works, Nichols, SC Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron & Steel Corp., Jackson, WI Christopher Maitner, Christopher Metal Fabricating, Grand Rapids, MI Rob Rolves, Foreman Fabricators, St. Louis, MO Greg Terrill, Division 5 Metalworks, Kalamazoo, MI

NOMMA C hapters

Chesapeake Bay Patty Koppers, President, Koppers Fabricators Inc. Forestville, MD 301-420-6080 Florida Marco Vasquez, President, Vasquez Custom Metals Inc., Tampa, FL, 813-248-3348 Gulf Coast Charles Perez, President, B & O Machine Welding, Brookhaven, MS, 985-630-6943 Northeast Keith Majka, President, Majka Railing Co. Inc., Paterson, NJ, 973-247-7603 Pacific Northwest Gale Schmidt, President, A2 Fabrication Inc., Milwaukie, OR, 503-771-2000 Upper Midwest Mark O’Malley, President, O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc., Yorkville, IL, 630-553-1604

NOMMA S taff

Executive Director, J. Todd Daniel, CAE Meetings & Exposition Manager; NEF Executive Director, Martha Pennington Member Care & Operations Manager, Liz Harris Sales Director, Sherry Theien Marketing Manager, Brian Maddox Editor, O&MM Fabricator, Robin Sherman

F abricator E ditorial A dvisory B oard

Terry Barrett, Pinpoint Solutions, Jupiter, FL Doug Bracken, Wiemann Metalcraft, Tulsa, OK Bill Coleman, Arc Angels, Dunedin, FL Nancy Hayden, Tesko Enterprises, Norridge, IL Chris Holt, Steel Welding, Freedom, PA Rob Rolves, Foreman Fabricators, St. Louis, MO

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How to reach us

Executive Director’s Letter

Reaching out to designers An historic event took place projects. Bingo! That’s what our during METALfab2014 in St. afternoon effort was about — Charles, MO. We held our first showing the design community continuing education event for the many options available with design professionals. While the metalwork. turnout was relatively small, it Our second goal was to eduwas a great learning experience cate designers and architects and a huge step forward for our Todd Daniel on how to specify our products is executive Marketing Committee. and the advantages of metal. director of The event running concurNOMMA. rently with METALfab began Give designers a metal edge with my short presentation on the Top The other designer told me a fasciJob Awards program. Afterward, Marnating story. She had spent most of her keting Committee Chair, Keith Majka, life in the finance industry and recently Majka Railing Co. Inc., welcomed all. became an interior designer. I was The program for the day was a twoexcited to meet a creative person who parter. Amos Glick, Compass Iron followed her heart instead of her head.

Works, Gap, PA, spoke for an hour on She said her field is highly competitive.

“Design & Specification of Sustainable I soon realized that she was looking for Custom Metalwork.” He did an excelproducts and ideas to give her an edge. lent job of teaching the audience about Wow, that was bingo two! If we can the sustainability of custom iron and help designers and architects, we have how to specify our industry’s products. an edge as an industry, and they have In the second session, Tony Leto, an edge over their competitors.

The Wagner Companies, Butler, WI, The roots of our outreach effort can lead a program called, “The Myth of be traced to the Northeast Chapter, the Ladder Effect And Other Guardrail which produced a manual for archiSafety Issues.” He covered terminology, tects, has regularly participated in basic building codes related to rails, regional AIA shows, and has given continuing education programs. and ADA requirements.

The goal now is for NOMMA to We were thrilled to have Feeney become a registered AIA CES (ConInc., Oakland, CA, as event sponsor, tinuing Education Systems) Content and the company’s Rick Ralston said a Provider and to work with our fabricafew words, too. Also, we were honored tor members, suppliers, and chapters to have board members and past Mitch to regularly provide education content Heitler Award winners in the room. both on the regional and national level.

The long-term goal is to grow our Interior designer talks metal industry and increase demand for our Afterward, we walked attendees to our vendor exhibit area and Top Job products.

Gallery. I had the honor of talking with I’m excited about our big first step. I a couple of interior designers. One told look forward to seeing many more conme that she was interested in learntinuing education events. ing about different mediums and how she could incorporate them into her F I LE S, U R JO B P RO CA LL FO R YO

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The NOMMA Network

NOMMA Board begins detailed work on strategic plan focusing on METALfab and Technical Affairs division Since October 2012, tion, in terms of purthe NOMMA Board pose, structure, and of Directors has gone value. Incoming presthrough a strategic ident Mark Koenke, planning review cycle Germantown Iron & that started with the Steel Corp., Jackson, creation of a new “Big WI, said he would Hairy Audacious Goal” organize a task force and is now in the to review METAL“brass tacks” stage. fab to ensure that we The day before the are providing the best kickoff of METALquality and value for fab2014 last March, our membership and board members held to make recommendaan afternoon stratetions to the board. gic planning session to NOMMA Marketing Manager Brian Maddox, left, gave a presentation to the A second round of association’s board of directors on how to gather marketing intelligence. The board establish priorities and began its strategic planning session by reviewing the “Big Hairy Audacious Goal,” polling took place and to begin more detailed (BHAG), right, which is a term invented by business guru Jim Collins. revamping our Techplanning work. nical Affairs division The group reviewed NOMMA’s big goal: “NOMMA will became the second priority. The board feels NOMMA must deliver outstanding programs and services to its memberensure that it has the resources to adequately monitor codes ship, resulting in distinct competitive advantages and indusand standards and to continue its advocacy work. try excellence within the ornamental, architectural, and misStrategic planning will continue at the board’s next meetcellaneous metalworking community.” ing on June 19–20 in Milwaukee, WI. Cathy Vequist, a fabricator board member from Pinpoint A thanks goes to Cathy Vequist for facilitating our strateSolutions, Jupiter, FL, facilitated the discussion starting with gic planning discussions. a brainstorming period in which board members listed 12 areas of top concern. Written on a flip chart, NOMMA lead— Todd Daniel ers ranked the issues by putting red dots on them.

Excecutive Director The most important concern was the METALfab convenNOMMA Board members discuss 2014 priorities.

Left to right, Greg Bailey, Bailey Metal Fabricators, Mitchell, SD; Greg Terrill, Division 5 Metalworks, Kalamazoo, MI; Tina Tennikait, Superior Fence & Orn. Iron, Cottage Hills, IL; Maciej Jankowski, Artistic Iron Works, Norwalk, CT; Bill Schenke, Ameristar, Tulsa, OK; Keith Majka, Majka Railing Co. Inc., Patterson, NJ; and Dave White Jr., Locinox USA, Countryside, IL.

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NOMMA courts architects at seminar Tony Leto, right, The Wagner Companies, was among the presenters at NOMMA’s continuing education program for architects and designers held at METALfab2014.

Leto’s one-hour program was on the “ladder effect” and guardrail safety issues. He covered terminology, basic building codes, and ADA requirements.

“These programs provide an opportunity to build demand for our work by educating architects on how to specify metalwork and show­ing them the many creative options available,” said Keith Majka, NOMMA marketing committee chair.

Design professional attending the event received two continuing education credits.

NOMMA’s Northeast Chapter has regularly provided regional education for architects since 2000, and the March event was the first program on the national level.

NOMMA member Feeney Inc. sponsored the event.

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Standards Updates

ASTM rolls out two new industry standards NOMMA members should be aware of two recent updates to industry standards: F2200 — Standard Specification for Automated Vehicular Gate Construction: The latest edition of

the F2200 standard is now available in the ASTM store. Developed by the F14.10 ASTM subcommittee, the document provides construction standards for vehicular gates, and it is harmonized with UL 325. Cost: $37.

F2957 — Specification for Ornamental Aluminum Fence Systems: The ASTM F14 Committee recently

approved the latest version of this standard, which provides minimum selection criteria and test procedures.

Specifically, the standard ensures that aluminum fence systems have sufficient strength to withstand reasonable loads and forces.

Before the revisions, the standard only included steel, but now covers aluminum. Also covered in the standard are required physical dimensions for residential, commercial, and industrial fence systems. Cost: $37.

Both standards are available for purchase and download from the ASTM website: www.astm.org.

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NOMMA Education Foundation

In partnership with the National Ornamental & Miscellaneous Metals Association

Curved stair fabrication topic of next class

Greg Terrill, Division 5 Metalworks, named to NEF Trustee Board

Get ready for Curved Stairs class

Curved Stairs: How to measure, detail, and fabricate a curved stair is the topic of NEF’s next continuing education class to be held at Germantown Iron Works in Jackson, WI. The exact date of the event will be announced soon.

Cost is $250 per person and will include lunch and supplies for the class. Presenters include NOMMA President Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron Works and Mark O’Malley, O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc. Additional presenters will be announced later.

For more information and registration: www.nomma.org.

Damascus steel used in ornamental products

Welcome Greg Terrill to the NEF Board of Trustees

NEF co-chairs: Lynn Parquette, left, Mueller Ornamental Iron Works Inc. & Elite Architectural Metal Supply LLC and Roger Carlsen, owner, Ephraim Forge Inc.

We are very excited to have Greg Terrill, Division 5 Metalworks, Kalamazoo, MI, become a member of the NEF Board of Trustees. He just completed a six-year term as a fabricator director on the NOMMA Board of Directors.

Greg has been worked with miscellaneous metals for 20 years. He started as a shop fabricator during college and became an estimator and project manager after graduating from college.

Greg started Division 5 Metalworks in January 2003.

He will be a great addition to the trustees.

Thank you and

congratulations Mike Kinnikin, Eureka Forge, to Mark Koenke Pacific, MO, presented an outstanding class on the creation of Thank you to Mark for his conEtching a finished Damascus steel leaf with ferric chlo­ a Damascus billet using innovatributions to NEF over the past ride. Left to right, Mike Kinnikin, Eureka Forge; Randy Le­ Blanc, Metal Head Inc.; and Rob Rolves, Foreman Fab­ri­cators year as the NOMMA representative techniques and tooling. He Inc. The pictures on the poster, far left, show the final three tive to the NEF board. demonstrated the production of steps of the Damacus steel leaf process: finish sanding, ornamental objects from the billet.

We look forward to working forming, and etching. Below, etched Damascus steel leaf.

“Hydraulic presses offer a with Mark on the METALfab2015 somewhat more controllable source of preseducation program. Also congratulations sure for making Damascus forge welds,” on his election as President of NOMMA for Mike noted. “They can provide for less the coming year. distortion in the final pattern. Custom fabMETALfab2014 was a great experience ricated “V” dies with step-down stops are for attendees. Special thanks to all the NEF especially helpful. However, power hamvolunteers who worked so hard to make the mers can produce great results as well. convention possible: Education Chair Lynn “Creativity is the key. When it comes to Parquette, education presenters, auctionDamascus, try something, if it doesn’t work, try it a eers Carl Grainger and Roger Carlsen, auction volsecond time. If that doesn’t work, reevaluate and try unteers, NEF booth volunteers Marti Graniger, Heidi something different. There are a myriad of possibilities Bischmann, donors and bidders of auction items, and when working with Damascus. Once you’ve learned Foreman Fabricators’ Rob Rolves for receiving and the basics and can repeatedly forge a basic billet with shipping the auction items. good welds, get creative and start trying new things.”

Because of everyone’s generous participation NEF Thank you to Mike and his staff for a wonderful was able to raise approximately $22,000 to support Greg Terrill class and a great visit to Eureka Forge. future NEF programs.

DO N AT E!

For more information on donating to the NOMMA Education Foundation Contact NEF Executive Director Martha Pennington, 888-516-8585 x104, martha@nomma.org.

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Shop Talk

Why not a fabricator?

Part 2

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three fabricators tell us how each managed a glass/metal railing job.

In last issue’s part , we examined the relatively low entry barrier for working with glass.

Hyatt hotel, Charles Leonard Steel, fabricator. A section dubbed the dreaded “Crinkle Wall,” with its series of acute angles, required faultless measurement and planning, left. Stainless steel cladding not only provides weatherproofing for the aluminum shoe, right, but spruces up the structure as well.

By Jeff Fogel It’s hard to beat the power of a good idea whose time has

come. Sometimes, all you need do is suggest it.

Hyatt hotel Charles Leonard Steel, fabricator

The Hyatt Place hotel in Portland, ME, wanted a railing installed on a rooftop deck that offered a view of the ocean but kept the guests safe from the edge.

Architects created a plan for a steel railing with mesh sides. It would be sturdy, attractive, and if you squinted in just the right light, you could make out something that looked kind of blue and watery.

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NH, (www.charlesleonardsteelservices.com) pitched the job with a suggestion: Why not use glass?

It would be strong, attractive, and you wouldn’t have to squint to see the sea. He even had a scale model.

It was an idea whose time had come. The suggestion is now a reality enjoyed by the guests and employees of the Hyatt Place.

Here’s how it unfolded. In January 2014, Severini got wind of the job in Portland and contacted the general contractor with a bid. In the following interview, Severini pitched his glass idea, something they were familiar with.

The architects demurred; the client had spoken, and the job was officially a glass railing installation.

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the railing shoe. us, on average, about two minutes and The modification incorporated a 12 seconds per pane.” stainless steel tube welded to anchor But who’s counting? Customers are. points that were drilled down through “They’ll save about one half the time the roof. The railing shoe would then (that you would spend on a wet glaze be attached to the tube. Beyond the system). So we can pass on some of that scope of a glazier, this required fabrica- savings to the customer,” Severini says. tion skills from the start.

In addition to being a cost savings, Severini says dry glaze is an advantage Severini is a fan of dry glaze systems. “They’re much less labor intenin getting new business. “We bring sive,” he explains, “Th-ey’re fast. It takes samples.”

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As it is critical in the dry glaze system to get the shoe absolutely plumb and level, a digital level was used. The C.R. Laurence (CRL; www.crlaurence. com) system shoes come in standard 10-foot lengths, and cutting is simple.

As with the base tubing, the more critical angles were done in the shop, while the straight cuts were done on site.

Meanwhile, back in Concord, NH, four crates of ½-inch tempered glass awaited delivery to Portland, ME, where they were to be lifted by crane to the rooftop of the Hyatt Center.

Each piece of the glass, purchased from Solar Seal, Easton, MA (www. solarseal.com), had been marked for position and size, a time-saving step because the glass comes with a bow on one edge, much like the “crown” found on most framing lumber, to be used for joists. The marking made it easier to line up the curvature when the sections were aligned in the shoe.

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As suggested by most codes, the logo was displayed. Because of the necessity of aligning the bow on the top, the logo was uniformly displayed at the lower right-hand corner of each glass section, which is in accordance with most codes.

As each panel was positioned in the shoe, the C.R. Laurence system was engaged to lock the glass in place. “You use a (proprietary) ratcheting tool that comes with the system,” says Severini, “four or five turns and then you hear ‘click’ and that’s how you know it’s engaged. If you have to remove the glass, you just remove the gasket and reverse ratchet.”

The gasket Severini speaks of is a simple rubber piece that is added after the glass is in place to provide weather protection for the exterior installation.

The shoe is then covered by a stainless steel cladding for additional protection and appearance. The cladding came pre-finished and was attached by silicone caulking to the shoe.

The final touch was a cap rail along the top of the glass panels. This was also a pre-finished stainless steel.

The entire project, comprising 170 linear feet of glass railing, took three days.

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Carnegie Hall detail, SRS Inc., fabricator: Upper left, (6) typical part elevation; far left, (7) glass fabrication for hinges; bottom, (8) support posts for the swing door; right, (5) typical guard rail section; far right, (3) ends and (4) corners.

Carnegie Hall SRS Inc., fabricator

An article in the March-April 2014 O&MM Fabricator posed the question, with regard to glass railing installation: “Why not a fabricator?”

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another question: “Why not a fabricator and a glazier?

SRS’s glass railing installation at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall was a cooperative effort between SRS and W&W Glass LLC, Nanuet, NY (http://wwglass. com/wwglass). SRS President Rich Blatman says a symbiotic relationship

between fabricator and glazier is not only possible but desirable.

A terrace jutting from the side of Carnegie Hall called for a railing to separate sightseers and workers from the traffic 47 floors below.

Field measurement outlined a 107 x 131-foot area, which involved some

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creative thinking to attach the shoe base. A length of 3/16-inch stainless was anchored to the knee-wall structure, and another length of 9½ x 3½-inch stainless angle material was anchored to the length of the terrace’s poured masonry wall. The shoe would be affixed to the angle material. The ½-inch angle stainless was brakeformed and drilled in SRS’s shop.

The terrace also had a structural bulkhead to which the stainless angle was attached with epoxy anchors. For extra strength and weather sealing, butyl caulking was squeezed into the interface between the angle stainless material and the terrace wall.

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A top cap was run across the upper edge of the glass. As Blatman says, a top cap is not only a good idea, it’s also code — IBC 2407.1.2 — which reads: “Each handrail or guard section shall be supported by a minimum of three glass balusters or shall be supported to remain in place should one baluster panel fail.”

Now, they were ready for the shoe.

A standard dry glaze shoe from CRL was used, with one modification.

Instead of the basic CRL clamping As Blatman explains, the idea is to system, an epoxy was poured into provide a load bearing back-up in case the shoe a la a wet glaze installation. any individual panel breaks. For examW&W’s glaziers — and here is where ple, if one panel fails, the two adjacent the cooperative effort came into play panels would remain in place, held there — actually set the ½-inch tempered by the top cap to still provide some sepglass into the shoes. aration between a person and the great Once the glass sections were placed, beyond (see “A Code Contradiction,” by SRS’s fabricators took over again. SecTony Leto, Glass Magazine, December tions of 16-gauge stainless steel cladding 12, 2008, http://bit.ly/1eBaUag). were cut and cold-bent at the shop, and Although SRS is capable of installbrought on site to cover the shoe. ing glass, their relationship with a The finish on the cladding involved77035-CB-4829-08 glazier is a marriage of convenience.

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Houston skyscraper Berger Iron Works, fabricator

One Shell Plaza is a landmark in Houston because it holds the unofficial title of Houston’s first skyscraper.

It’s 714-foot stature may seem ordinary by today’s standards, but it was built in 1971, before the global edifice complex was in full, ungovernable tilt.

Naturally, a 43-year-old building is of an age where the occasional facelift is in order. In this case, four ramps were built alongside of the two staircases leading to the building’s two main entrances. The plan called for glass railings to flank the ramps. Berger Iron Works Inc., Houston (www.bergeriw. com), was tapped for the job.

Gary Eckhardt, vice president of Berger Iron Works, is a stickler for accurate field measurement.

“Before we send it to the drafting department, we measure one way, then measure from the opposite direction. If you don’t come out to within 1/8 inch of each other, then you’ve go something wrong,” says Eckhardt.

“You’ve got to have a check. With ornamental jobs and you’re working with stainless or brass, for instance, one piece can pay for your time if you don’t have to replace it because of a mistake,” he says.

That goes especially for glass. “Glass has tolerances,” explains Eckhardt. He’s referring to the nominal sizes from the manufacturer. “It’s essential to measure the glass. It could be as much as 1/8-inch off, depending on the thickness of the piece. On 3/16-inch glass, there could be as much as a ¼ inch discrepancy.”

Since so many subcontractors are going to 3/4-inch glass these days because of it’s added strength, as much as a 3/16-inch difference can exist between the nominal glass thickness and the actual thickness..

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Glass rail at One Shell Plaza, Houston.

Berger Iron Works, fabricator.

of the time, it’s on the plus side, that is, the glass is longer than it’s labeled.

For the Shell job, Eckhardt wanted the ¾-inch tempered glass to be precut to exact lengths, and he was willing to pay extra for it. The trouble is, most glass purveyors didn’t think the money was worth the trouble.

But Craftsman Fabricated Glass (www.craftsmanfab.com) in Houston was game. For a $150 premium, per pane, they cut the glass to the precise dimensions required by Berger. The trimming was confined to the bottom of the glass so any roughness would be concealed by the shoe. But it was still an onerous task, and one that Craftsman would not be willing to repeat.

The standard aluminum shoes were

purchased from C.R. Laurence. A wet glaze of basic Portland cement was poured to hold each glass section. The glass came with the typical bow, or crown, on the top edge, which was a consideration while fitting the sections together. Although no cap was called for at the time, the building’s owner has since asked Berger Iron Works to install caps.

In retrospect, Eckhardt feels the job was a cautionary tale about acquiescing too easily to every demand of the architects. In this case, the architects’ fetish for such precise tolerances proved to problematical and costly.

“The lesson is that you don’t agree to something that’s outside the standards of what you’re building,” says Eckhardt,

“You work with the tolerances the manufacturer tells you you have.”

Even the 15–20% premium that Craftsman had to charge for the fine cutting of each piece wasn’t even worth it to the glass company. Hence, their reluctance to repeat that service.

The moral is, if common sense or experience tell you that a certain specification will be more trouble than it’s worth, tell the customer. And be firm.

Ultimately everyone will be happier.

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The lessons learned from these three jobs are as follows. It starts with the design. Make sure it’ll work.

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Keynote theme: Know your customer better “The best one hour class I have taken anywhere . . . ever!,”

said Dave White, Jr. of Locinox USA, Countryside, IL. Those remarks about METALfab2014 keynote speaker Sam Richter hit the mark with the standing-room-only audience ready to soak in useful information at NOMMA’s annual education seminars, trade show, awards banquet, and shop tours.

Richter’s talk last March focused on how fabricators can make a strong first impression with customers by knowing more about them. He stressed that fabricators can use Internet search tools to discover customer personnas before you meet them.

Richter showed attendees how to use simple Boolean search techniques to narrow search so that the results are on target.

Webopedia (http://bit.ly/1p0Cl1l) defines Boolean search as a search engine technique that allows users “to combine keywords with operators such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results.”

One type of Boolean search is combining words with the Boolean operator “AND.” In the Webopedia example of “hotel” AND “New York,” the search result would be limited only to documents containing those two words. Richter also noted other operators, such as +, OR, -, (i.e. AND, OR, NOT) with or without quotation marks to manipulate our search. Placing quotation marks around a phrase will result in pulling documents that contain that exact phrase.

Richter told attendees how he prepared for a client meeting by searching for articles about the company and found that the client had just won an industry award. He opened his conversation congratulating the client, who apparently was impressed that Richter had done his homework. He won the job.

He suggested that if you can use the Internet to do your research more effectively, then you can open your personal or phone conversation with information that might give you a competitive advantage.

As a live example, Richter used new NOMMA President Mark Koenke and NEF Co-Chair Lynn Parquette. He proceeded to tell attendees details about the two of them that he had uncovered that was both amusing and impressive.

100 attend shop tours

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The tour’s first stop was at Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool. A Platinum Sponsor of METALfab2014. Mittler provided a barbeque lunch and tour hosted by Mike Mittler. Attendeses saw the MB 63 World Truck Series entry. This truck recently ran 190 mph at Daytona.

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Keynote speaker Sam Richter, in center of top photo, was a hit.

He is shown with Carl Grainger, Grainger Iron Works, at left, and Mark O’Mally, O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc. Checking out a galvanizing operation at AZZ Galvanizing during the shop tours, middle photo. From left, Mason Hains and Max Hains, Mofab Inc.; Clinton Shaw, AZZ Galvanizing; and David Gore, La Forge De Style LLC. METALfab is all about networking and sharing, bottom photo.

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METALfab201 Review Opening new gateways The next stop, L.E. Sauer Machine Co. has expanded its CNC machining capabilities and added laser cutting, fabricating, and heat treating. Now the company has almost complete in-house control of the production of Sauer System parts and is a single source supplier for many customers. Sauer is a large operation with many production areas.

One project on display was a bronze cast bust of Prescott Bush that soon will be displayed at the Pentagon.

Classic Metal Craft Inc. was next.

Welcomed by owner Peter Zadrozinski, CMC offers a range of products from standard wrought-iron fencing and handrails to custom-designed hand-forged decorative ironwork. The company had a circular stair rail in the works. They do a lot of advertising in the local home and garden magazine.

Attendees at AZZ Galvanizing saw metal dipped, and the air escape and steam as the metal was submerged several times first into a preparation bath, then into a rinse, and finally into the hot dip galvanize solution. Vats are kept at a high temperature constantly due to the time it takes to reheat them.

J.R. Molina, Big D Metalworks, hands over the NOMMA presidency to Mark Koenke, Germantown Iron & Steel Corp.

Attendees exchange ideas during the wellattended Women in Business session, above.

At the NOMMA Education Foundation reception, NEF trustee Carl Grainger, Grainger Iron Works, left, and NEF cochair, Roger Carlsen, owner, Ephraim Forge Inc.

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Roger Carlsen, above at left, moderated a roundtable discussion on employee skills and pre-testing. Panelists included, left to right, James Minter Jr., Bruce Boyler, Curt Witter, Will Keeler, and Mike Boyler.

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Below, Mike Kinnikin, Eureka Forge, and Josh Van Maren, Colorado Waterjet Co., hold a quilt made by NEF Trustee Heidi Bischmann.

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Jack and Becky Klahm, Klahm & Sons Inc., proudly show their Top Job awards.

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METALfab201 Review Awards promote the trade.

Both NOMMA and the Metal Museum have a long collaborative history. NOMMA has held events at the museum, including continuing education classes, service days, and a board meeting in 2012.

In addition to the dedicated staff, the award honors past staff members, the board of trustees, the museum’s founders, and all past donors.

The award’s namesake, Julius Blum, was the founder of Julius Blum & Co. Inc. Blum had a strong love for the ornamental metal industry and worked diligently for its cause until his death in 1942.

Award recipients are chosen by the NOMMA Nominations Committee. Julius Blum recipients are typically volunteers or organizations that “always do more than is necessary — and keep doing it!”

Contact The Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Dr., Memphis, TN 38106, 877-881-2326, www. metalmuseum.org.

Tony Leto receives Frank A. Kozik outstanding volunteer award Tony Leto, The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, received the Frank A. Kozik Award for outstanding volunteer service to the ornamental and miscellaneous metals industry during NOMMA’s 56th annual convention in St. Charles, MO, March 15.

Leto’s contributions to NOMMA and the industry include serving on NOMMA’s Technical Affairs Team. He is past chair of the Technical Committee and NOMMA Value Task Force. He has sat on these committees and task forces: Certification, Needs Assessment, Marketing, and Marketing Manager Search Team. Leto gives webinars and leads education sessions, at METALfab shows and chapter meetings.

In his current role on the Technical Affairs team, he monitors railing-related incidents around the world and provides technical assistance to members and architects. Notably, he was a key player in NOMMA’s efforts to remove the “climbable guard” language from the 2001 International Residential Code.

Leto has also held positions with the National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers.

The award’s namesake, Frank A. Kozik, was NOMMA’s first president. Kozik set an example for exceptional volunteerism by continuing to stay active in the industry long after he rotated off the board.

Contact The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, WI 53224, 888-243-6914, www.wagnercompanies.com.

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Keith Majka wins Silver Star Membership Award Keith Majka, Majka Railing Co Inc., Paterson, NJ, received the NOMMA President’s Silver Star Membership Award during the association’s 56th annual convention in St. Charles, MO, March 15.

Majka, NOMMA’s newly elected vice president and treasurer, won the honor for consistently sponsoring members. He and his staff regularly provide membership leads to NOMMA. Through his presidency of the Northeast Chapter, Majka often shares the benefits of membership.

J.R. Molina, Big D Metalworks, Dallas, TX, and NOMMA’s immediate past president said of Majka: “When I think of this award I think of some of NOMMA’s past membership chairs like the late Ernest Wiemann and the late Ed Mack, who worked tirelessly for years to build our membership.

“Last year at METALfab 2013 in Albuquerque, [Majka] could be seen working behind-the-scenes throughout the week. When some volunteers were not able to make METALfab, [he] filled in the gaps. And he is like this with all aspects of NOMMA. When there is a need, he steps up. His entire family and staff also have a strong spirit of volunteerism, whether it is helping out at METALfab or providing the legwork for a chapter meeting.”

Contact Majka Railing Co., Paterson, NJ 07501, 973-247-7603, www. majkarailing.com.

O’Malley presented with Cliff Brown honor Mark O’ Malley, O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc., Yorkville, IL, received the Cliff Brown Award at a during NOMMA’s 56th annual convention in St. Charles, MO, March 15.

Presented by the NOMMA Education Foundation (NEF) for achievement in metalworking education, O’Malley has long supported the NEF. May / June 2014 n Fabricator

“Whether he is creating education programs for the Upper Midwest Chapter, presenting at METALfab, sharing his knowledge on NOMMA ListServ, or serving on the NOMMA Board of Directors, he is always thinking about the industry he loves and supports with his knowledge,” said Roger Carlsen, NEF co-chair.

When a close friend and NOMMA Board member passed away, O’Malley created the Todd Kinnikin Grant that allows members to attend METALfab.

“No matter what the request, he is always willing to help, even inviting a new member into his shop to see how he works,” Carlsen said during the presentation.

The Cliff Brown Award is named for the founder of Hallmark Iron Works, Newington, VA, whose company has provided an annual donation to the NEF since 2002.

Contact O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc., Yorkville, IL 60560, 630553-1604, www.omalleywelding.com.

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Above, Terry Spatz Coleman, left, Sumter Coatings, and Brian Maddox, NOMMA marketing manager.

Top left, the ETemplate Systems team gives a demonstration.

Left, Pam Beckham of Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool displays a notching system.

Above, Rob Keeler chats with Guy LaPore, Abrasive & Fastening Solutions.

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METALfab201 Review Exhibitor Showcase Here’s what you missed on the vendor floor n

If you were not able to attend METALfab, the only trade show for the ornamental and miscellaneous metals industry, here’s a sampling of the products you missed, as well as a few words from the attending exhibitors.

Custom Ornamental Iron Works Ltd. Scrolls are perhaps the company’s most versatile products, says the company.

Like its balusters, the company’s scrolls are made with round, square (smooth or hammered edges) material. In addition to round and square material, scrolls are also made with flat bar. Although the company stocks standard sizes and popular styles of scrolls, they can be made to your specifications. Scrolls can add detail and flare to any gate or fence.

Contact 866-464-4766, www.customironworks.com Elite Architectural Metal Supply LLC Elite Architectural Metal offers hand-forged and cut lambs, tongues, and scrolls in bronze, aluminum, and steel all made in the U.S. These rail ends are made from Wagner handrail, but they can be made from other handrail molding. The company says it also has a custom line of one-piece cast aluminum and iron newel posts and caps, along with many custom patterns available for casting. Elite also has 316 alloy Stainless Steel Railing Systems by Lavi Railing in its product line, which already includes hammered and textured bars, Grande Forge and Lawler steel forgings, Regency railing panels, and Heritage cast iron gates and fences.

Contact 847-636-1233, www.elitearchitecturalmetal.com DoorKing Inc. DKS wireless expansion boards connect card readers, keypads, or just about any 26-bit Wiegand device to DKS 1830 series access controllers without the need to run wiring back to the controller, a time, labor, and money saver, says the company.

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an access control device is not needed.

Contact 800-826-7493 x217, www.doorking.com Locinox The newest addition to the Locinox family of gate locks is the Free Vinci mechanical code lock with aluminum housing and stainless steel mechanism. It offers the ability to secure one side with a code for entrance while leaving the other side free for exit. No batteries or electricity are required, so it’s easy to equip any gate with access control, the company says. The latch bolt adjusts 3/4-inch for perfect alignment of the lock with the post.

Contact 708-579-0286, www.locinox.com FabCAD Inc. In addition to its stateof-the-art CAD systems, the company has available on the App Store its “gamechanging” selling tool that allows you to show the customer exactly how the finished product will look on your iPad, iPad Mini, or iPhone, the company says. You can use photos of the job site or select gates from the company’s design library. You can also use your own and sell the job on the spot. No drawing required.

Contact 800-255-9032, www.fabcad.com CML USA Inc. Ercolina’s 050KD is ideal for bending pipe, tube, squares, rectangles, solids, and other profiles. It bends ferrous and non-ferrous materials ¼ to 2½ inches and accepts Ercolina’s two-axis A40/P positioning table for multiple and sequential bends. A heavy-duty gear case accommodates radii up to 117/8 inches centerline radius. Standard tooling is available in multiple radii from stock with CLR Fabricator n May / June 2014

METALfab201 Review Exhibitor Showcase as small as two times diameter. The company says operator friendly control programs bend angles to 180° with individual spring back setting.

Contact 563-391-7700, www.ercolina-usa.com King Architectural Metals Volume 4 of King Metals’ Design Concepts Catalog is now available in print, CD and online, the company says. This 464-page book contains inspirations for staircases, railings, gates, fences, interior and exterior décor, and more — each with a downloadable .dwg file when you request a free CD or visit the online catalog at http://bit.ly/1mT4up1.

Contact 800-542-2379, www.kingmetals.com Architectural Iron Designs Inc. DuraGates Cantilever Gate Hardware works for openings of up to 60 feet and a weight of more than 4,000 pounds. It is easy to install and durable with minimal visible hardware that avoids many of the usual maintenance and efficiency problems due to dust and snow, the company says. The hardware can be used on a variety of gate materials including steel, aluminum, stainless steel, wood, chainlink, and vinyl. The products are manufactured in Italy by Fratelli Comunello sPA. Contact 800-784-7444, www.duragates.com The Cable Connection .625˝

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The company says since it saves labor time to drill both end posts of a cable railing installation to the same dimensions, Ultra-tec is now offering Pull-Lock swageless fittings for 1½-, 2-, 23/8-, and 3-inch square tube. These Pull-Locks match the OD and length of the Invisiware Receiver tensioning devices used at the other end. Both end fittings fit flush through their respective tube with only the outside cap showing. Pull-Locks are made entirely of stainless steel, pri2.405˝ marily Type 316, for 1/8 inch and 3/16 inch cable.

Contact 800-851-2961, www.thecableconnection.com 2.641˝ Colorado WaterJet Co. Abrasive Waterjet can cut near-net or final shapes, including holes, out of any material, any May / June 2014 n Fabricator

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thickness, without creating a heat-affected zone. Standard tolerances are ±0.010 inch for thickness up to 2 inches.

Tighter tolerances of ±0.005 or better are achievable. The cut is smooth with no burr or slag. The cutting envelope is 78 x 156 x 8 inches. The new Dynamic XD Waterjet machine can cut without taper, yielding much higher precision than standard waterjet, the company says. Angles can be cut up to 45° to make bevels, countersinks, and angled holes.

Contact 970-532-5404, www.coloradowaterjet.com Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool The company offers a single-speed Ultimate Tube Notcher for stairs, gates, and furniture work. Among the features, the company says, are: special end mills for 1.25-, 1.5-, and 2-inch pipe, which are designed for fast metal removal; vise capacity that can be upgraded from 0.75 inch to 2.375 inches; swivel vise with 1° increments; a V-block design for quick setup; maximum diameter 2 inches OD standard vise, 2.375 inches OD upgraded vise.

Contact 800-467-2464, www.mittlerbros.com Lavi Industries Prefabricated cable railing posts simplify installation and eliminate welding. The company offers an affordable, low maintenance, and easy-to-install railing option for residential or commercial applications, the company says.

Durable and virtually invisible, they allow for unimpaired views. They are available with many options, such as floor or 1.562˝ 2.03˝ facia mount, 36 inches or 42 inches post height, 1/8-inch or 3/16-inch1.825˝ cable, and numerous handrail options.

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Feeney Inc. The company’s CableRail Quick-Connect fittings feature a swiveling body allowing full cable tensioning in a more 3.03˝ compact design. The patented, automatic-locking Quick-Con3.266˝ nect jaws provide the flexibilPUL-4-3.030/PUL-6-3.030 ity and economy of assembling cables in the field. Simply insert the cable into the fitting and the spring-loaded jaws lock-on automatically, the company says.

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Contact 800-888-2418, www.feeneyinc.com C & C Industrial Sales The company distributes a variety of liquid and powder finishing equipment, spray booths, ovens, and filters.

The Ransburg No. 2 Gun, an applicator for on-site finishing, offers high transfer efficiency, better productivity, reduction of operator fatigue, and higher quality finishes, the company says. Typical uses include metal furniture, lockers, fences, railings, tubing, and file cabinets.

Contact 855-ASK-CCIS, www.ccisinc.com Alloy Casting Co. Inc. Alloy Casting Co. produced the curved panel, part 9974. It was cast flat in a proprietary bendable alloy, EC5. After pouring, the panel was bent on a 3-foot radius, the company says.

Dimensions are 26 x 26 x 3/4 thick; weight 14 pounds. It meets the 4-inch code.

Contact 800-527-1318, www.alloynet.com The Wagner Companies Wagner’s Slip-Fit Systems use stock or custom Wagner rail ends, wall returns, flanges, and pre-cut pipe that make assembly and installation quick and easy, the company says. Assemble and mount wall railing in a fraction of the time required for a welded railing with no unsightly gaps at butt joints, the company says. It also meets the graspability requirements of 2010 ADA. Combined with Lumenrail light sticks and hardware, you can create an LED lighted handrail assembly.

Contact 888-243-6914, www.wagnercompanies.com Regency Railings The company offers components for any staircase regardless of radius, slope, and any level railing regardless of radius with the following limitations. Regency’s components are designed for use on any incline radius greater than 30 inches and inclines of 52° or less. The level railing components were designed for a radius 44

greater than 28 inches. Use on a tighter radius or greater degree of incline might require significant modification to allow installation and to pass codes, the company says.

Contact 214-742-9408, www.regencyrailings.com ETemplate Systems ELaser is the combination of state-of-the-art 3D laser technology and custom designed Measure Manager software that generates a 2D/3D CAD model as measurements are taken. The laser includes live video, photography for jobsite documentation, and zoom lens with crosshair for precise targeted measurements up to 150 feet. It is suited for elevated or distant measurements as well as short range. It operates with Wi-Fi, and projects DXF data onto jobsite surfaces for installation layout, the company says.

Contact 919-676-2244, www.ETemplateSystem.com Lawler Foundry The newest addition to the Lawler Gold Medal Hardware line is the Mammoth Self Closing Hinge, a hydraulic swing gate closer and bearing hinge in one aluminum housing and stainless steel mechanism. The Mammoth is ADA compliant, opens smoothly, and closes gates up to 330 pounds and 4-feet wide. Closing speed and final closing action are independently adjustable, and it mounts easily with patented Quick-fix hardware, the company says.

Contact 800-624-9512, www.lawlerfoundry.com Sumter Coatings Inc. Metal Master Satin Shield Enamel is a modified resin blended with rust inhibiting pigments to provide a one-coat primer/finish especially for ornamental and miscellaneous metals, the company says. Satin Shield is direct-to-metal and fast dries hard in 24 hours. In an assortment of colors, it is lead and chrome-free and can be used as a prime coat and/or top coat. Satin Shield can be used over most primers. The low gloss reduces damage caused by rough handling.

Contact 888-847-3662, www.sumtercoatings.com Hebo Hebo Ornamental Machines can work with steel, aluminum, copper, bronze, brass, and stainless. Twist up to Fabricator n May / June 2014

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1.25-inches steel cold and 1.5-inches aluminum. The scroll machine can scroll up to ¾ x ¾-inches solid steel cold.

The embossing attachment can hammer up to 2 x 2-inches tubing and up to 1 x 1-inches solid square, and texture flat bar up to ⅜ x 2 inches, the company says. The end-forging attachment can forge solid square material up to 1 x 1 inch and flat bar up to ⅜ x 2 inches. The hydraulic table has a 24-ton capacity that allows you to bend multiple sizes of steel cold.

Contact 503-722-7700, www.usahebo.com Industrial Coverage Under the guidance of NOMMA, Industrial Coverage has created a specialty insurance plan offered exclusively through Foremost Small Business, the company says. The company can quote your workers comp, general liability, auto, umbrella, and property insurance.

Contact 631-736-7500 x120, http://industrialcoverage.com Guardian Gate Hardware

The company’s Guardian and Gorilla hinges (as well as aluminum and aluminum/steel combos) may be mounted flat, round, or bolted on. Guardian hinges are fully lubricated, rated up to 3,000 pounds per pair. Guardian and Gorilla hinges have a roller bearing design with the largest weld surface, the company says. Gorilla hinges’ pin design works for high-security applications, such as detention centers and luxury homes. Hinges come with a lifetime limited warranty.

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LiftMaster The LiftMaster LA500 Residential Gate Operator runs on full-time AC power and uses full battery reserve for operation on battery backup. Equipped with MyQ Technology, users can monitor and control their gate from anywhere with a smartphone. Security+ 2.0 technology eliminates interference and provides up to 2x the range of standard remotes, the company says. An Electronic Limit System maintains accurate position throughout gate travel and Advanced Traffic Management Control prevents unauthorized gate access.

Compactly designed, the LA500 features an AC run transformer powered by either 120V or 230V single-phasepower for added installation flexibility.

Contact 630-516-5329, www.liftmaster.com D.J.A. Imports Ltd. D.J.A. says it “is not your typical distributor.” It has “an eclectic catalog of products.” As a nationwide distributor, it “supports high quality products.”

D.J.A. continues to diversify its inventory with a large selection of Cantilever Gate Systems for sliding gates, adjustable hinges, heavy duty overhead tracks, ornamental steel components, hard-to-find bar stock, and “golf ” components.

As an architectural steel and gate hardware distributor, and by bringing together artisans and ideas from across the world for your projects, D.J.A. provides industrial, commercial, and residential solution. Its newest component is the “Aluminum Split Shoe.” An installation demo may be viewed at DJAImports.com.

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2013 Top Job Gold Award: Gates / Doors — Forged

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Close-up of gate handles, right, with forged square corners and slide latch.

The completed gate, below, minus the yet-to-be patched walls and floor.

McLellan Blacksmithing’s Top Job shows confidence in ability, tools, and crew to quick-think the completion a fast-tracked, forged gate job.

By John McLellan In late May 2012, the architect for a residence in

Santa Fe, NM, approached McLellan Blacksmithing, Loomis, CA, about a job for a set of forged gates and side panels to be installed at the end of a hallway into an inner courtyard. Because we were 1,200

Using FabCAD, John McLellan drew the details for approval. “A lot of the functional details were pretty sketchy from the architect,” he says. At left, hinge detail. Below, section detail. Bottom, the entry gate interior.

miles away from Santa Fe, I asked the architect how he found out about us. He said he saw my name in the Anvil’s Ring, the publication for Artist Blacksmith’s Association of North America (ABANA).

Apparently, the original blacksmith slated to do this job was going out of the country for an extended period, and the owner wanted the gate finished before he moved in. The architect had contacted numerous outfits, but none thought they could get it done in time. At that point, it was about four weeks. I told them to send me the drawings and I’d take a look.

I got the drawings from the architect by email the next day and reviewed the design. The concept was simple, but the execution would not be. The design was for a 12-foot-wide opening that was divided evenly into four panels: two gates and two side panels.

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The end vertical pieces were 1-inchsquare bar on each panel with 7/8-inchsquare bar vertical pieces spaced about 4 inches apart in between. Each piece had 16 holes punched through it to allow the passage of 7/8-inch-square bars about 4 inches apart. The top and bottom rails were ½ x 2-inch flat bar that were riveted to the vertical pieces.

A sagging challenge

Immediately I saw a problem with the gates: They would have a tendency to sag significantly. Moreover, the owner wanted the gates to be traditional with no arc welding.

I sent the architects revised drawings showing ways to modify the design slightly to eliminate the sag.

The owner was in London, however, and couldn’t be reached easily to approve changes. The architect insisted we keep the original design.

I gave him a price and sent a contract noting that the gates would likely sag.

At that point, we were down to about three weeks before the deadline.

Then I waited for a few days for the architect to settle things with the owner. The owner called me from a restaurant in London and wanted a guarantee that we would be done on time. I told him he could keep the last payment of $8,000 if we didn’t complete it on time. We were stuck with the sag problem because the architect didn’t want to raise the issue.

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Two weeks to go

After the owner approved the job, I flew to Santa Fe. Now, we were down to two weeks. The house looked like a traditional adobe structure but wasn’t. It was insulated concrete forms filled with concrete plastered on the outside of the walls with adobe. The floors were brick set in sand, and they were perfectly flat.

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saved the trip. The measurements he’d sent me earlier were spot on, no surprises. We discussed the installation plans, and I flew home to get started.

The issue now was how were we going to accomplish this in two weeks?

We threw around numerous ideas to shortcut it.

Waterjet cutting the vertical pieces seemed like a viable way to speed things up. I got a waterjet outfit in Sacramento to cut parts for us, but it wasn’t working well. They weren’t coming out clean, and it was taking too long. Right away, we gave up on having them cut the holes, just the outside profile.

We found cutting the outer shape didn’t provide any advantage because of the time it takes to cut such long, thick pieces on the waterjet. To get them in a reasonable time, they had to speed up the cut and the quality went downhill fast. My shop guys spent days cleaning up the bars before we could start the holes.

We found a much better way was to use 7/8 x 1½-inch bars and forge down to 7/8 inch square between the holes with a power hammer — much cleaner and faster.

We wanted to use an ironworker to punch the rough holes, but 7/8-inchsquare holes through 7/8-inch and 1-inch, thick material wasn’t really going to work.

From previous experimenting, I’d found that drilling a ½-inch hole through the bars allowed the punch to go through the material easily, even though we were using 5/8 x ¾ punches — smaller holes than the material thickness (a “no-no” in punching holes with an ironworker).

Punching square slots on the ironworker allowed us to go a lot quicker once we got the pieces in the forge. We didn’t have to worry about lining up the punch or finding where the next hole would go. I did some test pieces 50

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and made some gauges for the hole spacing so we could determine how much the bars would stretch to allow for that.

The Sacramento area in the summer can be nice or really hot. The week we started forging was over 105° all week, but we settled into a routine quickly.

One crew member kept a hot piece ready all the time in the coke fire. The coke fire gave us the best heat, and we confined it to the area we were working on. Another blacksmith pulled the pieces from the fire and placed the punch, and two guys were strikers to drive the punch through.

With this system, we could punch and drift the hole to the correct size and adjust the length to the gauge in two heats per hole. There were 512 holes to do.

One week to go

By the end of the first week, we had all the holes punched, and all the horizontal bars forged. They had upset ends and were hammered for

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texture. We thought we were doing well.

However, we lost Mark to a serious burn when he grabbed a bar on the wrong end when it went back into the fire. Easy to do at a black heat.

Assembling. Then we started to assemble.

Right away we discovered a big difference in length between hot and cold bars — even at All the vertical pickets ready to adjust only 4 inches apart on the holes. The gauge fit one so the horizontal pieces would perfectly when the bars were hot, but run through them all. Unfortunately, wouldn’t go when they were cold. that meant shrinking the distance by So, we stretched a bit between each hammering on the end of the bar to hole. That was easy with the power make the hot area shorter and fatter hammer. Even though the gauge hit between most of the holes to correct four holes at a time to maintain consisthe lengths. tency, it wasn’t close enough. The holes Enter new technology. We got could be off a ⅓ inch and still fit the an induction forge to heat between gauge, but over 16 holes, nothing fit. the holes. What a wonderful tool. We The solution. Pick one bar as the needed to get a good heat between the “best,” and then fit each bar to the best holes without getting the area around

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Assembling the gate.

Top left, left to right, Andrew McLellan, Brandt Peterson, and John Barron.

John is driving in the horizontal pieces. Brandt and Andrew are spacing the vertical parts.

Dennis Dusek, top right, is upsetting the ends of the horizontal bars in the gates. The assembled panel in front is ready to be drilled and riveted.

Mark Kochan, left, is riveting the top bar on a gate.

the hole hot. A torch was a possibility, but the induction forge worked wonders. We could get a good yellow heat for a couple inches between the holes in a minute or less. It took three days to get everything adjusted and ready to put together.

Four days to go

Time was getting short, but we were still on track. It was Thursday afternoon and the gate had to be installed by Tuesday. I needed two days to drive to Santa Fe with the gate, so I was hoping to get out of Loomis on Saturday.

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New requirement. The architect called to say the owner wanted handles on the gate now. I got an extra day for that.

Now I’m frantically forging handles (my shoulder was marginally better; I could at least pick up a hammer) while the other crew was putting everything together by sliding all the horizontal bars through the vertical ones, drilling all the holes, and riveting everything together.

By Saturday afternoon, everything was assembled, but the finish still had to be done. Everyone was worn out by then. We worked straight through

since starting and the crew was ready to be done.

The finish. My shop crew had worked hard on this also, drilling holes, running the ironworker, wire wheeling everything so it was ready for the wax when we got the gates assembled, and keeping the other jobs in the shop going. I told them I’d take care of the finish and let everyone go home.

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Induction forges heat small areas of a piece without affecting rest of it Induction heating offers a controlla-

ble and localized method of heating without contact to the parts (components) being heated.

High-frequency electricity heats materials that are electrically conductive.

Because this heating is non-contact, the process does not contaminate the material being heated.

It is also efficient because the heat is generated inside the workpiece.

This can be contrasted with other heating methods by which heat is generated in a flame or heating element, which is then applied to the workpiece.

For these reasons, induction heating lends itself to some unique applications in industry.

How does induction heating work?

A source of high-frequency electricity drives a large alternating current through a coil, known as the work coil.

The passage of current through this coil generates an intense and rapidly changing magnetic field in the space within the work coil. The workpiece that is to be heated is placed

Front of induction unit. Foot pedal controls on-off or can be set up to turn on a set amount of time for each heat. Photos at right, show a piece inserted cold and the heat on this piece after about 30 seconds.

within this intense alternating magnetic field.

What are the advantages?

Induction forges are efficient at heating small areas to a high temperature without having much effect

on the rest of the material.

For processes such as forging tenons on the end of a bar or making sharp bends where a longer heat would make the bend difficult to control, an induction forge can’t be beat.

It is also has the fastest start-up time — less than a minute from turning on the machine to having a part ready to forge.

— John McLellan

load the truck. Each panel weighed over 300 pounds, not easy to move around. By Sunday afternoon, I was finally on the road.

I made it to Kingman, AZ, to stop for the night. Monday morning I headed to Albuquerque to meet Brett.

I had NOMMA member Don Best, who has a shop in Albuquerque pick him up at the airport because I wasn’t going to get in until late. I met Don at the NOMMA Convention in Tulsa, and he let us use his place as a base in case we needed a shop.

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they arise.

When we arrived at the site, the landscaping crew helped carry the pieces in. We started by drilling the holes in the wall for the horizontal pieces. Then we set the posts and put in all the horizontal pieces in the side panels. They were left loose on the side panels to make them easier to install.

Once the horizontal pieces were in, we hung the gates.

With all the sweat and heartache we had invested in building the gates, we were amazed how well everything went. All the horizontal pieces in the gates lined up with the side panels when the gate was open. We weren’t sure that was going to happen.

Oh, about the sagging On site: side panels and one gate installed. The contractor took out some bricks in the floor and poured footings for us to attach the posts to.

By 3 p.m. we had it all in and everything worked. The gate did sag, as predicted, but it was less than 3/8 inch and didn’t interfere with the function. We messed with the finish a bit and showed the grounds maintenance person how to reapply the wax to maintain the finish. By 5 p.m., we headed back to Don’s in Albuquerque to celebrate.

We got it done and didn’t need the extra day!

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About the author John McLellan is owner of McLellan Blacksmithing, Loomis, CA. In the fourth grade, McLellan found a few old books and started playing with blacksmithing. In high school, he learned welding and horseshoeing, putting himself through college. McLellan continued as a farrier for 25 years, always working on small forged projects.

By the late 1980s the market for architectural metalwork was coming into full swing. McLellan got a contractor’s license and went to his first NOMMA convention in 1989.

McLellan is president of the California Blacksmith Association and on the board of ABANA. His company, McLellan Blacksmithing, has four full-time employees and a few part-time as needed.

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Shop Talk

Walkin’ NOMMA’s ROI talk More than talk, here’s how working collaborations among NOMMA members pay off in real money.

By Peter Hildebrandt The skills that fabricators have are

plentiful and the resources they have as NOMMA members are significant. A most useful resource is the members themselves. For while they are quite busy with their own work, many members never fail to help a member colleague in need.

One of the more lucrative benefits NOMMA offers is networking because it has resulted in job collaborations between two members.

One member, Past President J.R. Molina, Big D Metalworks, Dallas, even points out that aside from using the NOMMA website member locator, contacting Todd Daniel, NOMMA’s executive director, might yield the name of someone who can help you.

For a variety of reasons, members can’t always do an entire job by themselves. Often a member’s first look is to another NOMMA member with whom to partner. Reticence is not an appropriate trait when looking for help. A member often can work more quickly, less expensively, or more efficiently with the help of another shop’s services, equipment, or work force.

Simply typing a quick email or picking up the phone works wonders.

Let’s take a look at a few member collaborations, how they came to be, and what the specific benefits were.

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A partner for special work Bailey Metal Fabricators, Keeler Iron Works

NOMMA Board of Director member Greg Bailey, Bailey Metal Fabricators, Mitchell, SD, worked with another NOMMA member and Immediate Past President Will Keeler, Keeler Iron Works, Memphis, TN, on a structural fall-protection framework that was shipped only 40 miles from Bailey’s location to Salem, SD. For Keeler, the shipping cost alone from his Memphis shop would have been almost as much as what the project cost.

Keeler asked Bailey to bid on the project, and the two ended up working together. Bailey fabricated the project in his South Dakota shop and then shipped it to be galvanized in Omaha, NE, before shipping to the final location in Salem, SD. The shop in Omaha, Valmont Coatings, was the closest galvanizer that could do 50-foot material.

The cost of the shipping was included in Bailey’s bid to Keeler. It would have been too expensive for Keeler to ship the 5,000 pounds of material from Memphis to South Dakota.

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What you'll learn n The benefits of collaborative work

by NOMMA members. n Steps to help you start a

collaborative effort. n How your business can expand

through collaboration. n The essential ingredients that

make collaboration work for NOMMA members. n When collaboration might not be

a good fit.

About the author Peter Hilde­brandt is a long-time senior writer for Fabricator. He specializes in writing company profiles.

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Some of the pieces on this job were 50 feet long, something that typically cannot ship inexpensively, Bailey says.

“It seemed to work out well for both of us,” adds Bailey. “The work consisted of some structural beams and columns for a fall-protection device used in the process of loading semi trailers; if they fall when they’re working high above the ground, the lanyard will catch them.”

Bailey doesn’t have many resources close by because he is in a remote location. Other members have more of those resources closer. They might have another fabricator in the same town that can do some of that forging, braking, rolling, and other tasks.

“I can’t say enough about NOMMA, it’s helped us a whole lot

because we don’t have the resources in this area that some of the other members have,” Bailey says. “But despite that, we still have access to those things, via NOMMA members, without a problem. I can get anything I want from another NOMMA member in a timely manner. It makes life easier for us and allows us to offer things that we normally would turn away.”

Taking over a job Bailey Metal Fabricators, Structural Components Fabrication

For another job, Bailey had a referral from Darrell Jerden, Structural Components Fabrication, Martinsville, IN, who he met in Orlando at a NOMMA convention after a shop tour at the meeting.

Later in 2012, Jerden had a contractor friend from the Indianapolis, IN, area who was working in Sioux Falls, SD. Jerden contacted Bailey for structural steel, installation, and other railing work on a loading dock.

“He sent that contractor to us because we were local rather than trying to ship it from Indianapo-

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lis to here,” explains Bailey. “This was a specialty remodel project involving a lot of field-fitting. He sent the project to us, and we fabricated the project here and went and installed it.”

Darrell Jerden This project came during a slow December. This was a nice project, Bailey says, because it came when they typically don’t have a lot of work.

Jerden describes this job as a simple operation: A contractor he’d worked with for 35 years in central Indiana had a job in South Dakota. The contractor wanted Jerden to provide the steel and install the job.

“It was a relatively small project that was going to be time-intensive . . . as well as something where we couldn’t do all the work at one time,” Jerden says.

“But it just didn’t make any sense for me to do that; I couldn’t afford the time it would require to do that job,” Jerden says. “I told [the contractor] I’d see if I could find one of my NOMMA associates who would be interested in doing the job. I’d met Greg [Bailey] and his wife at a NOMMA convention and remembered that they were nearby. I called, sent them the drawings I had, and they said they’d be interested. The rest as they say is history.”

Jerden is doing another job for that same contractor who has nothing but positive things to say about Bailey and his crew, Jerden says.

“I didn’t make any money off this,” Jerden says, “but I kept my contractor happy, kept this relationship in place. I was the one that had the contact with the contractor; I was the ‘matchmaker’.”

Jerden believes that the interaction at NOMMA conventions is a key to establishing relationships. NOMMA members get to know each other, know what type of person they are, sit in seminars for hours at a time with them, and listen to one another talk about fabrication.

As a result, a member learns who is qualified to do different types of work.

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because you will know your client will be taken care of.

A job too far Wiemann Metalcraft, Zimmermann & Hughes Landmark Design

Doug Bracken, Wiemann Metalcraft, Tulsa, OK, is also far from the coasts where there are many resources for fabricators. Bracken has come to truly rely on collaborative efforts with NOMMA member shops to grow his business.

In 1999, Chris Hughes, Zimmermann & Hughes Landmark Design, Hawley, PA, at that time a fellow NOMMA member, contacted Bracken, who had a substantially larger shop and crew than Hughes. But Hughes’ shop was closer to the east coast where many of Wiemann’s customers are located.

Over the next 14 years, Bracken has worked for them, and they have worked for Bracken, perhaps some 10 times on projects all over the country that are quite extraordinary, Bracken says.

Helping competitor: good will Wiemann Metalcraft, DeAngelis Iron Work

5 partnership pointers and benefits 1 Provide product samples so

incentive for joining NOMMA.

the company you’re working with understands the quality of the work you are expecting to provide.

As NOMMA members, they can find additional work by forming relationships with other members.

2 Collaboration helps when you’re in a bind. It could mean

5 NOMMA members have directly improved revenues by finding work partners via the

you can sell more product because Company XYZ can actually build this project for you.

3 Writing a contract for collaborative work includes cover-

ing the same things included in any other contract you deal with, some NOMMA members say. Members typically rely on people in their sales departments who already assemble such documents to do the same with a contract for collaborative work.

4 Some NOMMA members feel that collaborative efforts show non-members another

association’s highly regarded interactive programs: n METALfab: the association’s annual convention and trade show. n ListServ: the active online discussion forum. n Top Job competition: the entrants and award winners. n Find a Member: a function on the NOMMA website. n NOMMA committees and officers: meet people by volunteering to serve. n O&MM Fabricator magazine: reading this magazine for names of potential partners.

In 2009, when Bracken was working near Boston on a large residential project, circumstances demanded modification of an involved section of stair railing that would have to be done with heat in a proper shop. He called on his friend and former NOMMA board member Chris Connelly, DeAngelis Iron Work, South Easton, MA. Bracken was working as a competitor in Chris’ own backyard.

“I called Chris and told him I was in the area and wanted to buy him lunch,” Bracken says. “Then I told him I was in a tough spot and needed a table in his shop for a day. Chris invited me into his shop to finish the work.

“We have a great relationship through our years of working together on the NOMMA board. Still, this [was] work we competed with him for, and yet he was kind to let me make the modifications in his shop. I couldn’t have done it anywhere else,” Bracken says.

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forum only for members, and through the member locater on the NOMMA website. He also uses his knowledge of the entrants to NOMMA’s Top Job competition, people he’s met at conventions, and others who through his time with the association do work similar to his.

“I just network,” adds Bracken. “I pick up the phone and start calling people. We define the work in contractual form; it’s just like subcontracting anything else, going to a machine shop or to some other vendor that’s doing some custom work for you. You’ve got to define the scope, put a price tag and time frame to it and keep everybody accountable.”

Benefits include developing relationships with people who are in a similar industry and who understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses so that you can call on them when you need help; then they can call on you.

“Once you get [a collaborative job] behind you, the next makes more sense and is a better fit,” adds Bracken. “A col­ la­boration is not as strange the second or third time. That’s the benefit of building stronger business relationships.”

Taking over a job Big D Metalworks, Art’s Work Unlimited

J.R. Molina at Big D has used NOMMA members for project help.

His company, though based in Dallas, works in Washington, California, the Carolinas, Atlanta, and Florida.

A recent project in Miami Beach involved a glass rail system that another company — not a NOMMA member — had installed. The customer wasn’t happy with the quality of work and contacted Big D to remove the existing rail, fabricate a better

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one, and install it before the crowds of Cinco de Mayo revelers would make the work impossible — a tight schedule. Molina had actually bid on the project originally but did not win it because his price was too high.

The glass and cladding onsite had been fabricated improperly. Molina had to order glass that would not be ready for a week.

“But it didn’t make sense for us to send three guys back to Miami with the costs of traveling, per diem, hotels, and all that is involved with that to do eight hours of work,” Molina says.

“We went to the NOMMA website, got on the member locator, and found Art’s Work Unlimited, only J.R. Molina a half hour away from the jobsite in Miami Beach.”

Molina knew the company did quality work, the type of work Big D is accustomed to doing. It worked out.

Art’s Work Unlimited met the challenges involved. And Big D sent only one employee to the jobsite from Texas, instead of three, and met the deadline.

Art’s Work Unlimited “saved us a great deal of money from traveling out that way,” Molina says. “It was a winwin for them, too, because they were only a half hour away from the project. [Art’s Work Unlimited] got taken care of for a day’s worth of work.”

Molina feels that without his affiliation with NOMMA, Big D wouldn’t have the contacts necessary to help the company quickly find help. Though you can search the Internet for other fabricators, you won’t have the personal history or experience with the fabricator that you get when you are a NOMMA member.

Recommendations get jobs Big D Metalworks Alamance Iron Works

Another collaborative project for Big D was in North Carolina. It dealt with 60 feet of glass rail, which was not a large enough project for Big D to travel to. For this job, Molina contacted NOMMA’s Todd Daniel who sent him a few North Carolina contacts.

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Partnering with your nonmember competition can be beneficial Heirloom Stair & Iron, J.T. Cooper Studio

Ben Moseley, Heirloom Stair & Iron, Campobello, SC, and longtime NOMMA member has found good luck collaborating with local metalworking establishments — not necessarily NOMMA members.

Moseley understands that local fabricators may view themselves as competitors. He feels another way to view your competitor is as a resource for information or project help.

Every company has strengths and weaknesses, Moseley says. Moreover, he feels that for people to think they have all the strengths and your competition has all the weaknesses may not always be the best way to think about a rival business.

“They’re in business and they’re making it for a reason; they are doing something right,” Moseley says.

“If you look at them and say ‘what kind of resources can I pull from them?’, if you are able to establish that relationship where they will trust you to work on a project with you rather than view you only from a negative aspect, [then] any smart business person will tell you competition is not a bad thing.”

Competition is good for the economy, good for the client base, and good to help you stay sharp. Viewing competitors as a resource, not a threat, changes the entire dynamic of the relationship.

“Once you get past the ‘I’m the best there ever is’ attitude, you can take advantage of other resources,” adds Moseley.

One project that Moseley collaborated on was a huge light fixture to a hotel in Vail, CO. A shop close to Moseley’s, J.T. Cooper Studio, Tryon, NC, actually won the project but were unable to finish it. They are coppersmiths, and since they were awarded the bid on the project, they were able to involve Moseley. J.T. Cooper Studio had a good reputation and is UL Listed, which Moseley is not.

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lets the two competing business collaborate on projects they may not ordinarily have worked on together.

The competition is viewed as a per Studio brought their all-handforged, 8-foot-diameter chandelier to resource rather than the enemy.

One particular project the two Moseley. “J.T. Cooper Studio didn’t companies worked on involved a have the background to forge out large staircase for a private school in the steel for this structure, being a downtown Greenville, SC. Moseley coppersmith,” explains Moseley. “We admits that if he hadn’t had the in turn, did not have the know-how relationship with Creative Iron or the UL Listing to do the electrical Works he doubts he would have gotwiring on this fixture.” ten the work.

This entire project was “Why in the world would built and fabricated within you let the job go to your Moseley’s shop. competitor if you don’t Since the completion of already have that connecthe light fixture, Moseley has tion already in place. In this collaborated on several projcase, Calloway and I worked ects. If a light fixture needs together.” to be UL-certified, he can get In essence, Calloway could that for a customer because Ben Moseley not handle the staircase job by J.T. Cooper Studio will now himself for three reasons: wire and certify the fixtures for him.

1 The architect needed AutoCAD Moseley now has a new product to drawings — something Moseley sell — UL Listed lights. could provide but Calloway’s could “That’s been phenomenal for our not. business to be able to ride his coat2 The shear size of the staircase tails so to speak and sell projects that I just would not have been able to sell meant Calloway didn’t have the room to handle the job. before, and I now have this relation3 Calloway did not have the workship with him,” Moseley says. ers to build the staircase as well as Heirloom Stair & Iron, move it into place with the required Creative Ironworks vehicles.

Another collaboration involved But Calloway was still able to get a competitor, Creative Ironworks, the job because of his relationship Greenville, SC. with Heirloom.

This shop is also in Moseley’s area “This was a case where a major but is smaller. Because of the limited project came to you that you didn’t size of his shop, owner Ryan Callohave to sell or manage, someone else way now works in Moseley’s shop and [Calloway] was managing it. So you helps Moseley with project manageare doubling your output, increasing ment every Monday and Tuesday. your income and profitability,” MoseThat is extremely beneficial, says ley says.

Moseley, because Calloway works the “In effect you are Xeroxing yourtwo days with an ownership mentality. self as a business owner for a short “Instead of viewing him as a time period,” he says. What shop threat, I view him as a resource helpowner would not like to have such an ing me manage these more custom opportunity? projects on those days that he’s in my “I’ll admit that it doesn’t work shop. I am able to do other things,” with all shops out there,” adds Moseley. “But once you find somebody Moseley adds. who is willing to work with you, now Calloway has brought Moseley you have the potential to establish some substantially sized projects to that relationship that we at Heirloom his shop because Calloway did not have the work force to handle them.

Stair & Iron have found especially The level of give-and-take, and trust, beneficial.”

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One, Kurt Lents, Alamance Iron Works, Greensboro, NC, was willing to help. Everything was done on time.

Molina became friends with Lents because of that job, and they later met at a NOMMA convention.

In 2010, Big D won a railing job in Vail, CO, after Doug Bracken recommended Big D when Bracken’s company, Wiemann Metalcraft, couldn’t do that project themselves. Even though the two companies didn’t work together on the project, Big D still

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Too many projects to complete Big D Metalworks, Keeler Iron Works

Last year, Big D was in the middle of a project working on 27 archways in a Dallas park. Due to work on other projects at the time, the company couldn’t fabricate the arches in time. They also knew that Keeler Iron Works in Memphis had a large structural outfit that could fabricate the arches for them.

Big D sent a sample archway to Keeler to work from. Keeler built all 27 arches and shipped them to Big D. They were installed on time.

“If it wasn’t for that NOMMA connection and knowing that Will [Keeler] had the resources and the facilities to fabricate something that large and in that time frame, we would have been in a real bind,” Molina says. “We’ve done it both ways: had NOMMA members fabricate product for us, and we’ve had NOMMA members install product for us.”

This is a nice resource to have, Molina says. There will always be bumps in the road and with Big D doing a lot of work far away from Dallas, it’s nice to call someone you know and trust for help, he says.

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aluminum pipe railing for a school located near Germantown. Specifications called for the materials to be TIG welded, ground, polished, and then clear anodized. He needed an aluminum fabricator with experience in pipe railing systems.

Koenke posted a request on NOMMA’s ListServ, the online Q&A discussion forum only for NOMMA members. Member Bill Coleman, Arc Angels Inc., Dunedin, Fl., responded: “I have over 40 years in aluminum

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rail construction and hold a patent for inventing a mechanically connected pipe rail system.”

Germantown Iron & Steel sent Cole­ man a copy of the shop drawings and specifications. Coleman then bid the work and was awarded the subcontract.

Most steel fabricators are not set up to fabricate aluminum, Coleman says.

“Normally, if they are set up for aluminum, a separate area is used to cut and weld the aluminum. Methods and equipment are different enough with aluminum work as opposed to working with iron to cause a problem for fabricators who are not experienced with aluminum.”

Coleman feels the job came to him because he is active on NOMMA’s ListServ. “The ListServ is a truly wonderful benefit of being a member of NOMMA’s family,” adds Coleman. “It gives our members the benefit of hundreds of years of combined experience in metal fabrication. Too bad we can’t add up, in dollars, the savings and being able to ‘do it right the first time’ rather then reinventing the wheel and learning by experimentation.

“Relationships between fabricators are, definitely, a positive thing. We all have the same goal in mind, providing a quality product at a reasonable price,” Coleman says. “NOMMA and its ListServ are here to assist.”

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5 Star Fabrications Jonestown, TX Gary Fiveash Fabricator A. Zahner Co. Kansas City, MO William William Zahner Fabricator A.G.S. Stainless Bainbridge Island, WA Michael Toglia Fabricator A.Y.’s Designs in Iron Inc. San Diego, CA Mark Yturralde Fabricator A-1 Southern Iron Works Denham Springs, LA Brock Sanders Fabricator A2 Fabrication Milwaukie, OR Gale Schmidt Fabricator Abarca’s Metal Design Denham Springs, LA Raul Abarca Fabricator Aberdeen Contracting Inc. dba Aberdeen Custom Gate and Iron Weatherford, TX Jeffery Presbaugh Fabricator

Accent Stair & Specialty Albuquerque, NM Tom Novak Fabricator Action Fabricators & Erectors Inc. Hyattsville, MD Martin C. Pena Fabricator Adams Steel Service Inc. McHenry, IL Michael R. Chambers Fabricator Advanced Fence & Gates Houston, TX Frank Coleman Fabricator Ahlborn Fence & Steel Inc. Santa Rosa, CA Tom Ahlborn Local Supplier Alamance Iron Works Greensboro, NC Kurt Lents Fabricator Albina Pipe Bending Co. Inc. dba Albina Co. Inc. Tualatin, OR Brian Smith Nationwide Supplier

Alfab Inc. Abrasive & Enterprise, AL Fastening Neal Brown Solutions Fabricator Yorkville, IL Allen Architectural Chris LaPore Metals Inc. Local Supplier Talladega, AL John C. Allen Accent Fence Inc. Nationwide Egg Harbor Supplier City, NJ Allen Iron Works Greg Carnesale & Supply Inc. Fabricator Birmingham, AL Accent Ornamental Jan Allen Smith Iron & Powder Fabricator Coating Co. Allen’s Cambridge, MN Iron Works LLC Michael A. Yeadon, PA Stylski Sr. Walter J. Massinger Fabricator Fabricator May / June 2014 n Fabricator

Allform Welding Inc. Carlsborg, WA Dan Donovan Fabricator Alliance Steel & Fabrications Inc. Manassas Park, VA Kenn Herrington Fabricator

Anderson Welding Artisan & Sons LLC Metal Works Ltd. Oreland, PA Grand Cayman, Robert B. Anderson Cayman Islands Fabricator Karoly Szucs Fabricator Antietam Iron Works LLC Artistic Anvil McConnellsburg, PA Metalcraft LLC Austin F Palm Harbor, FL Gunnell III Mark Dierking Fabricator Fabricator

Alliance Welding & Steel Fab. Inc. Anvil Craft Corp.

Floral Park, NY Easton, PA Frank de Oliveira Paul T. Sklodowsky Fabricator Fabricator Alloy Casting Co. Inc. Mesquite, TX Jon P. McGraw Nationwide Supplier Alpha Iron Works LLC Rochester, NY Van Economides Fabricator American Fence Association Inc. Plano, TX Tony Thornton Affiliate American Fence Company Omaha, NE Adam Flogstad Fabricator American Iron Co. St. Charles, MO Robert E. Lawrence Fabricator American Punch Co. Euclid, OH Jovan Vucenovic Nationwide Supplier American Steel & Aluminum Grand Prairie, TX Wayne Beason Fabricator Ameristar Fence Products Tulsa, OK Vona Cox Nationwide Supplier Anchor Iron Co. Savage, MN Adam Roberts Fabricator

Anvil Iron Works Inc. Philadelphia, PA William Natoli III Fabricator

Artistic Iron Works Inc. Las Vegas, NV David Spruell Fabricator Artistic Iron Works LLC Norwalk, CT Maciej Jankowski Fabricator

Atrium Homes El Paso, TX Edgar Bocardo Fabricator Austin Stairs LLC Austin, TX Robert Allen Fabricator Automated Equipment Co. Inc. Seattle, WA Brian Thorpe Fabricator AZZ Galvanizing Dixon, IL Clinton Shaw Nationwide Supplier B & O Machine & Welding Brookhaven, MS Charles Perez Fabricator

Anytime Welding Inc. San Jose, CA Randy Botkins Fabricator

Artistic Railings Inc. Garfield, NJ Tom Zuzik Jr. Fabricator

Apex Welding & Fabrication Vernal, UT Miles Weaver Fabricator

Art’s Work Unlimited Miami, FL Arthur A. Ballard Fabricator

Appalachian Ironworks Kingsport, TN John Robinson Fabricator

Atchley Steel Co. Inc. Salem, AL Kimberly Prater Fabricator

Appleby’s Ornamental Iron Tucson, AZ Randy Hauschild Fabricator

Atelier Custom Design LLC Kennewick, WA Joe Molvik Fabricator

Arc Angels Inc. Dunedin, FL Bill Coleman Fabricator

ATFAB Ironworks & Forge Plant City, FL Steve Waller Banker Wire Fabricator Mukwonago, WI Harrison Horan Atlantic Industrial Nationwide & Mechanical Inc. Supplier Baltimore, MD Gordon Clay Lau Beauty Craft Metal Fabricator Fabricators Inc. Bedford Heights, Atlas Custom OH Metalwork Brian Walnsch East Hanover, NJ Fabricator Kurt Michalka Fabricator Bedford Iron Works Bedford Hills, NY Atlas Metal Sales Phil Thomas Denver, CO Fabricator Jerry Simms Nationwide Supplier

Architectural Iron Designs Inc. Plainfield, NJ Jay Shah Nationwide Supplier Armadillo Metalworks Inc. Passaic, NJ Philippe Fiers Fabricator Armin Iron Works Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Aldo DeCiantis Fabricator

Bachtold Metal Works Jacksonville, FL Ron Bachtold Fabricator Badger Railing Milwuakee, WI Tom Mulhaney Fabricator Bailey Metal Fabricators Inc. Mitchell, SD Greg Bailey Fabricator Baker Steel Detailing Westport, MA Christine Baker Local Supplier

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NOMMA Members Bellarmine Ornamental Ironwork Inc. Machesney Park, IL Zachery A. Caccia Fabricator BenFab Inc. Lansdowne, PA Bill Bendinelli Fabricator Berger Iron Works Inc. Houston, TX Belk Null Fabricator Berryhill Ornamental Iron Broken Arrow, OK Darin Berryhill Fabricator Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights New Orleans, LA Drew Bevolo Fabricator Big Blu Hammer Mfg. Morganton, NC Josh Smith Nationwide Supplier Big C Steel Inc. Clearwater, FL Lou Ferrante Fabricator Big D Metalworks Dallas, TX Tony Martinez Fabricator Bighorn Forge Inc. Kewaskum, WI Dan Nauman Fabricator Mr. Henry Bills Delafield, WI Henry Bills Honorary Blue Mountain Metalwork Inc. Banner Elk, NC Dirk Brown Fabricator

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Boyler’s Ornamental C.R. Laurence Iron Inc. Co. Inc. Bettendorf, IA Los Angeles, CA Michael D. Boyler Paul Daniels Fabricator Nationwide Supplier Bracci Iron Works Brooklyn, NY Michael Bracci Fabricator

Brakewell Steel Fab. Inc. Chester, NY Dan Doyle Local Supplier Breeden Fine Ironwork Amherst, ME Robert Breeden Fabricator Brian’s Welding San Jose, CA Brian Padilla Fabricator Bridgeton Drafting Co. LLC Vineland, NJ David Busarello Nationwide Supplier

C.T. and S. Metalworks Irving, TX Bruce Witter Fabricator Cable Art Inc. Valencia, CA Daryl Parker Nationwide Supplier The Cable Connection Carson City, NV Lou Marino Nationwide Supplier Capitol City Iron Works Inc. Indianapolis, IN Kip Gootee Fabricator

Capone Iron Corp.

Rowley, MA Broome Welding Stephen J. Capone & Machine Co. Inc. Fabricator Galveston, TX Cardine Studios LLC H.C. Broome Bealeton, VA Fabricator Patrick Cardine Brown Machine Fabricator & Fabrication Inc. Carell Corp.

Alexander City, AL Stapleton, AL Nolen Brown David T. Donnell Fabricator Nationwide Builders Supplier Ironworks Inc. Carfaro Inc. Crete, IL Hamilton, NJ Rick Wories Joseph Carfaro Fabricator Fabricator Builders Stair Supply Carl Stahl St. Louis, MO DecorCable Chas Wiebe Innovations Fabricator Chicago, IL Patrick S. Kelly Burdette Ironworks Nationwide Mercersburg, PA Supplier Kyle Burdette Fabricator

Century Group Inc. Sulphur, LA Rob Robinson Nationwide Supplier

C & F Steel Company Inc. Hamilton, TX Warner Fox Fabricator CEO Steel Fabrication Inc. C&P Redwood City, CA Fabricators Inc. Boes Iron Works Inc. Chuck Ogren Island Park, NY New Orleans, LA Fabricator Charles Celeste Craig D. Boes Fabricator Fabricator Chancey Metal C. Sherman Johnson Products Inc. Bower Welding Co. Inc. Jacksonville, FL Casper, WY East Haddam, CT Lee Chancey Tom Bower Curt Johnson Fabricator Fabricator Fabricator Julius Blum & Co. Inc. Carlstadt, NJ Joanne Blum Nationwide Supplier

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Chapala Iron & Mfg. Co. Ventura, CA Patrick Davis Fabricator Chicago Metal Rolled Products Co. Chicago, IL George Wendt Nationwide Supplier Chicago Ornamental Iron Chicago, IL Jonathan Samek Fabricator Ciccone Custom Railing & Mfg. Toms River, NJ Robyn Ciccone Fabricator

Colorado Waterjet Co. Berthoud, CO Dan Nibbelink Nationwide Supplier

Curtal Corp.

Rockton, IL Lee Curtal Fabricator

Compass Ironworks Gap, PA Amos Glick Fabricator Complete Metal Solutions Fort Lauderdale, FL Tom McDonough Fabricator Concept Steel Inc. Gastonia, NC Michael Ryan Chapman Fabricator

Construction Services Inc. Circle M Contracting Decatur, AL Portsmouth, VA Tom Place Ray Moore Fabricator Fabricator Couturier City Welding Works Iron Craft Inc. Selwyn, ON Canada Comstock Park, MI Leo Gabourie Daniel Couturier Fabricator Fabricator Clark & Wilkins Industries Inc. New York, NY Ken Flowers Fabricator

Creative Forge Reichert Corp.

Telford, PA J. Edward Clemens Fabricator

Classic Metal Craft Inc. St. Louis, MO Peter Zadrozinski Fabricator

Creative Metal Products & Fencing Inc. Boynton Beach, FL Joshua Aaron Fabricator

CM Iron Supply LLC Tempe, AZ Richard de Faria Nationwide Supplier CML USA Inc. Ercolina Davenport, IA Kim Stevens Nationwide Supplier Coast Iron Works Wilmington, CA James Peterson Fabricator Coastal Fabrication Co. Carmel, CA Thomas George Fabricator M. Cohen & Sons Inc. Broomall, PA Allen J. Cohen Fabricator

Creative Metal Works Gulf Breeze, FL Robert Preston Fabricator Crusader Fence Co. Inc. Rancho Cordova, CA Brent Henderson Fabricator Crystal Metalworks Hatfield, PA Michael Smith Fabricator R.J. Cunningham Designs Salt Lake City, UT R.J. Cunningham Honorary Cuper Studios LLC Easton, PA Eric Cuper Fabricator

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by Josh LLC Westlake, LA Josh James Guillory Fabricator Custom Iron Inc. Zumbrota, MN Terry Driscoll Fabricator Custom Metals Inc. Madison, WI Tony Cole Fabricator Custom Orn. Iron Works Ltd. Richmond, BC Canada Marvin Henschel Nationwide Supplier Custom Ornamental Iron Inc. Glen Allen, VA John Price Fabricator Custom Steel Designs LLC Shipshewana, IN Paul Miller Fabricator Cyclops Welding Peru, IL Joe Piano Fabricator D & D Technologies (USA) Inc. Huntington Beach, CA Jim Paterson Nationwide Supplier D.B. Welding & Fab. Sarasota, FL David Brisson Fabricator D.J.A. Imports Ltd. Bronx, NY Gina Pietrocola Nationwide Supplier DAC Industries Inc. Grand Rapids, MI Dan Hickey Nationwide Supplier D’Agostino Iron Works Inc. Rochester, NY Ken D’Agostino Fabricator

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NOMMA Members Dave’s Architectural Iron LLC Paterson, NJ David Friessen Fabricator

DoorKing of Texas Ltd. Dallas, TX Paula R. Reese Fabricator

Dean Derge Orn. Iron Works Inc. Kewaskum, WI Dean Derge Fabricator

Downtown Ornamental Iron Inc. Bend, OR Ronald Richardson Fabricator

DeAngelis Iron Work Inc. South Easton, MA Chris Connelly Fabricator Decor Ironworks Dyer, IN Robert Brunner Fabricator Decorative Iron Works Hibernia, NJ Joseph Monga Fabricator Design Metals Portland, OR Brad Carlson Fabricator Disenos Ornamental Iron Detroit, MI Nieves Arzola Fabricator Distinctive Metal Dunnellon, FL Leonard Dutkiewicz Fabricator Distinctive Welding Ft. Collins, CO Randy Owsley Local Supplier Division 5 Metalworks Kalamazoo, MI Greg Terrill Fabricator Dixie Metal Products Inc. Boynton Beach, FL John Philip Schnorr Fabricator DKS, DoorKing Systems Inglewood, CA Richard Sedivy Nationwide Supplier Dominion Steel Erectors Inc. Woodbridge, VA Darwin G. Hareford Fabricator

DuBose National Energy Services Clinton, NC Richard Rogers Fabricator Dudney Ornamentals Loughman, FL Dale Dudney Fabricator Duwe Metal Products Inc. Menomonee Falls, WI Steve Garrison Fabricator Eagle Bending Machines Inc. Stapleton, AL David T. Donnell Nationwide Supplier Eagle Machine & Welding Inc. Newark, OH Wade Ranck Fabricator Eastern Metal Supply Charlotte, NC Olivia Bacon Nationwide Supplier Ebinger Iron Works Inc. Schuylkill Haven, PA William L. Miller Fabricator Eldridge Welding & Orn. Iron Inc. Eldridge, IA Wayne R. Patzer Fabricator Elegant Iron Studios West Alexandria, OH Amanda Dalton Fabricator Elephant Iron Santa Barbara, CA Peter Grim Fabricator

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Elite Architectural Metal Supply LLC Elk Grove Village, IL Lynn Parquette Nationwide Supplier Emerald Ironworks Inc. Woodbridge, VA Justin L Pigott Fabricator Engineered Building Products Inc. Bloomfield, CT Joel Smith Fabricator Ephraim Forge Inc. Frankfort, IL Roger Carlsen Fabricator EPi New Berlin, WI Eric Olander Nationwide Supplier ETemplate Systems Raleigh, NC Nick Nichols Nationwide Supplier Eureka Forge Pacific, MO Michael Kinnikin Fabricator

Feeney Inc. (Feeney Architectural Products) Oakland, CA Andrew Penny Nationwide Supplier Fence Crafters Inc. Riviera Beach, FL Louis F. Yodice Fabricator Fenceworks Inc. Riverside, CA Javier Valenzuela Fabricator Fierro Iron Works Norristown, PA Jim Haggerty Fabricator

The Gate Co. Inc. Rochester, WA David G. Bailey Fabricator

Filippi Brothers Inc. Philadelphia, PA Sam S. Filippi Fabricator

The G-S Co. Baltimore, MD Tom Schap Nationwide Supplier

Fine Architectural Metalsmiths Chester, NY Rhoda Mack Fabricator

Gates That Open LLC (GTO) Tallahassee, FL Andy Hanlon Nationwide Supplier

Finelli Architectural Iron & Stairs Solon, OH Frank M. Finelli Fabricator First Impression Security Doors Inc. Gilbert, AZ Tim Cornelius Fabricator

FabCAD Inc. White Stone, VA David G. Filippi Nationwide Supplier

Flaherty Iron Works Inc. Alexandria, VA Francis X. Flaherty Fabricator

FabCorp LLC Houston, TX Allan Hohman Fabricator

Florissant Ornamental Iron Works Inc. Florissant, MO Wayne L. Bowman Fabricator

The Fabrication Store Chester, PA Padraig Kelly Nationwide Supplier Falling Hammer Productions LLC Wolcott, CT Peter Thatcher Swarz-Burt Fabricator

Gallery Steel Waterford, MI Tom Myers Fabricator Gaspar’s Inc. dba Gaspar’s Fine Architectural Metalworks North Hollywood, CA Artur Gasparyan Fabricator

Evans Metal Products Co. Elkhart, IN David Evans Fabricator

Fable Inc. San Carlos, CA A.J. Guaspari Fabricator

Future Fence Co. Warren, MI Rick Russel Fabricator

Foreman Fabricators Inc. Saint Louis, MO Rob Rolves Fabricator Forest Mfg. Punxsutawney, PA David Miller Fabricator Fox Valley Sandblasting & Powder Coating Yorkville, IL Jim Schwebke Local Supplier

Geo. Bezdan Sales Ltd. Burnaby, BC Canada Margaret Bezdan Nationwide Supplier Germantown Iron & Steel Corp.

Jackson, WI David Gutbrod Fabricator Gerow Properties Lafayette, CA Rick Gerow Fabricator Gjertson Metalworks Ward, CO Steve Gjertson Fabricator Gold Coast Metal Works Inc. Huntington Bay, NY Alain Olivier Fabricator Goldens Bridge Unit Step Co. Inc. Carmel, NY Doug M. Weck Sr. Fabricator Gonzales Iron Works Austin, TX Andrew Ewig Fabricator

Grainger Metal Works Nichols, SC Carl Grainger Fabricator Great Southern Iron Works Roswell, GA Terri Dolive Honorary Grizzly Iron Inc. Phoenix, AZ Rodger LaBrash Fabricator Groll Ornamental Iron Works Pittsburgh, PA John A. Groll Jr. Fabricator Grunau Metals Oak Creek, WI Brad Landry Fabricator Gulf Coast Railings Inc. Tomball, TX Nic Hurst Fabricator Gutierrez Studios Inc. Baltimore, MD John K. Gutierrez Fabricator H.R. Leuenberger Inc. Allison Park, PA Robert J. Leuenberger Fabricator Hallmark Iron Works Inc. Newington, VA Charles D. Mercer Fabricator Harbor Metal Works LLC Baltimore, MD Joseph M. Marinelli Fabricator Hartford Standard Co. Inc. Simpsonville, KY Russell Broady Nationwide Supplier Hayn Enterprises LLC Rocky Hill, CT Carl Hayn Nationwide Supplier Hebo/Stratford Gate Systems Inc. Clackamas, OR Robert Rayson Nationwide Supplier 63

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NOMMA Members Heckelmann Metal Works LLC Atlanta, GA TJ Heckelmann Fabricator

Hughes Metal Works LLC Greensboro, NC Bryan James Fabricator

Heirloom Stair & Iron Campobello, SC Allyn Moseley Fabricator

Illinois Engineered Products Inc. Chicago, IL United States Dean Wynne Nationwide Supplier

Hemi Systems Commerce, GA Tom Duello Fabricator Hercules Custom Iron Walkersville, MD Evan Winston Fabricator Heritage Cast Iron USA Tulsa, OK Douglas E. Bracken Nationwide Supplier Heritage Industries Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Rob Gladu Fabricator Herndon & Merry Inc. Nashville, TN Bill Merry Jr. Fabricator Hess Ornamental Iron LLC Felton, PA Scott Hess Fabricator Hiller’s Heating & A/C Berwick, PA David Hiller Fabricator Historical Arts & Casting Inc. West Jordan, UT Robert Baird Fabricator Hoffa Inc. Houston, TX Steve Hoffa Fabricator Hubbardton Forge Castleton, VT George B. Chandler Fabricator Lloyd K. Hughes Metalsmithing Lexington, KY Lloyd K. Hughes Fabricator

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Illinois Metalwork & Custom Design LLC Chatham, IL Ray Anderson Fabricator Imagine Ironworks Brookhaven, MS James W. Minter Jr. Fabricator Indiana Gratings Inc. Martinsville, IN Doug Maginn Nationwide Supplier Industrial Coverage Corp.

Patchogue, NY Joe Romeo Nationwide Supplier Industrial Metal Center Co. WLL Kuwait City, Kuwait Giragos Kuyumjian Nationwide Supplier Innovative Metal Design Inc. Troutdale, OR Brad Carlson Fabricator Integrity Ironworks LLC Brooklyn, NY United States Aaron M. Giauque Fabricator International Creative Metal Inc. Woodside, NY Setrak Agonian Fabricator International Forge LLC Haskell, NJ Joan Shuhnicki Fabricator

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Interstate Mfg. Associates Inc. Newport, NH Craig R. Jennison Nationwide Supplier

Jansen Ornamental Supply Co. Inc. El Monte, CA Mike Jansen Regional Supplier

Kervin Bros.

Ornamental Iron Inc. Portland, OR Gary Kervin Fabricator

L.E. Sauer Machine Co. St. Louis, MO Warren Sauer Nationwide Supplier

Iron Age Architectural Metals Apopka, FL Steven M. Goldman Local Supplier

Jayco Hawaii Inc. Waipahu, HI Marc Delay Fabricator

Kettleson Custom Iron Kingston, IL Andrew Kettleson Fabricator

La Forge De Style LLC South Hackensack, NJ David B. Gore Fabricator

Iron Art & Design New Holland, PA Steve Huyard Fabricator Iron Craft Tulare, CA Chuck Simonian Fabricator Iron Decor Tulsa, OK Jason Axtell Fabricator Iron Innovations Inc. Clinton, MS Scott Colson Fabricator The Iron Hammer Murray, KY George Bandarra Fabricator The Iron Shop Broomall, PA Sam Cohen Nationwide Supplier The Iron Works Ltd. Des Moines, IA Charles R. Punelli Fabricator Iron Touch LLC Louisville, KY Sherman Blankenship Fabricator Iron Workers District Council Lakewood, WA Ron Piksa Affiliate Ironfab LLC Lancaster, OH Joey Stepleton Fabricator J.B. Metal Works Inc. Des Plaines, IL Steven Burval Fabricator Jackson Steel Inc. Hendersonville, NC Doyle Jackson Fabricator

Jensen’s Ornamental Inc. Napa, CA Lance Stafford Fabricator Jerry Cardullo Iron Works Inc. Bay Shore, NY Jerry Cardullo Fabricator Jerry Grice Welding Inc. Woodville, FL Tycee Grice Affiliate Jesco Industries Inc. - Wire & Iron Products Div. Litchfield, MI Bonny DesJardin Fabricator John F. Graney Metal Design Sheffield, MA John Graney Fabricator Johnston Products of Dallas Inc. Cedar Hill, TX Gene Johnston Fabricator Jon Edwards Steel Columbus, OH Jon Edwards Fabricator

Keystone Metals Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Christopher D. Reiling Fabricator Kientzy Machine & Fabrication Inc. Troy, MO Robert Kientzy Fabricator King Architectural Metals Dallas, TX Cathee Speaks-Foster Nationwide Supplier King Architectural Metals - CA Buena Park, CA Michelle MacLeod Nationwide Supplier King Architectural Metals - MD Baltimore, MD Steven Wilkinson Nationwide Supplier Klahm & Sons Inc. Ocala, FL Jack Klahm Fabricator

Kammetal Inc. Brooklyn, NY Sam Kusack Nationwide Supplier

Bob Kline Quality Metals Inc. West Palm Beach, FL Bob Kline Fabricator

Kasper Fabrication & Design Wickliffe, OH Fred Kasper Fabricator

Koppers Fabricators Inc. Forestville, MD Joseph Koppers Fabricator

Keeler Iron Works Memphis, TN Will Keeler Fabricator

Krando Metal Products Broomall, PA Dominic DiAngelus Nationwide Supplier

Kelley Ornamental Iron LLC Peoria, IL Breck Nelson Fabricator

L&L Ornamental Iron Cleves, OH Randy Seiler Fabricator

Lambert’s Ornamental Iron Haltom City, TX Chris M. Gruensfelder Fabricator Lawler Foundry Corp.

Birmingham, AL Stan Lawler Nationwide Supplier Leesburg Concrete Co. Leesburg, FL Shawn Thomas Fabricator Legna Iron Works Inc. Roselle, IL Sylvia Torres Fabricator Lewis Brass & Copper Co. Inc. Middle Village, NY Richard Bacharach Nationwide Supplier Liberty Aluminum Co. Lehigh Acres, FL James E. Lowndes Fabricator Liberty Home Products Denver, CO Kit M. Markgraf Fabricator Lift Master Elmhurst, IL Pat Evans Nationwide Supplier Lightning Forge Murray, UT Paul DiFrancesco Fabricator Liles Welding Service Inc. Stonewall, LA Raymond Liles Fabricator

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NOMMA Members Living Design Studios Lafayette, CO Jonathan Falk Fabricator

Majka Railing Co. Inc. Paterson, NJ Keith Majka Fabricator

LMF Co. Laurel, MS P.E. Mulloy Fabricator

Mark Fence & Railing Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL Mark Hastings Fabricator

Locinox USA Countryside, IL Robert Cooke Nationwide Supplier Lockport Steel Fabricators LLC Lockport, IL Vincent Di Tommaso Fabricator Longfords Longford, Ireland Tony Nerney Fabricator Louis Emmel Ornamental Iron Inc. Coraopolis, PA Ronald E. Koller Fabricator Louis Hoffmann Co. Menomonee Falls, WI United States Bryan Hermus Fabricator Loyal Wrought Iron Co. Ltd. Guangzhou, China James Yan Fabricator LSI Macungie, PA Justin Huddleston Fabricator Mac Metals Inc. Kearny, NJ Mark Sisson Nationwide Supplier Madden Fabrication Portland, OR Dave Gonzalez Fabricator Magnum Companies Inc. Phoenix, AZ Greg Brockman Fabricator Mainer Iron Works Inc. Fort Smith, AR Mark Mainer Fabricator

Marks U.S.A. Amityville, NY William Sporre Nationwide Supplier Marric LLC Orange Park, FL Ed Powell Affiliate Maynard Studios Inc. Lawrenceburg, KY Karine Maynard Fabricator McKey Perforating New Berlin, WI Dan Lesniak Nationwide Supplier McLellan Blacksmithing Loomis, CA John L. McLellan Fabricator McNichols Co. Des Plaines, IL Wade Repavich Nationwide Supplier

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Metalcrafts Inc. Youngstown, OH Richard Evans Fabricator Metalo Studio Monterrey, Mexico Francisco Rene Medina Garza Fabricator Mid State Welding Oxford, MA Daniel Seaver Fabricator Mid-Carolina Steel Co. Columbia, SC Brenda Fortner Local Supplier Middleton & Company Insurance Newton, NJ Richard Gaynor Local Supplier Midwest Fence Corp.

Chicago, IL Timothy Bell Fabricator Midwest Stairs & Iron Inc. Milwaukee, WI Howard Wurgler Fabricator Migala Metal Designs Harvard, IL Michael Migala Fabricator

MCT Sheet Metal Inc. Katy, TX Patrick F. Coussens Fabricator

Mineola Iron Works Co. Mineola, NY Helmut Dill Fabricator

MDO Welding & Fab Wheaton, IL Matthew Olseng Fabricator

Missouri Ornamental Iron Co. Inc. Saint Louis, MO James E. Deatherage Fabricator

Metal Head Inc. Lafayette, LA Randy LeBlanc Fabricator Metal Market Inc. Fort Payne, AL Roland Anderson Fabricator The Metal Works Inc. Lexington, SC Troy Dixon Fabricator Metal Specialties Monterey, CA John Dotto Fabricator

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Mittler Bros.

Machine & Tool Foristell, MO Pam Beckham Nationwide Supplier Modern Railings & Metalcraft Ltd. Aurora, ON Canada K.T. Lilley Fabricator Mofab Inc. Anderson, IN Max W. Hains Fabricator

Moore & Morford Inc. Greensburg, PA James P. Morford Fabricator Mott Iron Works North Orange, MA Ronald Mott Fabricator MTI Industries Metal Studios North Falmouth, MA Marc LaRochelle Fabricator Mueller Ornamental Iron Works Inc. Elk Grove Village, IL Rob Mueller Fabricator

New Hampshire Steel Fabricators Inc. Goffstown, NH Mark Ginnard Fabricator Nick’s Metal Fab. & Sons Inc. Brookfield, IL Nick Tepavchevich Jr. Fabricator Northeast Iron Works Inc. Washington, DC Silvio Pronio Fabricator Nueva Castilla Co. San Francisco, CA F. Javier Alvarez Fabricator

O’Malley Welding & Fabricating Inc. Yorkville, IL Mark R. O’Malley Fabricator Ornamental Gate & Fence Mead, WA Rick Nelson Fabricator Ornamental Metal Institute of NY New York, NY Gary Higbee Affiliate Oscar’s Custom Iron Works San Antonio, TX Oscar Hernandez Jr. Fabricator Outland Steel Inc. Caldwell, ID Sonya Roman Fabricator

Multi Sales Inc. La Palma, CA Brent Reid Nationwide Supplier

O.K. Foundry Co. Inc. Richmond, VA James O’Neil Nationwide Supplier

Myers & Co. Architectural Metals Basalt, CO Gib Plimpton Fabricator

O’Brien Architectural Metals Inc. Chicago, IL John O’Brien Fabricator

Pace Metal Fab Pinnacle, NC Tom Pace Fabricator

N.U.M.A.R. Carmel, NY David Ceckanowicz Jr. Fabricator

Ocean Machinery Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL Hunter Fry Local Supplier

Pacific Stair Corp.

Salem, OR Ed Gunning Nationwide Supplier

National Ornamental Iron Inc. Standish, MI Thomas F. Rowell Fabricator

Offenhauser Co. Houston, TX Robert Dillard Fabricator

Paco Corp.

Bridgeview, IL Greg Paice Fabricator

Ohio Gratings Inc. Canton, OH Carl Griffin Nationwide Supplier

Padilla Designs LLC Kihei, HI Mary Jo Padilla Fabricator

National Ornamental Metal Museum Memphis, TN Carissa Hussong Honorary Nationwide Industries Tampa, FL Stuart Itzkowitz Nationwide Supplier NC Tool Co. Pleasant Garden, NC Denise Jones Nationwide Supplier Neiweem Industries Inc. Oakwood Hills, IL Kurt M. Neiweem Fabricator

OIK Industries Inc. Kalamazoo, MI Tim Scheffers Fabricator Old Country Ornamental Iron Supply Co. Thunder Bay, ON Canada Jack H. Eberhardt Fabricator Old Dutchman’s Wrought Iron Getzville, NY Keith Deck Fabricator Olde Iron Shoppe Mosinee, WI Don Prohaska Fabricator

Owens Welding Inc. Cleveland, GA Robert A. Owens Fabricator

Palmer Marble & Tile Inc. West Palm Beach, FL David L. Palmer Fabricator Paramount Iron & Handrail Inc. Carson City, NV James M. Edmonds Fabricator Paramount Steel Inc. Houston, TX Steve Lee Fabricator Patina Metals Inc. Houston, TX Jeff Emmott Fabricator 65

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NOMMA Members Peck & Co. Inc. Houston, TX Bill Peck Fabricator Pelet Welding Inc. Coatesville, PA Douglas Pelet Fabricator Perpetua Iron St. Louis, MO Janet Sanders Fabricator Phoenix Fence Co. Phoenix, AZ Doug Mastin Fabricator Picasso Gate Inc. Cheyenne, WY Brent Nichols Fabricator Piedmont Metalworks Durham, NC Ron Hamilton Fabricator Pinpoint Solutions Jupiter, FL Terry Barrett Fabricator Pool Custom Iron Work Inc. Conroe, TX Dusty Adams Fabricator Post Road Iron Works Inc. Greenwich, CT John Gasparrini Fabricator Powder-X Coating Systems LaVergne, TN Joey Golliver Nationwide Supplier Precision Glass Bending Corp.

Greenwood, AR Russell Alder Nationwide Supplier ProCounsel Dallas, TX Buzz Taylor Nationwide Supplier Q-Railing USA Co. Tustin, CA Kati Chappell Nationwide Supplier Quality Arch. & Fab. Inc. Franklin, OH Demme Davis Fabricator 66

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Quality Welding LLC Bristol, CT Samuel A. Walters Fabricator

Ring of Fire Forge Canton, GA Linda Holmes-Rubin Fabricator

Savannah River Forge Augusta, GA Mike Ivey Fabricator

R & F Metals Inc. Clinton, MD Roger Flynn Fabricator

Robert James Custom Metal Fab LLC Jensen Beach, FL Jim Reitz Fabricator

SC Metalworks LLC Houston, TX Shawn Cogburn Fabricator

R & H Co. Inc. Metal Fabricators Easton, PA Bill Kowalchuk Fabricator Raber Industries Inc. Alva, FL Tom Raber Jr. Fabricator Ransburg Toledo, OH Linda Hester Nationwide Supplier Raulli & Sons Inc. Syracuse, NY Rich Raulli Fabricator Raysteel Inc. Albuquerque, NM Kenneth Ray Fabricator Red Pepper Forge Inc. North East, MD James V. Bomba Fabricator Red River Fabricating Inc. West Fargo, ND Charles Gilleland Fabricator Regency Railings Inc. Dallas, TX Tom Weaver Nationwide Supplier Rens Welding & Fabricating Inc. Taunton, MA United States Rens Hayes Fabricator Republic Iron Works Inc. Chicopee, MA United States Gary Visconti Fabricator Richard R. Pucci & Associates Inc. Ivyland, PA United States Richard Pucci Fabricator

Robinson Iron Corp.

Alexander City, AL Luke Robinson Nationwide Supplier Robinson Laser LLC East Chicago, IN Henry Goff Nationwide Supplier Rockite, Div. of Hartline Products Co. Inc. Cleveland, OH Chris Hart Nationwide Supplier

Scranton Craftsmen Inc. Throop, PA United States Jay Frye Fabricator Sculpt Nouveau Escondido, CA Ron Young Nationwide Supplier SECO South Largo, FL Rodney Owen Nationwide Supplier Sender Ornamental Iron Works Johnstown, PA Wilfried Sender Fabricator

Rod Iron Rod Inc. Odessa, TX Rod Lambirth Fabricator

Sentry Steel Inc. Martin Thieneman Fabricator

Rogers Mfg. Inc. Mineral Wells, TX Leah Gillespie Nationwide Supplier

Sergey Sakirkin Blacksmith Salt Lake City, UT Sergey Sakirkin Fabricator

Rosebud Metalworks St. Louis, MO Jessie Cargas Fabricator

Sharpe Products New Berlin, WI Paul Krickeberg Nationwide Supplier

Ryan Iron Works Inc. Raynham, MA Paul Berube Fabricator

Shawnee Steel & Welding Inc. Merriam, KS Craig Pardue Fabricator

S & S Mfg. Edison, NJ Steve Silverman Fabricator

Shrock Fabrication Bird In Hand, PA Stanley Shrock Fabricator

Salco Inc. Prairieville, LA Gordon Salbador Fabricator

Shut It Gate Hardware Tucson, AZ Skip Bengtson Local Supplier

San Gabriel Ornamental Leander, TX Charles V. Cate Fabricator Sanger Iron Works Inc. Sanger, CA Joe Kacerek Fabricator

Sigma Metals Inc. Colorado Springs, CO Gary Gaulke Fabricator Sippel Co. Inc. Sewickley, PA David J. Sippel Fabricator

Skyline Steel Corp.

Brooklyn, NY Arthur Rubinstein Fabricator Smith Architectural Metals LLC Greensboro, NC Stephen H. Smith Fabricator Snyder Engineering Inc. Columbia, MO Mark Snyder Fabricator Sorge Industries Inc. Shelton, CT Thomas L. Sorge Fabricator South Camden Iron Works Inc. Mickleton, NJ Mitch Kowal Nationwide Supplier Southeastern Stair & Rail Augusta, GA Gary L. Cowart Fabricator Southern Staircase Alpharetta, GA Michael Hanagriff Fabricator Southern Star Steel Services LLC Lorena, TX Bobby Meador Fabricator Southern Style Iron Works Byron, GA Michael Bilderback Fabricator

Specialty Iron Works Port Allen, LA Jay Leblanc Fabricator Spirit Ironworks Bayport, NY Rachel Miller Fabricator SRS Inc. Metuchen, NJ Dan Bellware Fabricator St. Louis Ironworks St. Peters, MO Tony Hargiss Fabricator Stainless Fabrications Brockton, MA Jim Madden Fabricator StairCrafters Inc. Easley, SC Leslie J. Jayne Fabricator Stairways Inc. Houston, TX John Anderson Nationwide Supplier Stanco Mfg. Inc. Salem, OR Steve Stanley Fabricator Star Wire Mesh Fabricators Inc. New York, NY Joe Pavur Fabricator Steel Geisha Designs Inc. Sonoma, CA Steve Chiurco Fabricator

Southwest Architectural Metals Henderson, NV Tom Morgan Fabricator Southwest Metalsmiths Inc. Phoenix, AZ Bradford Wines Fabricator Specialty Engineering Waterford, CA Kevin Bauche Fabricator

Steel Magnolia Inc. Blaine, WA Ken Miller Fabricator Steel Welding Freedom, PA John Steel Fabricator Steely Don’s Inc. Jupiter, FL Don Shedlock Fabricator Stodtmeister Iron Sparks, NV Rod Stodtmeister Fabricator

Specialty Iron Works Great Falls, MT Steve Benjamin Fabricator

Strampe Metalcraft Eden Prairie, MN Scott Strampe Fabricator

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Tampa Steel & Supply Inc. Tampa, FL Bruce Goldman Local Supplier TAS Enterprise Metter, GA Timothy A. Smith Fabricator Ted Turner Company Inc. Beltsville, MD Ted Turner Fabricator Tesko Enterprises Norridge, IL Bob Skonieczny Fabricator Thrifty Iron Works Hyattsville, MD Richard Thrift Fabricator

Sunbelt Metals & Mfg. Inc. Apopka, FL Bill Harbin Fabricator

Titan Industries Inc. Deer Creek, IL Ryan McQueary Fabricator

Sunset Metalworks Burlington, IA Kirk J. Beckman Fabricator

Transpacific Industrial Supply Inc. Rancho Cucamonga, CA Hong Wei Li Nationwide Supplier

Superior Fence & Orn. Iron Cottage Hills, IL Greg Tennikait Fabricator Superior Iron Works Inc. Sterling, VA Gary W. Essex Fabricator Superior Steel Service LLC Batavia, OH Jeffrey Brewsaugh Fabricator Sure Iron Works Brooklyn, NY Steve Horn Fabricator T. Johnson Design Hopewell, NJ Terrence Johnson Fabricator Tacoma Iron Work Tacoma, WA John Leskajan Fabricator Tallahassee Welding & Machine Shop Inc. Tallahassee, FL Kenny Small Fabricator

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Turner Mfg. Co. Fresno, CA Jose L. Turner Fabricator Unique Iron Design Ltd. Burnley, Lancashire England Richard Twiddy Fabricator

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Vasquez Custom Metals Inc. Tampa, FL Pedro Vasquez Fabricator

United Steel Inc. East Hartford, CT Keith Corneau Fabricator

Viva Railings LLC Carrollton, TX Huzefa Tinwala Fabricator

Universal Steel Inc. Lithonia, GA William B. Bourne III Fabricator Universal Supplies Associates Brooklyn, NY Yaron Pinson Local Supplier Unlimited Welding Inc. Winter Springs, FL Brian Smith Fabricator

Trinity Iron Images Lubbock, TX Jason Lee Fabricator

Upright Iron Works Inc. Griffith, IN Elizabeth Mate-Bias Fabricator

Trinity Stairs Inc. Frisco, TX Richard Bush Fabricator

Upright Steel LLC Cleveland, OH Gerald Quinn Fabricator

Tri-State Shearing & Bending Brooklyn, NY Alan Blaier Nationwide Supplier

V & R Designs Perth Amboy, NJ Victor Carollo Fabricator

Tri-Steel Fabricators Trenton, NJ James Werosta Fabricator

Van Linda Iron Works Inc. Lake Worth, FL Bruce Van Linda Fabricator

Van Dam Iron Works Inc. Grand Rapids, MI James Stickland Fabricator

Wasko Iron Works Whitehall, PA Bernie Wasko Fabricator

White’s Steel Inc. Indio, CA John Bonafede Fabricator

Waukegan Steel LLC Waukegan, IL United States Wayne Griesbaum Fabricator

Why Not Iron Inc. Chicago, IL Patricia Kelly Fabricator

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Medford, NY Anthony Pizzichemi Fabricator

Wiemann Metalcraft Tulsa, OK Douglas Bracken Fabricator

Welding Works Inc. Madison, CT Walter P. Camp Fabricator

Wm. Horn Structural Steel Co. Geneva, IL Betty J. Horn Fabricator

Vulcan Fabricated Metals dba Daniel Iron Birmingham, AL Michael McDowell Fabricator

Weldon Welding & Inspection Services Inc. Sterrett, AL Derek Weldon Fabricator

Wonderland Products Inc. Jacksonville, FL Robert L. Ponsler Jr. Fabricator

West End Iron Works Inc. Albany, NY Steve Frey Fabricator

World Fence News Austin, TX Rodger Duke Fabricator

The Wagner Companies Butler, WI Keri Gregg Nationwide Supplier

West Memphis Fence & Construction Inc. West Memphis, AR Steven Bius Local Supplier

Wally’s Iron Works Inc. Mount Airy, MD Dennis W. Wallace Fabricator

West Tennessee Ornamental Door Memphis, TN James Hoffa Nationwide Supplier

Vogel Tool & Die LLC Addison, IL Larry Siegal Nationwide Supplier

Warren’s Welding Thomas, OK Warren Crain Fabricator Warrenton Steel LLC Warrenton, MO Gary Carter Fabricator

Wheeler Ornamental Metals Dothan, AL Henry Allen Wheeler Fabricator

Wrought Iron Art Ltd. Oakville, ON Canada Oleg Shyshkin Fabricator York Metal Fabricators Inc. Oklahoma City, OK David York Fabricator Zion Metal Works Clackamas, OR Larry Jenks Fabricator

Tropical Welding & Fabricating Co. Orlando, FL Bud Crowther Fabricator

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Trylon Lyndhurst, NJ Ralph Marchione Fabricator

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will be announced on Aug 1, 2014, at the Friday night preview dinner of CMA’s annual Lewton-Brain Foldforming Intensive.

The Center for Metal Arts has partnered with Charles Lewton-Brain to release a retrospective art book Foldforming at 30 this summer to celebrate the winners of the inaugural years, which includes some metalsmith explorations in working large.

TO ENTER http://www.centerformetalarts.com/foldform-competition.html VIDEOS of past winners and the Annual CLB Workshop are a click away.

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What’s Hot? n Event Aug 13–16, 2014 The ABANA 2014 Conference Location Delaware State Fairgrounds, Harrington, DE Register now Avoid the $50 late fee by registering by June 30, 2014 Demonstrators Show management is negotiating with smiths from South America, UK, Europe, and the U.S., including the Colonial Williamsburg Smiths and the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths and is looking for demonstrators covering a range of styles using tools from hand hammers to forging presses and power hammers; an iron smelt; and copper and silversmiths.

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Family Activities will include arts and crafts projects.

Iron In The Hat Fundraiser Three big-ticket items are secured: a Clay Spencer Tire Hammer made and donated by Clay; a Nimba Titan 120-pound anvil donated

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Raloff named president of Electron Beam Technologies Electron Beam Technologies Inc., a worldwide OEM supplier of coaxial/ composite welding cables and Fast ’N Easy conduit systems for automation, has promoted Valgene E. Raloff to president and Bob Tokoly to chief financial officer/chief operations officer upon the retirement of Paul Wlos.

With the company for 18 years, Raloff has held engineering, sales, and marketing positions. Before joining Electron Beam, Raloff was an engineering manager at Bernard Welding Equipment Co. Raloff will spearhead new sales and administrative initiatives.

Tokoly has been with Electron Beam for six years as CFO/human resources manager. Previously, he was with American Maize Products/Cerestar USA as vice president, finance/IT, for 24 years.

Wagner makes several personnel moves Cousineau gets Canada territory

Ryan Cousineau has been named to the newly created position of Canadian account executive for The Wagner Companies. Based in Toronto, Cousineau will oversee a sales area that includes central Canada. This position has been years in the making with export initiatives now supporting a full-time liaison.

Cousineau will focus on growing the territory, creating sales channels with architects, general contractors, and fabricators. He has a bachelor’s degree in commerce management from the University of Ottawa.

Wagner hires modeling engineers

Stephen Frey and Yer Vang are new modeling engineers in the architectural railings system division of The Wag-

ner Companies. Each has 10+ years of drawing, design, and CAD experience.

Frey’s educational background focused on engineering and technology. He joins Wagner after working at Siemens, Rockwell, and TJ Hale. He is a mechanical designer and brings manufacturing ability into design.

Vang has an associate degree in industrial model building from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and is enrolled in the mechanical engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has design software experience from Georgia Pacific, Palmer Johnson, and Key Technical Solutions of Milwaukee.

Frey and Vang will work primarily with architects, customers, and manufacturing to create designs that satisfy end users’ custom specifications of handrail systems from a functional and aesthetic perspective. They will also serve in electronic database administration, incorporating new technologies into the design process.

Durow joins production control

Dean Durow is a new production control manager for The Wagner Companies. He has more than 25 years in production planning, including 15 years at the West Bend Co. and most recently with Milk Specialties of Adell, WI. Durow will serve as the master planner for Wagner’s production lines, including second-shift operations.

He will have two directly reporting staff members assisting him. Durow will work with purchasing, sales, and departmental supervisors to coordinate on-time delivery to customers.

Durow is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and has a Planning Industry certificate.

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The gate-closing system is geared toward use in schools, airports, oil fields, and other applications where effective perimeter security and access control is necessary. With speed adjustments for both closing and latching speed, the TB950

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way, the company says, to monitor and control a gate from up to 492 feet away.

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Lynden Garden renovation is LEED inspired Editor’s note: In the January-February 2014 issue of O&MM Fabricator, Bighorn Forge’s Dan Nauman wrote about his company’s work helping to renovate the Lyndon Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, WI. Here’s the rest of the story.

The Lynden Sculpture Garden was the estate of the late Harry

Lynde Bradley and Margaret (Peg) Blakney Bradley.

Inventor and industrialist Harry Bradley founded the Allen-Bradley Company with his brother Lynde in 1904, making it one of the state’s successful manufacturing concerns.

Harry married Peg in April 1926, which is commemorated on the wooden bench by the fireplace, as is the year they purchased the property and named it “Lynden.”

An architect with 40 acres

The collection includes sculptures by Alexander Archipenko, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Clement Meadmore, Marta Pan, Tony Smith, and Mark di Suvero.

After the purchase of the works, Peg sat on her porch to direct the location of wood models constructed by the staff as she chose sites for the sculptures. Some of the artists traveled to Lynden to assist with the siting and to assemble their work.

The original farmhouse, built in the 1860s, was enlarged to accommodate Harry, Peg, and their daughter Jane.

Local architect Fitzhugh Scott provided drawings for the alterations to the barn, the bathhouse, and a diving pier and slide.

Decades later, architect David Kahler designed an addition at the west end of the house for an indoor swimming pool, providing more space for the growing collection.

The Bradleys took the nearly 40 acres of farmland, and with the help of Public gets inside Chicago landscape architects LangIn 2009, Lynden opened to the pub­ ford & Moreau, created an English lic after an extensive renova­tion of the country park with gently rolling hills, Detail of entrance gate that won house and some of the grounds. trees, and flower beds. The lake and the NOMMA’s Top Job Bronze award.

The house has been transformed by rustic bridge spanning the water were Uihlein-Wilson Architects using susBighorn Forge’s work on this gate tainable building practices. The newly designed to match Harry Bradley’s memories of the grounds in Kansas created public spaces include a conferand the perimeter fencing was City where he swam as a boy. ence room, a large classroom/studio, a part of the renovation project at gallery, and a glassed-in function space In April 1934, the Bradleys hired Carl Urban, a fourth generation garoverlooking the large patio. the Lynden Sculpture Garden. dener, to supervise the crew and the The project was designed to achieve planting of the garden beds and trees.

LEED certification. A large proportion of the existing strucTrained in Germany and the U.S., Urban observed that ture was re-used or maintained, and more than 75% of the when he first saw the acreage behind the house it consisted construction and demolition waste was recycled, re-used, or mainly of corn fields with horses, sheep, goats and 13 oak otherwise diverted from landfills. trees. Over time, nearly 4,000 trees were planted on the Among the many sustainable features is a state-of-the-art property — several varieties of elms; Norwegian, Austrian, geothermal heating system. Eco-sensitive landscaping designed and Scotch pines; Norway maples; a Danish plum tree; seven by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates includes pervious varieties of birch trees; and Kentucky coffee trees. asphalt pavement that promotes drainage, the preservation of Urban remained on the staff and resided in the apartment mature trees, the re-introduction of native species, and sustainin the barn until his death in 1991. able drainage and care strategies, including pervious asphalt pavement and a rain garden in the new parking area.

The Lynden Sculpture Garden is now home to exhibitions, Sculptures cement reputation temporary installations, performances, an artist residency In 1962, Peg Bradley — already an experienced art colprogram, and a range of education programs. The renovated lector — began collecting the contemporary monumental residence is available for conferences and event rentals. sculptures that secured Lynden’s international reputation.

— Special thanks to JoAnn Youngman for the history.

She collected actively until her death in 1978.

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