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Design & Fabrication

Industrial Fabrication and Welding

Support custom industrial parts and assemblies with metal fabrication services for steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, including cutting, forming, welding, and assembly.

Why Direct

Built for the Jobs That Aren’t Standard

Industrial fabrication projects often involve unique dimensions, materials, interfaces, or installation needs that don’t fit an off-the-shelf solution. Direct works from drawings, specifications, and project requirements to coordinate each part or assembly around how it needs to fit, function, and move into the next stage of the build.

Welder fabricating a custom metal component in an industrial shop

Our Capabilities

From Raw Material to Finished Assembly

Direct provides custom fabrication, metal fabrication, and welding services for industrial parts, equipment, structures, and assemblies that require accurate cutting, forming, fit-up, welding, and dependable build quality.

Precision Cutting and Material Preparation

Steel, stainless steel, and aluminum are cut and prepared using waterjet cutting, CNC plasma cutting, and other fabrication processes selected around material type, geometry, dimensions, tolerances, edge quality, part complexity, and downstream assembly requirements.

Forming and Sheet Metal Fabrication

Press-brake forming and bending shape sheet and plate into brackets, guards, panels, supports, enclosures, and other custom components built around project drawings, dimensions, fit requirements, material thicknesses, forming needs, and final assembly requirements.

Industrial Welding and Fabrication Services

MIG, TIG, stick, and robotic welding support steel, stainless steel, and aluminum fabrication for custom parts, weldments, structural assemblies, equipment, and production work where fit-up, strength, dimensional accuracy, consistency, and final weld quality matter.

Finishing and Final Fabricated Assembly

Fabricated components can move through fit-up, welding, grinding, finishing, inspection, and light assembly so individual parts become completed, production-ready assemblies while keeping more of the overall fabrication process coordinated through one shop.

FABRICATION SUPPORT

Keep More of the Build Together

Splitting cutting, forming, welding, and assembly across several vendors creates more handoffs and more chances for dimensions or revisions to get lost. Keeping more of the fabrication process together helps projects move from material to finished assembly with fewer disconnects.

Reduce Vendor Handoffs

Coordinate cutting, forming, welding, finishing, and assembly through one fabrication team instead of managing several separate shops.

Handle Custom Requirements

Build around unusual dimensions, materials, interfaces, and project constraints when standard components won’t fit the application.

Adapt to the Production Need

Support one-off projects, prototypes, low-volume runs, and changing demand without forcing every job into high-volume manufacturing.

Technician machining a metal component in an industrial fabrication shop

Metal Fabrication and Welding

Steel Fabrication
Stainless Steel Fabrication
Aluminum Fabrication
Waterjet Cutting
CNC Plasma Cutting
Press-Brake Forming
MIG, TIG, and Stick Welding

Connect With Direct

Have a Fabrication Project in Mind?

Send us your drawings, dimensions, material requirements, or project scope, and we can help determine the right fabrication, welding, and assembly approach.

Contact Our Team

(866) 583-3377

Direct Design & Fabrication

1305 Lew Ross Road, Council Bluffs, IA 51501

Email Our Team

info@directcompanies.com

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Turn the Drawing Into a Finished Build

Direct is an industrial metal fabricator providing custom welding and metal fabrication for parts, structures, and assemblies built to project drawings, materials, and requirements.

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