Services · Every step, one roof

End to end. Cut, form, weld, finish, assemble, ship.

Most contract manufacturers send half the job out the back door, then wait on somebody else's queue. We don't. Every step happens inside our 75,000 sq ft Birmingham facilities — engineered, cut, fabricated, coated, assembled and shipped by the same team, which is how an order turns around in about a week. Take the whole chain or just the step you're short on.

SERVICE · S-01

Laser Cutting

Two CNC lasers, sheet and plate, cutting five days a week.

Two CNC laser cutting machines run the front of our shop. Send a flat pattern and we cut it — mild steel, stainless, aluminum — from a single prototype blank to a standing weekly release. Running two machines means a down spindle doesn't stop your job, and a rush part doesn't wait behind a production run.

Capabilities

Mild steel to 1.25" · aluminum and stainless steel to 1"
Two machines — redundancy on breakdowns, shorter queues on rush work
DXF, DWG, STEP and IGES accepted; PDF traced on request
Common-line nesting to hold down material cost
Deburr and edge-break as a secondary operation
Cut-only orders welcome — you don't have to buy the whole build

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SERVICE · S-02

Steel Fabrication

Saw, brake, punch and weld — under one Birmingham roof.

Sheet metal and tubular fabrication for low- through high-volume production runs. Our 75,000 sq ft Birmingham facilities are staffed by certified welders and tooled with press brake, automatic saws and robotic welding cells.

Capabilities

Automatic saw cutting for tube, bar and structural stock
CNC press brake forming, 12 ft beds
Auto-tool changers
MIG / TIG / spot welding by certified welders
Robotic weld cells for repeat geometry
Hardware insertion, tapping and secondary machining

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SERVICE · S-03

Powder Coating

Industrial-grade durable finish, color-matched to your brand.

Multi-stage pretreatment, electrostatic application and conveyorized cure ovens. We powder coat parts up to 8 ft × 4 ft × 4 ft, in any color you can name from a RAL or Pantone deck. Standard TGIC polyester for outdoor durability; specialty epoxies and primers on request.

Capabilities

Five-stage iron phosphate pretreatment line
Conveyorized booth and gas-fired cure oven
Max part envelope: 96" × 48" × 48"
Color-match to RAL, Pantone, or sample chip
Specialty: anti-graffiti, hammertone, textured
Coat-only work accepted — bring us your parts

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SERVICE · S-04

Assembly

Kitted, built and boxed — so you order a product, not a pile of parts.

Most shops hand you a box of components and let you figure out the rest. We finish the job. Hardware goes in, sub-assemblies get built, units are labelled and boxed to your pack spec — and if you want, they leave here on a truck to your customer with your name on the carton, not ours.

Capabilities

Mechanical assembly and sub-assembly builds
Hardware insertion, fastening and torque-spec work
Kitting with bagged hardware and printed instructions
Serialization, labelling and barcode application
Retail-ready and freight-ready packaging
Drop-ship direct to your customer under your branding

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SERVICE · S-05

Contract Manufacturing & OEM

OEM-grade builds — yours, ours, or somewhere between.

Edwards is your contract OEM (original equipment manufacturer). We manufacture to your print, your customer's print, or partner with you on a co-developed design — then own that part on your bill of materials for as long as you build it. This is the standing-program side of the shop: release schedules, held inventory, drop-ship. For one-off and overflow work, see the job shop.

Capabilities

Reverse engineering from samples or legacy drawings
Inventory and JIT (just-in-time) release programs
Drop-ship to your customer with your branding
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) on agreed SKUs
Long-term price agreements with steel hedging

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SERVICE · S-06

Job Shop

Send us the part your shop can't run. We'll estimate it.

Half this floor runs work for other people's shops. Manufacturers and fabricators send us the jobs they can't take — the part that needs a laser they don't own, the finish they can't apply, the week they don't have. We estimate from your print, hold your tolerances, and send it back under your name. No program commitment, no minimum, no questions about who your customer is.

Capabilities

Estimates from your print — DXF, STEP, IGES or PDF
Overflow laser, saw, brake and punch capacity
Powder coating for shops without a finishing line
One-off parts and short runs — no minimum order
White-label work shipped under your name
NDA and non-compete terms honored

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SERVICE · S-07

Design & Engineering

From sketch to spec sheet — we draw your machine before we build it.

Bring us a problem and we'll bring back a drawing. Our in-house design and engineering team works in SolidWorks and AutoCAD, supports DXF / STEP / IGES exchange, and handles reverse engineering when the only spec is the part on your floor.

Capabilities

SolidWorks and AutoCAD modeling
Reverse engineering with calipers, CMM and 3D scan
FEA stress analysis on critical members
Drafting to ASME Y14.5 GD&T standards
Prototype review with your engineering team

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Engineering review

Send us a print. We'll review it for free and send DFM feedback.

Drop a DXF, STEP, IGES or PDF on the contact form. Our engineering team will get back to you with manufacturability notes and a quote — almost always within two business days.

Request a quote Call (800) 441-5080