Our equipment and experience enable us to fabricate and perforate metal to exacting tight tolerances standards. We have a talented and experienced team of engineers, technicians, and welders who can help with any forming, notching, bending, punching, or fabrication request and the machines and tools to get the job done right. We offer various fabricating capabilities, including punching, forming, perforating, welding, laser cutting, light stamping, custom tooling, and shearing. Our facilities and equipment allow us to do small and large production runs. We will assist in the design and development of prototypes for larger projects. We offer first article inspection to ensure your component's quality and specifications before we do a final production run.
We provide an ideal and accurate solution for your steel fabrication needs and other materials using the latest equipment. Take a look at our custom metalwork services.
CNC Metal Punching
Accurate Metal Fabricating has been punching shapes into metal for seven decades. We have dozens of perforating presses, multiple CNC turret punch presses, and hundreds of tools to cover any metal punching requirement. We punch material as thick as 1/8" and as thin as 28 gauge. We process material up to 5' wide and sheets as long as 10 feet. We can even punch coils hundreds of feet long on one of our perforating presses.
Our newest turret press is a 33-ton, 58-station, CNC Amada EMZ 3610 with the largest bed commercially available at 60 "x100". The large bed enables our customers not to be limited by size in their design. Complementing our large bed are six other Amada turret presses, including a CNC Amada V358K with a 50 "x80" bed and our 22-ton, 31-station CNC Amada V255 with a 50 "x50" bed. Accurate has the equipment and expertise to accommodate your most complex parts.
With multiple machines, hundreds of tools, and nearly 75 years of experience, Accurate can handle essentially any hole-punching request. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
CNC Metal Forming and Bending
Accurate Metal Fabricating's precision sheet metal capabilities shine for custom metal bending and forming. With nearly 75 years of experience and multiple Amada and Accurpress press brakes to accommodate your product requirements, we provide our customers with high-quality, precision forming of material up to 10 feet wide. Our extensive library of tools accommodates most forming requirements. We also develop custom tooling to meet your design needs.
Our newest press brake is a 143-ton, 8-axis, CNC Amada HDS 1303NT, which enables us to accommodate customers with complex parts up to 10 feet wide. Complementing our Amada 1303NT is our 88-ton, 8-axis, CNC Amada HDS 8025, which can bend material up to 8.5 feet wide. Our multiple 100-ton and 60-ton CNC Accurpress press brakes provide solutions for bending material lengths up to 6 feet. Accurate has the equipment and expertise to accommodate your most complex parts.
With multiple machines, hundreds of tools, and seven decades of experience, Accurate is your complete source in Chicago for CNC metal forming and bending. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
Metal Perforating
In addition to Accurate Metal Fabricating's broad capabilities, the Accurate family of metalworking companies also includes Accurate Perforating. For more than 80 years, Accurate Perforating has provided a wide range of perforated materials and components for use in retail, agricultural, architectural, audio, electronic, HVAC, and many other applications.
With state-of-the-art machinery and engineering expertise, Accurate Perforating perforates holes ranging from .045" to 4" in diameter in various metals and other materials and delivers them in sheets, coils, or fabricated components. Accurate Perforating also maintains an immense tooling library with more than 2,000 ready-to-run patterns, from essential holes and slots to hexagons and cloverleaf. If you can't find the pattern you're looking for on our website, a custom metal punch can often be developed to meet your needs.
Like Accurate Metal Fabricating, the team at Accurate Perforating is ready to collaborate on your project. They provide the same superior level of service and exacting attention to detail to help turn your ideas into reality.
With multiple machines, hundreds of tools, and seven decades of experience, Accurate can handle essentially any perforating request. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
Laser Cutting System
In addition to CNC punching, forming, bending, welding, and perforating, Accurate Perforating & Metal Fabricating can also provide precision CNC laser cutting. Our new Amada 3-Axis, a self-loading fiber laser cutting system, can run 24/7 without personnel, providing fast, efficient production.
Laser-cutting technology enables the design engineer to create the most complicated shapes and use traditionally difficult materials to cut with established stamping methods. Low to medium (Medium to high volume) volume is ideal for laser cutting, and tooling costs are virtually non-existent. There is also a quicker turnaround from your design to production-level parts.
Accurate's laser cutter is the powerful and precise Amada FLCAJ 3015 3-Axis Fiber Laser Cutting System with the optional automated loader/unloader, allowing 24/7 production. Our capabilities and expertise provide our customers with solutions for various materials like carbon steel, aluminum, and stainless steel. This machine's capacities enable us to handle sheets 5 feet wide, 10 feet long, and up to 5/8" thick.
With multiple state-of-the-art machines, hundreds of tools, and seven decades of experience, Accurate can handle any forming, bending, welding, perforating, or cutting request. Furthermore, our new laser cutting machinery is automated so it can run 24/7 without personnel, providing fast turnarounds at a great price. Please reach out to us today to discuss your needs.
Metal Welding
Accurate Metal Fabricating's precision welding capabilities rise to the top with our latest addition of a Motoman robotic welder to our welding cell. We provide our customers with cleaner, more consistent welds while offering more precision and flexibility in hard-to-reach areas. Accurate has the capabilities and the experience to weld metal as thin as 28 gauge up to 1" along with thin gauge aluminum. Additionally, we are well-versed in how to weld various kinds of metals like aluminum and stainless steel.
We offer many different welding processes, including MIG, TIG, spot welding, and our Motoman HP20D-6 DX100 robotic welder with a Fronius cold metal transfer MIG welding unit. Our additional capabilities enable us to partner with our customers to meet challenging quality standards through precise heat control and exact penetration, join corner edges of thin materials, and achieve repeatable results time after time. With multiple machines, hundreds of tools, and seven decades of experience, Accurate can handle essentially any welding request. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
Light Stamping
Precision is an essential capability for quality metal fabrication. Accurate Metal Fabricating brings precision to every area of our metal fabrication in the Chicago suburbs, including light stamping. Light gauge stamping and decorative stamping can elevate your product to a new level of showmanship.
Stamping (or pressing) involves many metal-forming processes: punching, embossing, bending, flanging, and coining. We can produce light gauge precision stamping on complex metal components of a variety of sizes, gauges, and materials, including:
- Parts smaller than a nickel and thinner than a dime.
- Light gauge sheet metal up to 11 gauge.
- Work with carbon steel, stainless steel, cold roll steel, aluminum, brass, and copper.
Essential Equipment
AMF's modern high-speed equipment features robotic systems with automatic transfers. This is precise and cost-efficient. We can handle short to medium-run stamping requirements with our press brakes, punch presses, and CNC turret presses. AMF has a wide range of press tonnage available, press beds up to 60 in. x 100 in., and an immense tooling library maintained by Accurate Perforating.
We have the essential equipment to meet your light stamping needs.
Years Of Experience
For your light stamping requirements, Accurate Metal Fabricating offers:
- The latest technology
- Over 80 years of experience
- A skilled team of engineers
Our clients are engineers, designers, OEMs, and distributors; we work with them on prototype development to ensure that each unique design is fully functional.
We're proud of our ability to handle any high-volume fabrication request you may have.
Metal Shearing & Cutting
Accurate has the complete solution for your sheet metal fabricating requirements. We have numerous shears with various capabilities to fit your product requirements. Our shears can cut metal up to 1" thick and 10' wide. We have specialized conveyor shears that can cut over 100 pieces per minute with tight tolerances.
With multiple machines, hundreds of tools, and seven decades of experience, Accurate can handle essentially any shearing request.
Tubular Fabrication
Tube Types
No matter what type of metal tube you require, we can provide the tubular fabrication for your components. This includes:
- Bent tubing
- Tubular frames
- Square and rectangular tubing
- Perforated metal tubes
- Round Tubing tubing
- Straight cut tubing
- Mitered cut tubing
- ASTM A513 Tubing
Many fabricated metal assemblies, and especially POP displays, require mechanical tubing. AMF can assist you with any tubular components. We offer tubular fabrication in various metal materials: aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, and pre-coated metals.
Tube Talent
Accurate Metal Fabricating has the talent and equipment to handle complex tubing components. Our laser cutter is a precise, powerful 3500 W Mitsubishi CNC Laser System. AMF's multiple Amada and Accurpress press brakes provide our customers with high-quality, precision forming for tubing. Our CNC Accurpress press breaks offer solutions to bend materials up to 6 feet long.
With this equipment and our expertise, we can:
- Laser-cut details on square or rectangular tubes
- Provide you with straight or mitered-cut tubular assemblies
- Perforate tubes
- Incorporate threaded hardware into tubing components
- Incorporate tubing into welded assemblies
PEM® Insertion
Accurate Metal Fabricating can integrate specialized PEM® brand fasteners into your design projects. PEM® Insertion yields strong, permanent, threaded fasteners and mounting points for PC boards, electronic enclosures, brackets, shield covers, and other accessories. A PEM® nut is an internal fastener that, as an assembly alternative, provides solid and load-bearing threads to thin sheet metal and non-malleable materials.
PEM® Insertion Advantages
- Easy to integrate
- Inexpensive
- Clinch sheets as thin as .016 in./0.4 mm
- Attaches sheets as thin as .008 in./0.2 mm
- It provides added strength to your assembly
- Utilizes surface mount, weld technology, and presses to insert this specialized hardware on your design projects.
Riveting – Tubular and Pop
Joining metal components can be complex with a single method, but Accurate Metal Fabricating always has solutions. AMF can install pop riveting and tubular riveting to join components where the welding process can't be applied. Our team of experts can determine if riveting is a viable method for your project and advise you of all the best alternatives to enhance assembly for your design.
Our engineers can perform a joint analysis and determine whether the installed load requires a tension or shear load for your project. We can also help you determine whether bolts, welding, or riveting are the best choices for joining components. We have the capabilities for any option and can help you determine what best suits your project needs.
Benefits of Riveting:
- Just as robust as welding
- Establishes a very tight fit (not always possible with other fasteners)
- Ease of installation
- Joins multiple materials: steel, aluminum, plastics, composites, fabric, and pre-painted materials.
- Reduces your costs
Sheet Metal Fabricating Savings
Sometimes, welding can be applied, but riveting is the best choice because it saves money. See our case study for how we gave one client substantial savings by substituting riveting for welding. We offer a first-article inspection to ensure the quality of your component at the best price before we undertake the final production run. We have eight decades of experience, state-of-the-art equipment, and the capabilities to offer you more options for your design assembly.