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Why Choose Us Our Services Heavy Fabrication Custom Welding Structural Steel Rolling & Forming Painting & Blasting Providing Custom Welding and Fabrication Services Since 1956 From pre-fabrication to finishing, Swanton Welding can keep your fabrication project in house, eliminating the need for subcontracting work out to other companies, putting a strain on your budget and your timelines. By keeping the work within our 3 facilities, we minimize the risk of errors . Our in house Certified Welding Inspector (CWI), closely monitors projects through each stage making sure that each part of your project is made with precision and attention to detail. We are dedicated to the production of high-quality custom metal fabrication with on-time delivery that meets or exceeds our customer’s satisfaction. Our team and facilities are equipped to handle all your needs within our footprint. Conveniently located near major transportation hubs, Swanton Welding can utilize a combination of truck, air, rail, or ship to transport your metal fabrication project from Swanton Welding to its destination. Swanton Welding isn’t just a metal fabricator, we are a partner in the success of your fabrication project . Since 1956, Swanton Welding’s dependable team has been delivering the highest quality steel fabrications worldwide . As a customer-centric fabrication partner, we strive to consistently do our best for both our customers and our employees. This mindset has shaped a positive workplace environment for our skilled team of fabricators, welders, painters, and operators who have enabled our company to be the full-service, comprehensive, talented team your project needs. Project Gallery Project Gallery Steel Thrustframe Fabrication A customer from the gas exploration industry approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate an A36 and A-514 steel thrustframe weldment. The 225,000 lbs weldment was fabricated using a variety of processes, including CNC milling, MIG welding, drilling, laser cutting, bending, tapping and forming. The 54′ long and 8′ wide thrustframe was skillfully fabricated using […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Ladle Maintenance Carts Customer needed a way to conveniently transport large ladles to areas where they will be used. View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Catalytic Converter Fabricated stainless steel Catalytic Converter w/ Pipe Bundle. A customer approached us about doing this job out of stainless steel with the stainless pipe bundle being made out of a special seamless tubing. The timeline was critical as the customer had a two day plant outage scheduled and they needed this unit installed during that […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery 1270 Dredge View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Gasholder Digester Cover Fabrication and shop assembly of a gasholder digester cover. View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Fulton County Hospital Office Addition Swanton Welding was tasked with fabricating the steel framework for the new Fulton County Hospital addition in Wauseon, Ohio. We appreciated the opportunity to support Rupp/Rosebrock, Inc. and their construction crews as they constructed a four-story medical building that will attach to Fulton County Hospital. The team at Swanton Welding used our beam line to […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Support Structure Swanton Welding is fully equipped to meet all your large-scale structural steel project requirements in-house at our cutting-edge USA facility. We take pride in being a dedicated partner in the success of every fabrication project we complete. Recently, we collaborated with a client based in South Carolina to construct a support structure. Given its critical […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Stainless Steel Platform Custom fabricated stainless structural steel platform with carbon steel columns and handrails. View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Accumulator Tower for Metal Coating Process Structural Steel Tower This project consisted of constructing two similar towers. The entry side is pictured and the exit side can be seen in the distance. This new customer to Swanton Welding requested the project to be finish painted before it was delivered. These structural steel towers were assembled in the field and required very […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Tire Separator and Hopper The project involved making a hopper & separator for a tire recycling plant. The hopper was designed to dump truckloads of used tires. It has a motor and sliding floor system that was sloped to feed the tires to the separator, which would separate the tires based on size and feed them to additional equipment […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Discharge Hopper, Clarifier, Clarifier Structure, Catwalk & Stairs, Auger We custom built a large Discharge Hopper, a Clarifier used to remove slurry, the Clarifier Structure, accessible Catwalk & Stairs, and a custom Auger for the Clarifier. The most interesting thing about this project was its overall size and the custom auger we built. View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Industrial Conveyor Fabrication An agricultural industry client approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate twelve, 5,000 lbs conveyor components. Utilizing AutoCAD 2009, we first drafted complete shop fabrication drawings of the component. We then fabricated the 20′ long, 3’6″ high and 8′ wide conveyor section using a CNC beam line, saws, and drills. After fabrication, during which we […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Glass Furnace Rebuild – Support Steel A client proposed and drew the initial design of this support steel project. It will encase and support a glass melting furnace for the engineered reinforcements industry. Swanton Welding supplied materials such as tie rods, platform steel, stairs, and ladders for the 20 ft tool glass melting furnace. Fabrication, blasting, and painting were customized to […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Mixing Tank Fabrication A customer from the water treatment industry approached Swanton Welding & Machining to fabricate a mixing tank assembly. The 50,000 lbs. tank assembly was made up of many different parts and systems including rapid mix, reactor and clarifier tanks, a 16′-8″ long platform, and a 15′ high draft tube. To fabricate these components and many […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery 4100 Grillage Fabrication Barge Stabilizer Swanton Welding took on a project with a simple goal: support a 1500 tons crane with two barges. The heavy duty steel frame binding the two barges together, and the crane would be used to drive in bridge pilings. View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Bottom Casing for Glass Furnace This custom fabrication project was for approximately 30 Bottom Casings for a Glass Furnace. Each section had to have pads custom machined to ensure it was within 1 mm of flatness. After the individual casings were completed, we had to shop assemble the entire length of them and use a transit to ensure their critical […] View Project View All Projects Project Gallery Stainless Steel Hopper We custom...