Fabrication in Hartford, WI
Custom steel fabrication built to spec for Hartford-area manufacturers, from the same family-owned crew that has called this city home since 2003.
Precision fabrication rooted in a Hartford tradition
Hartford has been a manufacturing town since long before Schumacher Machine Repair Company existed. In the early 1900s, the Kissel Motor Car Company turned this small Wisconsin city into a real industrial center, building cars, trucks, and ambulances and employing hundreds of local workers in the process. That era left Hartford with a lasting identity built around skilled metalwork, tight tolerances, and people who took pride in building things correctly.
We’ve been headquartered in Hartford since 2003, and that same standard carries through every fabrication project we take on. The products have changed, brackets, subframes, platforms, and supports for today’s manufacturers rather than automobiles, but the expectation hasn’t: components built to fit and built to last.
What’s Included
When you bring a fabrication project to our Hartford shop, here’s what’s included:
- On-site welding and fabrication
- Custom brackets, subframes, platforms, and supports
- Millwright-led field modifications and equipment tie-ins
- Project-based fabrication to support installs and rebuilds
- Component adaptation to match field conditions
- Structural and production welding
Our Approach
For fabrication projects that need custom drawings, our CAD and engineering team develops the working drawings before any steel is cut.
Our millwrights cut, weld, modify, and build components, whether that work happens in our Hartford shop or directly on-site at your facility.
Components are built to specification and installed by the same team that fabricated them, so accountability and accuracy carry through from start to finish.
Other Services in Hartford
Fabrication is often just one part of a larger project. Other services we provide in Hartford include:
Machine installation
Safe, precise rigging and placement of industrial machinery.
Learn More →Welding
Structural and production welding for manufacturing facilities.
Learn More →Millwright services
Installation and maintenance of industrial machinery, done by hands-on tradespeople.
Learn More →Automation & production line reorganization
Reconfiguring and integrating production lines to improve plant layout and workflow.
Learn More →CAD & engineering drawings
Working drawings and engineering support for fabrication and installation projects.
Learn More →Project management
Coordinated planning and oversight from design through installation.
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We provide fabrication services to manufacturers throughout Southeastern Wisconsin, including:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Every fabrication project is scoped around what the job actually needs, not a fixed timeline. A single custom bracket might be built and installed within a day or two, while a full platform or multi-piece support system can take several weeks from design through installation. We walk through your project’s scope with you and set a realistic timeline before any work begins, because getting the fit right matters more than hitting an arbitrary date.
We work primarily in structural and mild steel, plate, angle, channel, and tube, to build brackets, subframes, platforms, supports, and other custom components. Our field crews handle cutting, welding, and fitting on-site, so components can be fabricated and installed by the same team without shipping raw material out to a third-party shop.
Most of our fabrication work takes place inside existing manufacturing facilities and doesn’t require a separate building permit, but every plant has its own safety and engineering requirements. We coordinate with your facility’s engineering or safety team on anything site-specific, and when a project needs stamped or detailed drawings, our CAD and engineering team can develop those as part of the process.
Both. A lot of our fabrication work starts as a one-off custom build, a bracket, support, or platform made to fit a specific piece of equipment, but we also handle repeat and recurring fabrication work for Hartford-area manufacturers we’ve built an ongoing relationship with.
Call us at (414) 412-4994 or request a quote through our contact form. It helps to have a general idea of what you need built, along with any dimensions, sketches, or photos of the equipment or space involved, but we’re happy to talk through the details together and figure out next steps from there.
Let’s talk about your Hartford project
Reach out by phone or request a quote online, whichever’s easier.