TIG and MIG Welding Services in Southern California

Welding sits in the same building as the tube laser, the plate laser and the press brakes. That matters more than it sounds: parts never ship between vendors mid-build, nothing waits on someone else's schedule, and when a fit-up problem appears there is one shop accountable for it rather than three pointing at each other.

Because the cut parts arrive with keys, tabs and etched part numbers already in them, assemblies locate themselves. Less fixturing, less measuring, fewer mistakes on long weldments.

The weld department runs TIG, MIG, pulse MIG, push-pull aluminum MIG and flux-core, manual and robotic. Manual stations are Miller Millermatic 255 and 252 MIG welders, and Miller Dynasty 400, Miller Syncrowave 350 LX and Everlast TIG welders, on four ground 5 × 10 ft fixture tables, with rotary positioners for round and repeat work; we build our own weld fixtures. Production and repeat weldments run in a robotic cell: a FANUC ArcMate 210iD/12L long-reach robot on a Lincoln Power Wave power source.

Materials we weld every week: mild steel (A36, A1008 and A1011), 4130 chromoly, 304 and 316 stainless, and 5052, 5083 and 6061 aluminum, from thin-gauge sheet through multi-pass welds on plate over 1/2 in.

Our welders are certified to AWS D1.1 (structural steel), D1.2 (structural aluminum), D1.6 (stainless steel) and D17.1 (aerospace fusion welding). Written weld procedures (WPS and PQR) are on file, we weld to customer-supplied procedures, and a Certified Welding Inspector is on call. Dye-penetrant and magnetic-particle inspection are done in-house, radiographic or ultrasonic testing is sent out when a job calls for it, and finished weldments are checked on the same Zeiss Spectrum CMM, Keyence WM-C6025 wide-area CMM and Keyence VL 3D scanner as our machined parts, under the same AS9100D quality system.

Beveling and weld prep, post-weld straightening, and grinding flush or cosmetic blending are done in-house; stress relief is sent out. A 12-ton remote-controlled gantry crane puts single parts up to 24,000 lb on the weld table. The largest weldment to leave the building measured 50 × 12 × 8 ft; the practical limit is what fits through our 14 ft wide doors and on a semi trailer. Typical work: bent-tube frames and chassis, machine bases and robot-cell frames, brackets and mounts, enclosures, tanks and guarding, including large, heavy-section aluminum assemblies.

Customers are across the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Orange County, and parts ship across Southern California. If your weldment needs a material, process or certification you do not see here, ask; the answer is usually a phone call.