Category: Fab Shop Tips

The heat-affected zone (HAZ) is a critical region in the vicinity of a welded or heat-affected area in a material, where its microstructure and mechanical properties undergo significant changes due to the heat generated during welding or other thermal processes.

Waste happens—that’s a basic fact of life both at home and at work. Learning to manage waste efficiently, however, can have a significant impact not only on the environment but also on the bottom line in a metal fabrication shop.

Transforming Metal with Heat Almost as long as there has been metalworking, artisans have used heat to assist in their work. Likely around 6000 BCE, the process of smelting was developed in the Near East when early metalworkers discovered that certain rocks containing copper ores could be heated in a fire to extract the metal, […]