Sheet Metal Forming Association

Many small companies are required to manufacture curved products and shallow parts with fine details in a small lot size which leads to both a higher production cost per detail and a need for multiple tools.

Sheet metal forming association. Icospa international council of sheet metal presswork associations national metalforming centre 47 birmingham road west bromwich west midlands b70 6py email. Sheet metal forming is a costly manufacturing process that is widely used in different industries. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal. Sheet metal the sheet metal arm of smart formerly the sheet metal workers international association represents 136 000 members in the sheet metal and related trades.

44 0 121 601 6350. The fabricators manufacturers association. Our union has a reputation for providing its signatory partners and customers a professionally trained work force that strives to always deliver excellence in workmanship. North america s largest metal forming fabricating welding and finishing event.

Welcome located in surrey british columbia the british columbia sheet metal association smacna bc is one of the leading construction associations in british columbia. The precision metalforming association pma is the full service trade association representing the 137 billion metalforming industry of north america the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping fabricating spinning slide forming and roll forming technologies and other value added processes. Fma celebrates 50 years. Located in headquarters outside washington d c the sheet metal and air conditioning contractors national association smacna an international association of union contractors has 1 834 members in 103 chapters throughout the united states canada australia and brazil.

Worldwide around 12 300 companies employing 600 000 workers produce sheet metal goods worth over 732 billion us dollars all numbers reflect the situation in 1999. These are impressive numbers for sheet metal manufacturing to which forming processes are central but also for cutting and joining technologies with their increasing importance. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. Precision metalforming association pma is the full service trade association representing the 137 billion metalforming industry of north america the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping fabricating spinning slide forming and roll forming technologies and other value added processes.

Maziar ramezani zaidi m. Thicknesses can vary significantly. One of our main purposes is to implement high standards of work within the industry. Smacna bc representing the sheet metal industry in british columbia find a contractor adhering to smacna s high technical standards.