Metal Bending and Forming

Metal Forming and Bending Services

Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company offers a wide range of metal forming and bending services. Whether you need simple aluminum channels or complex metal bending for a special project, we have built our reputation on our ability to complete projects that many other fabricators shy away from.

Detailed Capabilities Include

  • Extensive Capabilities: With press brake capacities up to 750 tons and 20', GMFCO can bend, form, flatten, and straighten fabrications with the most demanding specifications.
  • Materials worked with include: Stainless steel, Aluminum, Hot Rolled Steel (HRS), Cold Rolled Steel (CRS), Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled (HRPO), Abrasive Resistant Materials, AR 400, T-1, Cor-Ten and Tantalum
  • Radius forming to your template: Radius forming can be completed for tangents, angles, channels, hat channels, inverted hat channels, square to rounds, rectangle to round, obrounds, approximate ellipses and ellipses
  • Rolling plate and sheet: Plate and sheet can be rolled into cylinders and cylinder segments, helixes, cones; concentric or eccentric


Let's Form Your Vision

We can bend, form, flatten, and straighten with powerful press brake capacities up to 750 tons and 20'

Detailed capabilities include:

  • Rolling bars, channels, and more: bars, channels, angles, tube and pipe can be rolled into rings and ring segments
  • Rolling plate and sheet: Plate and sheet can be rolled into cylinders and cylinder segments, helixes, cones; concentric or eccentric
  • Radius forming to your template: Radius forming can be completed for tangents, angles, channels, hat channels, inverted hat channels, square to rounds, rectangle to round, obrounds, approximate ellipses and ellipses
  • Materials worked with include: Stainless steel, Aluminum, Hot Rolled Steel (HRS), Cold Rolled Steel (CRS), Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled (HRPO), Abrasive Resistant Materials, AR 400, T-1, Cor-Ten and Tantalum
  • For more information about metal bending capabilities at Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company, contact us today.

Metal Forming and Bending Markets

  • Architectural
  • Commercial
  • Communications
  • Concrete Precast Molds
  • Environmental Controls & Instruments
  • Fabricated Metal Products
  • Food Processing Equipment
  • General Construction
  • Hydro-Electric
  • Industrial
  • Marine
  • Power Transmission
  • Power Generation
  • Printing
  • Pulp and Paper
  • Semiconductor
  • Utility
  • Granular and Powder Bulk Material Handling Equipment
  • Steel Service Centers
  • Stainless Steel Service Centers
  • Special Industry Machinery
  • Architectural Design Firms
  • Sign Companies
  • Machine Shops
  • Paint Colorant Dispensing Equipment
  • Paint Blending Equipment (shakers)
  • Engineering Companies
  • Awning Manufacturers
  • Oil Exploration and Drilling
  • Art
  • Radio Wave Transmission
  • Television Broadcasting
  • And moreā€¦