Sheet Metal
High standards are the signature of Danforth Sheetmetal Fabrication.
Our sheetmetal fabrication facilities in Buffalo and Rochester, allow us to provide cutting, bending, welding, and machining services for all types of metal including galvanized, stainless steel, aluminum or any other sheet metal or light iron in Buffalo, Rochester, and Niagara Falls.
Using computerized scheduling and statistical process control we’ll put the industry’s most advanced machinery to work to manufacture the highest quality products. We are committed to meeting all SMACNA sheetmetal fabrication standards for ductwork, forming and fabrication. Located in headquarters outside Washington, D.C., the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA), is an international association of union contractors that has 1,944 members in 98 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Brazil.
CAPABILITIES
Shop Capacities Guidelines
1. Cutting
a. Shears
Mild Steel up to 3/8” thick x 10’ long
Stainless Steel up to 3/8” thick x 10’ long
Coil Line
Mild Steel – 16gauge
Stainless Steel – 20 gauge
b. Plasma Cutters
Lockformer 2900 Max 100
3/8” plate at 60” per minute maximum
Vulcan 3100 High Def HPR 130
¾” plate at 25” per minute maximum
c. Ironworker
Pirahanna – angle iron and punch press. 50 ton capacity.
d. Saws
Abrasive Saw
Concent Horz bandsaw
Start-rite bandsaw
2. Forming
a. Press Brakes
Piranha 200 ton – 2” bott v die – 8” deep throat
¼” plate mild steel at 120”per minute
¼” plate stainless steel at 96” per minute
HTC 100 ton 8” deep throat
102 “ between uprights
10 gauge mild steel at 96” per minute
16 gauge mile steel at 120” per minute
b. Rollers
5’ Roundo – 8” diameter pipe at 60” long –16 ga stainless steel
5’ Waldemar – 12” diameter pipe at 60” long –1/4” plate mild steel
5’ Builtrite- 6” diameter pipe at 60” long- 18 ga. mild steel
c. Rollforming Machines
Pittsburg – 18 ga. galvanized with barslip station
22 ga. with s/d station Snaplock
TDC with cleat and standing steam –1”
Triplex flange/gilledge/dovetail/slips and drivers
Founded in 1884, Danforth specialized in Sheetmetal fabrication in Buffalo, Rochester, and Niagara Falls, New York.