Sheet Metal Materials Terms

A missing mill certificate can hold up a shipment of sheet metal parts for days. In some cases, it can [...]

When a shipment of sheet metal parts arrives at your receiving dock, someone has to confirm that the documentation is [...]

Every sheet of metal you order has a nominal thickness — 1.0 mm, 2.0 mm, 3.0 mm, and so on. [...]

Ask a fabricator for “16 gauge”, and the actual thickness will vary depending on whether the material is steel, aluminum, [...]

A material specification is a technical document — or a section within an engineering drawing — that defines exactly what [...]