Manufacturing - Steel Products

Hi, This is Arne Pedersen, owner and founder of Hill Agility Equipment

It became apparent to me that our customers often have had many questions as to how our products were built, as well, within wondering of why our prices are where they are.

I decided to design a manufacturing and shipping page with the intentions in providing fulfillment in our customers curiosity, as well, in showing how many time involving steps and procedures actually take place with the safe shop production and shipping of your orders, and that you are TRULY getting your money's worth in return.

Steel Manufacturing consists of many different procedures, some of these steps require precision of accuracy in marking out for cutting and drilling. Others require many long hours of wearing swelteringly hot and cumbersome hearing protection, respirators and skin protective clothing to keep the welding and cutting heat, burns and toxic fumes out of harms way. Other steps need less mental focus, yet require much more in the physical demand in the handling of long 20 to 24 foot full lengths of steel, as well the loading of equipment for shipping.

Steel manufacturing steps

Handling of steel from supplier to storage racks
Cutting steel to desired dimensions
Marking for any possible bends or holes to be drilled
Drilling any required holes
Prepping off all sharp edges from the cutting processes
Bending any required shapes in frames before welding
Clamping pieces in specific jigs and welding all steps in the required order (some of our products require up to 8 different intricate jigs for each of their specific steps in their welding processes)
Assembling each item to check for proper working before being OKAY for the sandblasting/powdercoating processes
All ready items are picked up by our powdercoating people
They are thoroughly sandblasted down to bare metal, leaving a grippy texture for powdercoating to stick too.
They are hung up onto huge racks on wheels, and then sprayed with the coloured powder with a static electric charge (to get the powder to flow thoroughly into all nooks and crannies)
The racks are wheeled into a bake room, and the heat melts the powder into the pours of the steel for a very durable and attractive finish.
Powdercoated frames are dropped off back at our facilities.
The finished wooden components, hardware, and any other required pieces are then attached.
Finished product is then inspected, now ready for shipping :)