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Metal Rolling and Fabrication

A Southern California metal rolling and structural fabrication shop with AWS-certified welders, serving aerospace, construction, automotive and petroleum customers.

Business Highlights

  • AWS-certified welders handling rolling, bending, cutting and full fabrication
  • Serves aerospace, construction, automotive, amusement park and petroleum sectors rather than one industry
  • EBITDA margins around 35%, strong for job-shop fabrication
  • Profitability has improved sharply

Considerations / Questions to Ask

  • AWS certification sits with the welders. What is their tenure, and does certification transfer with the shop?
  • Work is project-based and transactional. What does the order book look like going forward?
  • Aerospace and petroleum customers usually impose qualification requirements. What approvals are held?
  • What is the age and condition of the rolling and forming equipment?
  • Is the premises owned or leased, and on what terms?

Opportunities

  • Serving five distinct sectors means no single industry downturn takes the shop with it
  • Aerospace and petroleum work carries qualification barriers that already exist here
  • Transactional customers have never been converted into supply agreements
  • Certified welding capacity is genuinely scarce and constrains competitors more than demand does