To meet rising demand for fabricated-metal products, Fab Metals purchased a 6-kW fiber laser in 2017, and three months later brought in another, an 8-kW model. Fresh out of welding school in the early-1970s, Tom Hensley could not have known what technology awaited in his journey down the metal-fabrication path. In 1987, he opened a small two-man shop in Dayton, OH, armed with a couple of welding machines and metal-cutting saws. Over time the company has added press brakes, shears, and laser-cutting machines. In the late '90s Fab Metals relocated a few miles down the road, in a New Carlisle industrial park, adding more equipment - and customers.
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