PROCESSES
Woven Metal Products (WMP) does all our processing in-house in Alvin, Texas, USA, which means you get fast turnaround time and maximum efficiency for your projects.
We regularly reinvest in new equipment to improve our production accuracy and add fabrication capacity, training our team members to use the newest technologically advanced equipment, including robotic tools.
We are also able to program our machinery at our central programming center, so we can make edits from any machine terminal within the facility, allowing for immediate even last-second — changes.
Because some machinery is robotic, we can continue work for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, if needed, to meet our customers’ extremely tight timelines.
Cutting and forming metal creates stress in the material, causing it to expand and move. That’s why precision and accuracy is so important, and WMP meets or exceeds the standards set within the fabrication industry for tolerances.
You can learn more about WMP processing capabilities in the document linked below:
Learn more about WMP’s state-of-the-art equipment below:
Our Processes
Assemblies
Drilling
Forming
Knitted Wire
Laser
Machining
Plasma
Punching
Robotics
Sawing
Water Jet
Welding
Assemblies
Whether bolting, welding or any other method to assemble materials together, we have the tools and expertise to complete your product.
Drilling
Stainless Steel Carbon Steel
- Ferritic
- Austenitic
- Duplex
Carbon Steel
- Abrasive Resistance
- Chrome Moly
- Corten
Nickel Alloys
- Monel®
- Hastelloy®
- Incoloy®
- Inconel®
Other Metals
- Aluminum
- Carbon Steel Alloys
- Copper Alloys
- Pre-galvanized titanium
Forming
Knitted Wire
Laser
We have the latest laser cutting technology, including CO2 and fiber laser technology, capable of automated marking and etching. Our 6kw laser cutters are fully robotic with automatic loading and unloading capabilities — and can cut thickness up to 1 inch for stainless steel and tubes with 6-inch diameters. Our 5 feet by 10 feet cutting envelope means we can handle your large projects. Because they’re automated, our laser cutting capabilities are available for lights-out operation, 24/7.
Tolerances:
0” – 1/2” thick +/- .004”
1/2” – 1” thick +/-.010”
Machining
When you need machining capabilities, we can shape, shave and cut your materials into any desired shape and size. We can perform ultra precise turning and milling services with our computer numeric controlled (CNC) machinery to produce the exact end product you require.
Tolerances:
0.X +/- .015”
0.XX +/- .010”
0.XXX +/- .005
Plasma
Punching
Tolerances:
Hole size +/- .003”
Positioning +/- .005”
Robotics
Sawing
Water Jet
Water jet cutting gives precise, consistent cuts for any material — from metal and wood to glass and granite, and it’s preferred when material is sensitive to high temperatures. Our powerful water jet machinery features 55K PSI and can cut with water and garnet. We can handle material thicknesses up to 6 inches thick on our 6 feet by 12 feet table.
Tolerances:
(Up to 1-1/2” thick) Standard +/- 1/32”; as required to +/- .010”
(1-1/2” to 6” thick) Standard +/- 3/32”; as required to +/- .030”
Welding
Our shop features more than 50 welding stations, each with bulk gases piped into each station. Our welders are trained in gas metal arc welding (GMAW), including metal inert gas (MIG), as well as gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), also known as tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding.
We are proud to have more than five decades worth of certified welding procedures, all with procedure qualification records (PQRs) in our shop. And if customers have specific needs, we can generate new welding procedures.
For added efficiency, each of our welders has their own mobile tool station, so he or she can move to the project instead of moving the project to him or her. In addition to the below welding tools, we also have a fleet of robotic welding arms for 24/7, lights-off operations.
- 600-amp Submerged Arc Machines
- 200–350-amp Tig Machines
- 200–350-amp Mig Machines
- Combo Multi-process Welding Machines
- Automatic Seam Welders
- Resistance Welding Machines
- Thermal Dynamics 200-amp Plasma Cutters
- 100-amp Plasma Cutters
- ABB Fully Automated Welding Cells
- Diesel Welding Combo
- Power Drive Positioning Rolls
- 30,000 lb. Welding Positioner
- 6,000 lb. Welding Positioner
- 2,000 lb. Welding Positioner
- 250 lb. Welding Positioner