When it comes to choosing the right sheet metal software for your shop, it really comes down to budget, options and comfort level.

The new plant includes a second ACM routing table to increase SMS’s capabilities beyond ACM and into heavier single skin products, phenolic resin-based and fiber cement-based façade solutions as well.

Sheet metal contractors and top industry decision makers from around the country will converge Oct. 20-23 for the 2019 Annual SMACNA Convention at the JW Marriot in Austin, Texas. 

Much of what Alicia Butty knows about welding, she learned as a teenager working in her family’s custom manufacturing business, Butty Manufacturing in Jerseyville, Ontario.

At the Brooklyn, New York-based Gentlemen Sheet Metal, second-year apprentice Tiffany Crawford is a standout on the shop floor. Not only is she a woman in a painfully male dominated industry, her fiery work ethic is quickly positioning her to be a formidable force in ductwork fabrication.   

During the annual AHR Expo last month, you could clearly see why its reputation as 'The Big Show' for HVACR contractors is well-deserved. But while wandering the massive rows of sheet metal machinery and HVACR systems, I couldn't help but think small.

We have been complaining for years that we can’t get good quality young people into our industry. But now, we are putting together a project that I think will effectively reach hundreds, if not thousands, of potential young people looking for new opportunities.

At the start of this year, the Metal Roofing Alliance (MRA) predicted this would be the year when the concept of the “durable home” will become reality.

Last month, at the annual Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA) convention in San Diego, California, I had the pleasure of meeting many of SNIPS' longtime readers. To you I say: THANK YOU.

JETCAM International s.a.r.l. recently announced the new v20 release of its JETCAM Expert CAM and nesting automation software.