Medford Fabrication

Medford Fabrication offers a diverse range of metals fabrication, assembly, installation and finishing services. From customized one-offs to repetitive production runs, we can plan, engineer, manufacture, test and document your finished products. Whether you are in the conceptual stage or have complete manufacturing drawings, we have the resources and experience to convert your potential sales into quality, deliverable products.

Four generations of the Thorndike family have helped Medford Fabrication grow as a provider of a wide range of metal fabrication services. From its beginnings in the 1940’s as Medford Steel and Medford Blow Pipe to the present, as times have changed, so has Medford Fabrication. The one thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the family’s commitment to quality, a characteristic that marks Medford Fabrication’s past and its future.Whether the customer is a small, family owned sawmill or a large multi-national equipment manufacturer, Medford Fabrication is dedicated to providing quality service and performance. From its equipment to its people, the company invests in, and expects, the best.

Quality Assurance

Medford Fabrication is more than a family operated business with a tradition of and a commitment to quality. It is also an organization that has manufactured products to Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standards for more than forty years. The company boasts a fully implemented Quality Assurance Program [pdf] (ANSI/ASQC Standard Q9002-1994) including a team of Quality Assurance Inspectors, a Welding Program Manager certified by the American Welding Society, and registered Professional Engineers.

Proven Capability

The engineering and manufacturing systems at Medford Fabrication are proven and capable. Our design engineering department uses AutoCAD 2000 and Autodesk Inventor for product design and drafting. We have professional engineers on staff who utilize the latest design software, including Working Model 4.0 for complex moving mechanisms and Visual Analysis 3.50.c for structural analysis and design. Our manufacturing engineering group uses SmartCam 11.5 to program Medford's CNC machines and burning operations.

Generations of Experience

Of course, the best gauge of capability may be experience. Satisfied customers, large and small, have returned to Medford Fabrication year after year. Generations of the Thorndike family have met the needs of the company’s customers.

Remarkable Flexibility

A company providing both one-of-a-kind custom fabrication to individuals and large production manufacturing runs to international corporations needs to be flexible. Medford Fabrication is an integrated, coordinated, experienced solutions provider.

Coordinated Efficiency

Tight, efficient coordination of people, technology, and logistics is maintained in Medford. For customers, the advantage is a seamless integration of design, manufacturing, and administration. Rapid, flexible, and intelligent responses to changes or problems are the norm, not the exception.