The Anderson brothers founded Skilcraft Sheet Metal, Inc. in Burlington, Kentucky in 1965. Trading on the Andersons' expertise in welding and polishing, the steel fabrication company’s initial success came from making stainless-steel kitchen equipment. Today, Skilcraft is one of the leading sheet metal fabrication companies in the region, serving a broad range of industries and OEM markets.

In June of 2004, Skilcraft LLC, an equity group headed by Jay Vierling of AEV Capital, purchased Skilcraft Sheet metal, Inc. With an infusion of new capital, tooling, automation and training, Skilcraft’s capabilities were strengthened. Through manufacturing investment and resources, the company’s strategic position was enhanced as a world-class contract manufacturer and provider of precision sheet metal fabrication services.

Who We Are Today
At Skilcraft, we still pride ourselves on being a pioneer in the rapidly changing world of manufacturing for OEMs. Through testing and early adoption of new technologies, we are not only leaders in precision sheet metal fabrication, but have become a trusted provider of value-added manufacturing solutions. This heritage of innovation continues today with transformation to CNC laser cutting technology, from single prototype manufacturing to high volume production. The installation of Skilcraft’s Salvagnini Flexible Punching, Shearing and Forming Cell takes the operation to another level of automation that will contribute even more to the success of our customers.

Skilcraft Capabilities
If you are looking for a precision sheet metal fabricator, then Skilcraft is the fabricator that you need. We offer a wide range of sheet metal materials such as carbon steel, galvanneal, aluminum, stainless, and alloys fabrication solutions. Our vast amount of experience and number of facilities allows us to produce these products with exceptional quality, on time, and at competitive cost. To enhance production effectiveness, Skilcraft combines manufacturing expertise with the right production assets, including an array of fully automated machinery.

Perfect welds every time
Skilcraft’s engineering group and welding team have developed techniques implemented in the cutting of the weldment parts that ensure minimal excess welding, maintain high tolerance weldments, and also ensure high quality weld penetration. For customers that have high weld quality requirements for strength and certification along with a high finish requirement our welding capabilities do both.
Our robotic welding equipment not only welds parts in half the time, but also leaves behind a beautiful, uniform quality weld seam that enhances the look and durability of your fabricated products. With this automated fabrication investment, Skilcraft LLC has significantly higher welding capacity than ever before. Welding robots directly benefit your bottom line when sourcing precision-welded products.

Consistent Quality and Repeatability

This integrated robotic welding equipment includes torch cleaning, process monitoring and seam tracking to insure the highest quality of your weldments. With the high repeatability of a robotic welding process, your products can achieve unmatched uniformity and quality – whether you need 5 or 500 parts at a time.

 Speed and Flexibility

With the robotic welding workcells, typical arc welding cycle times are less than half of manual welding operations. Once your part is programmed, the automated cell can efficiently run large and small lot sizes, based on your needs. Allow Skilcraft to speed your jobs through welding operations at an affordable cost, whether working in stainless steel, mild steel or aluminum.

Skilcraft Manufacturing Solutions
Skilcraft not only manufactures components and products for world-class OEMs, but our unique experience in a number of industries and markets provides key advantages for more effective manufacturing solutions. Whether we’re enhancing product manufacturability of jet engine or medical surgical instrument parts, metal cabinets, optimizing production of air conditioning system components, or integrating assembly of food service equipment parts, Skilcraft adds value to every stage of the process.