Steelworks Supply + Design

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Steelworks Supply + Design

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Beamline Services

CNC beamline processing drilled, coped, and cut to your drawings

We run beams, columns, channels, and all structural shapes through an automated line so your crew can skip layout and drilling to get straight to fit-up.

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1–5 days

Typical turnaround

100%

Mill-certified traceability

Why beamline

Hand layout is where schedules go sideways

Marking and punching by hand is slow, and every hole is a chance for a connection to miss in the field. Our beamline takes the geometry directly from your detailing model and reproduces it identically on the first piece and the last.

That means fewer field fixes, cleaner fit-up, and predictable shop hours you can bid against. For fabricators, it is outsourced capacity that does not cost you control — everything runs out of one Nashville facility, alongside our plate processing, shearing, forming, and stock steel inventory.

Capabilities

One setup for every connection you need

Drilling & Punching

Multi-spindle drilling of bolt holes, slots, and sub-punched connections in the web and both flanges, driven straight from your DSTV/NC files — no layout, no marking, no rework.

Drilling & Punching

Multi-spindle drilling of bolt holes, slots, and sub-punched connections in the web and both flanges, driven straight from your DSTV/NC files — no layout, no marking, no rework.

Coping & Notching

Flange copes, web notches, block cuts, rat holes, and beveled weld prep produced in one pass so connections drop straight into fit-up.

Coping & Notching

Flange copes, web notches, block cuts, rat holes, and beveled weld prep produced in one pass so connections drop straight into fit-up.

Cut-to-Length

Square and mitered cuts held to tight length tolerances on beams, columns, channel, angle, tube, and bar — cut to member, not to stock length.

Cut-to-Length

Square and mitered cuts held to tight length tolerances on beams, columns, channel, angle, tube, and bar — cut to member, not to stock length.

Layout Marking & Scribing

Hard-stamped piece marks and scribed centerlines for stiffeners, clips, and base plates, so downstream fitters and welders work from the steel instead of the prints.

Layout Marking & Scribing

Hard-stamped piece marks and scribed centerlines for stiffeners, clips, and base plates, so downstream fitters and welders work from the steel instead of the prints.

Shear & Camber Prep

Stiffener holes, shear-stud layout, and cambered-member handling coordinated with your erection sequence and detailing model.

Shear & Camber Prep

Stiffener holes, shear-stud layout, and cambered-member handling coordinated with your erection sequence and detailing model.

Surface & Finish Options

Blast cleaning, primer, and galvanizing coordination available so processed members leave ready for shop paint or the field.

Surface & Finish Options

Blast cleaning, primer, and galvanizing coordination available so processed members leave ready for shop paint or the field.

How it works

From model file to marked steel on your truck

01 Send drawings or model files

Consultation and Assessment

We accept DSTV/NC, DXF, IFC, Tekla and SDS/2 exports, or plain PDF shop drawings. Our detailing team reviews for beamline compatibility before anything hits the line.

02 Material confirmed & staged

Consultation and Assessment

Pull from our Nashville inventory or bring your own steel. Heat numbers are recorded and matched to pieces for full traceability.

03 Processed on the beamline

Consultation and Assessment

Drilling, coping, and cutting run in a single automated setup, holding tolerances that hand layout can't repeat across a production run.

04 QC, marked & delivered

Consultation and Assessment

Every piece is piece-marked and inspected to AISC and AWS standards. MTRs packaged with the load, and local delivery on your erection schedule.

Who we serve

Beamline work for shops, builders, and manufacturers across Middle Tennessee

Steel fabricators

Overflow and outsourced beamline capacity when your shop is loaded — keep the drilling and welding, hand off the hole work.

Steel fabricators

Overflow and outsourced beamline capacity when your shop is loaded — keep the drilling and welding, hand off the hole work.

Steel fabricators

Overflow and outsourced beamline capacity when your shop is loaded — keep the drilling and welding, hand off the hole work.

General contractors

Miscellaneous and structural members processed to spec so your erector isn't drilling in the field.

General contractors

Miscellaneous and structural members processed to spec so your erector isn't drilling in the field.

General contractors

Miscellaneous and structural members processed to spec so your erector isn't drilling in the field.

OEM & industrial

Repeatable production runs of framing, skids, racking, and equipment bases with consistent hole patterns piece to piece.

OEM & industrial

Repeatable production runs of framing, skids, racking, and equipment bases with consistent hole patterns piece to piece.

OEM & industrial

Repeatable production runs of framing, skids, racking, and equipment bases with consistent hole patterns piece to piece.

Architects & designers

Exposed structural steel processed cleanly, with connections detailed to stay out of sight in the finished space.

Architects & designers

Exposed structural steel processed cleanly, with connections detailed to stay out of sight in the finished space.

Architects & designers

Exposed structural steel processed cleanly, with connections detailed to stay out of sight in the finished space.

Quality & documentation

Certified material, documented every step

Processing is performed to AISC fabrication standards with weld prep per AWS D1.1. Every order ships with mill test reports, heat-number-to-piece-mark traceability, and a dimensional inspection record on request.

AISC-standard fabrication practice

AWS D1.1 weld preparation

ASTM-certified material

Full MTR documentation package

Send us your beam list and we’ll quote it

Drawings, an NC file, or even a sketch on a bid set — our team reviews every submission and comes back with pricing and lead time.

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