Who are we?
We are Steel City Fabrications. Steel specialists offering a first class service on all steel works in and around Sheffield
Contact UsSteel City Fabrications Ltd is a Steel Fabrication business based in the heart of Sheffield, close to the M1 motorway, serving most of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and all surrounding areas. With over 16 years experience working in the steel industry we bring a vast wealth of knowledge and expertise to your steel fabrication projects and have built a personal reputation for excellence.
Our dedicated team promise professional punctuality throughout your entire ob. When we say we’ll deliver, we deliver! We promise to only use the best possible quality of materials and offer a life time guarantee on all products and fitting service.
We offer a wide range of products available for domestic, non-domestic and security projects. All products are available in a wide range of finishes and colours, including powder coating, zinc plating, galvanising or spray finish.
Steel City Fabrications will submit professional and competitive tenders where necessary for all contract work. We can supply and fit for local authorities, private builders, High Level Access projects and many more....
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There are so many great reasons to choose Steel City Fabrications for your next steel project, here are five of the best.
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Steel City Fabrications cover all aspects of steel work in the commercial sector, from structural beams to balconies, we have it covered.
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More InformationThe Home Of the Steel Trade!
Sheffield has been famous for the making of steel since at least the fourteenth century when one of Chaucer's pilgrims is described as carrying a Sheffield Thwitel in his hose.The proximity of iron ore, streams for power and suitable grinding stones made Sheffield an ideal centre for making steel. In the sixteenth century Sheffield began to increasingly specialise in making cutlery with the arrival of expertise in the form of Flemish immigrants and in the following century in 1624 a Company of Cutlers was established.
In the 1740s Benjamin Huntsman (1704-1776), a Sheffield man born to German parents made huge improvements to the steel making technique at Handsworth in the east of the city. Huntsman was a mechanic and an expert in making steel springs and pendulums for watches, but was unhappy with the quality of the steel.
Huntsman's new steel making process involved the use of a crucible, but his high quality steel was rejected by the Cutlers of Sheffield who refused to use his steel on the grounds that it was too hard to work. Huntsman exported his steel to France and from there French knives made of Huntsman's steel were exported back into England and outsold the work of the Sheffield cutlers. At first the cutlers tried to stop Huntsman from exporting but by 1750 his secret manufacturing methods had been discovered and were copied by other Sheffield cutlers. From then on the Sheffield steel industry boomed.
Steel making improvements continued in Victorian times particularly with the development of the Bessemer process of making steel in the 1850s. This was good fortune for the west Riding town of Sheffield, but a setback for the up the coming iron making town of Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which was not able to effectively adopt this process until the 1870s. The Bessemer process was invented by Henry Bessemer (1813-98) who set up a steelworks at Sheffield.
The next major event in the history of steel making was the making of Stainless Steel which was pioneered at Sheffield in 1903 - although it was developed in Germany and the USA at around the same time.
Sheffield was a major centre for the manufacture of armaments during the first and second world wars and as a target for enemy bombing, suffered much wartime damage.
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