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Big 5 Products is a metal fabrication workshop based in George Industria, Western Cape. We run fibre laser cutting, press brake bending, fibre laser welding, and CNC lathe turning in-house, serving contractors, engineers, manufacturers, agricultural businesses, architects, and product companies across South Africa. This page covers what we do, how we work, and what to expect when you bring a job to us.
Metal fabrication is the process of cutting, bending, joining, and finishing raw metal into a finished part or structure. It covers everything from a single custom bracket to a production run of thousands of identical components. The processes involved vary depending on the part geometry, material, tolerances required, and end use.
At Big 5 Products we run four core fabrication processes under one roof: fibre laser cutting, press brake bending, fibre laser welding, and CNC lathe turning. In-house capability across all four means a job that requires cutting and then bending and then welding stays in our workshop from start to finish, without handoffs between different suppliers that introduce delays and tolerance variation.
Fibre laser cutting is our primary cutting process. A high-powered laser beam, guided by CNC software, cuts through metal along a programmed path with accuracy typically within 0.05mm. It produces clean edges, tight tolerances, and minimal material waste, and it requires no physical tooling, which keeps costs down for short runs and one-off parts.
We cut mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, and brass. Material thickness ranges from light gauge sheet through to heavier plate depending on the material type. Files accepted in DXF and DWG. If you don’t have a production-ready file, contact us and we’ll work through what’s needed before the job starts.
Press brake bending forms flat sheet metal into angles, channels, flanges, and box sections by pressing it between a punch and a die. Our press brake handles bend lengths up to 3.2 metres with 300 tonnes of force, which covers the full range of sheet and plate work most fabrication jobs require.
Bending directly follows laser cutting for most jobs that need both processes. Because we run cutting and bending in the same workshop, the tolerance from the laser cut blank carries directly into the bend setup without a separate quoting, scheduling, and transport cycle between two different suppliers.
Fibre laser welding joins metal using a focused laser beam rather than a conventional arc or MIG process. It produces a narrow, precise weld with minimal heat distortion, which matters on jobs where the part geometry has to stay within tight tolerances after welding, or where the weld appearance is visible in the finished product.
On structural components like the brackets we fabricated for the Gondwana Lodge project, weld integrity matters as much as cut accuracy. Having welding in-house means we can move from cut blank to bent component to welded assembly in one continuous workflow and quality-check the result before it leaves the workshop.
CNC lathe turning produces cylindrical components with tight dimensional tolerances. Shafts, bushings, spacers, threaded components, and custom round-section parts are all within scope. The CNC control means the same part can be reproduced identically across a production run without dimensional drift between the first and last piece.
For jobs that combine turned components with laser cut or bent parts, having both processes in-house means the turned components and the sheet metal parts arrive at assembly stage at the same time, from the same supplier.
Most fabrication jobs move through a standard quote and production cycle. For jobs that cannot wait, we offer an express fabrication service that puts your job at the front of the production queue.
The express service is available at an additional surcharge and delivers your finished parts within 24 hours of order confirmation, subject to the project scale and material availability at the time. It is designed for contractors with a site deadline that can’t move, engineers with a prototype review the following day, or any situation where the cost of delay is higher than the cost of the express premium.
How it works: call us directly on 072 506 6551 or 082 900 0566 and tell us what you need and when. We’ll confirm immediately whether the job qualifies for 24-hour turnaround given current workshop load, and give you the express price on the spot. No quoting cycle, no back and forth over email. A straight answer on whether we can do it and what it costs.
The express service covers jobs within our standard material and thickness range. Very large runs or jobs requiring specialist material procurement are assessed individually.
Mild steel is the most common material across all four of our processes. It’s cost-effective, widely available, easy to cut, bend, and weld, and suitable for most structural and general fabrication applications when properly finished.
Stainless steel is the right choice for outdoor applications, coastal environments, food-contact surfaces, and anywhere corrosion resistance matters without ongoing maintenance. We cut and weld 304 and 316 grade stainless steel.
Aluminium is specified where weight is a constraint, natural corrosion resistance is needed, or a non-magnetic material is required. It requires specific laser settings to cut cleanly and is handled differently to steel across all four processes.
Copper and brass are cut on the same fibre laser platform with material-specific power and speed settings. Both are used in electrical, decorative, and specialised engineering applications.
For a full breakdown of each material, how it cuts, and what it’s suited for, see the [laser cut steel guide].
The majority of our fabrication clients fall into one of these categories:
Contractors and builders needing custom structural steel components, brackets, plates, and hardware on a projeMetal Fabrication South Africa: Big 5 Products, George Industria
Big 5 Products is a metal fabrication workshop based in George Industria, Western Cape. We run fibre laser cutting, press brake bending, fibre laser welding, and CNC lathe turning in-house, serving contractors, engineers, manufacturers, agricultural businesses, architects, and product companies across South Africa. This page covers what we do, how we work, and what to expect when you bring a job to us.
Metal fabrication is the process of cutting, bending, joining, and finishing raw metal into a finished part or structure. It covers everything from a single custom bracket to a production run of thousands of identical components. The processes involved vary depending on the part geometry, material, tolerances required, and end use.
At Big 5 Products we run four core fabrication processes under one roof: fibre laser cutting, press brake bending, fibre laser welding, and CNC lathe turning. In-house capability across all four means a job that requires cutting and then bending and then welding stays in our workshop from start to finish, without handoffs between different suppliers that introduce delays and tolerance variation.
Fibre laser cutting is our primary cutting process. A high-powered laser beam, guided by CNC software, cuts through metal along a programmed path with accuracy typically within 0.05mm. It produces clean edges, tight tolerances, and minimal material waste, and it requires no physical tooling, which keeps costs down for short runs and one-off parts.
We cut mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, and brass. Material thickness ranges from light gauge sheet through to heavier plate depending on the material type. Files accepted in DXF and DWG. If you don’t have a production-ready file, contact us and we’ll work through what’s needed before the job starts.
Full detail at [fibre laser cutting South Africa] and for local jobs specifically at [laser cutting in George].
Press brake bending forms flat sheet metal into angles, channels, flanges, and box sections by pressing it between a punch and a die. Our press brake handles bend lengths up to 3.2 metres with 300 tonnes of force, which covers the full range of sheet and plate work most fabrication jobs require.
Bending directly follows laser cutting for most jobs that need both processes. Because we run cutting and bending in the same workshop, the tolerance from the laser cut blank carries directly into the bend setup without a separate quoting, scheduling, and transport cycle between two different suppliers.
Fibre laser welding joins metal using a focused laser beam rather than a conventional arc or MIG process. It produces a narrow, precise weld with minimal heat distortion, which matters on jobs where the part geometry has to stay within tight tolerances after welding, or where the weld appearance is visible in the finished product.
On structural components like the brackets we fabricated for the Gondwana Lodge project, weld integrity matters as much as cut accuracy. Having welding in-house means we can move from cut blank to bent component to welded assembly in one continuous workflow and quality-check the result before it leaves the workshop.
CNC lathe turning produces cylindrical components with tight dimensional tolerances. Shafts, bushings, spacers, threaded components, and custom round-section parts are all within scope. The CNC control means the same part can be reproduced identically across a production run without dimensional drift between the first and last piece.
For jobs that combine turned components with laser cut or bent parts, having both processes in-house means the turned components and the sheet metal parts arrive at assembly stage at the same time, from the same supplier.
Most fabrication jobs move through a standard quote and production cycle. For jobs that cannot wait, we offer an express fabrication service that puts your job at the front of the production queue.
The express service is available at an additional surcharge and delivers your finished parts within 24 hours of order confirmation, subject to the project scale and material availability at the time. It is designed for contractors with a site deadline that can’t move, engineers with a prototype review the following day, or any situation where the cost of delay is higher than the cost of the express premium.
How it works: call us directly on 072 506 6551 or 082 900 0566 and tell us what you need and when. We’ll confirm immediately whether the job qualifies for 24-hour turnaround given current workshop load, and give you the express price on the spot. No quoting cycle, no back and forth over email. A straight answer on whether we can do it and what it costs.
The express service covers jobs within our standard material and thickness range. Very large runs or jobs requiring specialist material procurement are assessed individually.
Mild steel is the most common material across all four of our processes. It’s cost-effective, widely available, easy to cut, bend, and weld, and suitable for most structural and general fabrication applications when properly finished.
Stainless steel is the right choice for outdoor applications, coastal environments, food-contact surfaces, and anywhere corrosion resistance matters without ongoing maintenance. We cut and weld 304 and 316 grade stainless steel.
Aluminium is specified where weight is a constraint, natural corrosion resistance is needed, or a non-magnetic material is required. It requires specific laser settings to cut cleanly and is handled differently to steel across all four processes.
Copper and brass are cut on the same fibre laser platform with material-specific power and speed settings. Both are used in electrical, decorative, and specialised engineering applications.
For a full breakdown of each material, how it cuts, and what it’s suited for, see the [laser cut steel guide].
The majority of our fabrication clients fall into one of these categories:
Contractors and builders needing custom structural steel components, brackets, plates, and hardware on a project timeline. The Gondwana Lodge job is the clearest example of this in practice, 450 structural components across a phased build schedule with a hard site deadline.
Engineers and product designers bringing a DXF file and needing parts cut accurately to spec, whether that’s a single prototype or a short production run. No tooling cost makes laser cutting the practical option for low-volume precision parts.
Agricultural and industrial businesses needing replacement parts, custom fittings, or production components for equipment that isn’t served by a catalogue supplier. This is where local fabrication has a real advantage over ordering parts from a distant supplier with a long freight cycle.
OEM clients bringing a product design and needing ongoing production of components to their specification. See the full explanation of how that relationship works at the [OEM manufacturing guide].
Manufacturers and automation companies needing precision parts across mixed processes, laser cut blanks that then need bending or machining, where in-house multi-process capability keeps the job moving without supplier handoffs.
Minimum order value is R750 per job. There is no minimum part quantity above that. We quote on a beat-any-quote basis: if you have a comparable quote from another South African fabrication shop, send it to us and we will match or beat it.
Express service pricing carries an additional surcharge on top of the standard job rate. The exact amount depends on the job and current workshop capacity. Call to confirm.
All pricing is discussed and confirmed before any work begins. No surprises on the invoice.
Call 072 506 6551 or 082 900 0566, or email us at admin@big5products.co.za. We are at 20 Ring Street, George Industria, George, Western Cape, 6529.
For express jobs, call directly. We give you a straight answer on whether the 24-hour slot is available and what it costs, in one conversation.
We offer fibre laser cutting, press brake bending, fibre laser welding, and CNC lathe turning, all in-house at our George Industria workshop. Jobs that require more than one process are handled end to end without external handoffs.
Yes. We offer a 24-hour express fabrication service at an additional surcharge for jobs that qualify based on scale and current material availability. Call us directly on 072 506 6551 to confirm whether your job qualifies and get the express price on the spot.
R750 per job. There is no minimum part quantity above that threshold.
Mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, and brass across all four of our core processes. Material and grade selection depends on the application, environment, and budget of each job.
Call us on 072 506 6551 or 082 900 0566, or contact us through the website. Send your DXF or DWG file along with material specification, quantity, and any tolerance or finish requirements. We turn quotes around based on what the job actually needs to price accurately.
Yes. Sheet metal is the primary material across laser cutting and press brake bending. We cut and bend sheet in mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminium across a range of gauges and thicknesses.