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Hosted by Fabricators and Manufacturers Association · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 115 episodes
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The Fabricator Podcast features conversations with the people who make things out of metal: fabricators, welders, shop owners, manufacturers, and artists. Hosted by The Fabricator Editor-in-Chief Dan Davis with rotating co-hosts, the show explores manufacturing, the skilled trades, and the culture surrounding them. Part of the FMA Podcast Network.
Fabricators and Manufacturers Association hosts The Fabricator Podcast, a business show with 115 episodes published.
Andrew Llewellyn has spent his career welding and managing some of North America's largest power, infrastructure, and nuclear construction projects. In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, the UA pipefitter, Red Seal
Ted Redlarski, founder of Mississauga, Ontario-based Noram Enterprises , joins The Fabricator Podcast to discuss automation, entrepreneurship, and the leadership principles behind one of Canada's leading architectural me
Ian Johnson has worn a lot of hats throughout his career: automotive technician, high school shop teacher, television host, and now founder of Big Tire Garage and Digital Lug. In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, h
Milan Popik, owner of Metal Tronics in Mississauga, Ontario, joins The Fabricator Podcast to discuss transforming a family-run prototyping shop that started in his parents' basement 40-plus years ago into a highly automa
Bolu Ojo joins The Fabricator Podcast to discuss SparkDefy, a startup developing fire-resistant welding head coverings for people with long or thicker hair. She shares how a welding job inspired the idea, the challenges
Wisconsin-based metal artist David Groenjes joins The Fabricator Podcast to discuss building detailed wildlife sculptures from scrap metal, turning a side hobby into a full-time business, and finding inspiration in conse
Jake LeGrand of Missouri-based LeGrand Metal Works balances a full-time structural engineering career while growing a fabrication business focused on handheld plasma cutting, custom metal art, welding, and fabrication pr
At 23, Emme Hughes is already running a 10,000-square-foot fabrication shop. In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, she shares how she built EH Metalworks in Enid, Okla., from scratch, starting at 18 with no formal p
Jon and Andrew DeWys of Michigan-based DeWys Metal Solutions join The Fabricator Podcast to talk about growing and managing a 50-year-old family-owned manufacturing business. The father and son duo talk about how over th
Lori Tapani, co-owner and co-president of Wyoming Machine in Stacy, Minnesota, joins The Fabricator Podcast to discuss what it means to think differently when running a small manufacturing business. Alongside her sister,
Lisa Wertzbaugher of Iowa-based metal fabrication shop Wertzbaugher Services returns to the podcast to discuss the realities of running a small manufacturing business and offer practical advice for shop owners. She share
We’re joined by Chicago-based metal artist Eric W. Stephenson, founder of LunaBurn Studio and a fifth-generation craftsman. In addition to his own extensive career creating metal sculpture, Stephenson spent the final 23
Jeanette Vecchio Smith and Ken Pecho from Chicago Metal Rolled Products join us on our 100th episode to talk about CMRP’s role in shaping the Las Vegas Sphere. Ken, lead project engineer at Chicago Metal Rolled Products,
Colin Cosgrove, president and CEO of Laystrom Manufacturing in Chicago, returns to The Fabricator Podcast to discuss how a mid-sized fabrication shop can plan for growth intentionally while maintaining flexibility, cultu
In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Maxwell Keeler of Electro-Mechanical Integrators (EMI) explains how modern tube plasma cutting systems handle multiple material profiles, enable tab-and-slot construction, and r
Rod Galbreath, president of CenMac Metalworks , discusses how the Ohio-based company evolved from a small metal stamping operation into a laser-focused fabrication business. Galbreath explains why CenMac has prioritized
In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, guest host Nate Bowman (aka Weld Scientist) joins us as we speak with 3M abrasives application engineers Matt King and Kaeleigh Wilkins about the everyday realities of grinding,
Marc Levin joins us to talk about the Welder Underground , the New York City–based apprenticeship program he and his wife, Adina, launched in 2024 to help young people enter welding and fabrication. Supported by ESAB, th
Discover how Knapheide , a sixth-generation family-owned company in Quincy, Ill., evolved from building wagons in 1848 to designing highly customized service trucks today. Greg Schutte, director of fabrication, shares in
CEO John Axelberg has led General Stamping & Metalworks for more than 30 years, guiding the century-old metal manufacturer, headquartered in South Bend, Ind., through major shifts in technology and industry demands in me
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The Fabricator Podcast is hosted by Fabricators and Manufacturers Association. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 115 episodes.
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