Stainless Steel Cable Railing for Light Rail Train Stations

This photograph shows the cable railing fabricated by our welders and fabricators at Astro Engineering and Manufacturing installed at a transit station. 

In 2011 we were awarded the contract to fabricate the stainless steel railing for the stations of the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (CCLRT) system running between Minneapolis and St Paul.  For the past 2 years we’ve been field measuring, drafting, saw cutting, polishing, and welding thousands of feet of railing of which the last of it was recently installed.

Astro has been fabricating cable railings for years for both commercial and residential uses.  The posts and top rail can be made of a variety of metals.  Stainless steel, due to its corrosive resistance, is considered the top of the line product, requiring no coating for a great looking product for years and years.  Aluminum posts and rails are lower cost, but needs paint or anodizing to keep it looking in top shape. 

Astro Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. is primarily sought-after for its stainless steel fabrication services. We are equipped with metal shears, CNC turret punch presses, CNC press brakes, and CNC laser cutting and machining. Astro is certified for its stainless steel TIG welding capabilities. As leading stainless steel fabricators, we customarily work with: architects, building contractors, food and beverage units, industrial machinery manufacturers, and more.

Here are the three key differentiators make Astro the preferred stainless steel fabricators across continental United States and beyond:

• Customized, responsive service: We are known for our outstanding customer support as we provide value engineering, custom solutions, superior workmanship, and on time delivery.  
• Technical acumen: The best tools and equipment become even better in the hands of our able and experienced technical team. We are customarily called on to build high-quality thermal augers for the food and bio-energy industries. These capabilities are accentuated with our leading-edge software capabilities.
• Comprehensive service capabilities: In addition to its proven expertise as stainless steel fabricators, Astro provides a wide range of services such as contract manufacturing, laser cutting, certified welding, engineering and design, and more.

We encourage you to visit our website www.astroeng.com to learn more about our full array of services. We are an all-American firm that provides fabrication and engineering services at highly competitive prices.

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Stainless Steel Fabrication – An Astro Specialty Since 1987

Astro Engineering was actually founded with stainless steel fabrication when we first opened our doors in 1987. That’s more than two decades which gives us a depth of experience that few have. Over that time we’ve been able to develop and refine both the processes and the tools we use in metal fabrication for everything from punched and formed stainless conveyor belting to stainless spiral chutes to stainless stair rails.

Our products are used in industry where ease of maintenance and longevity are paramount. For instance, we have an excellent reputation in the food industry for outstanding stainless steel fabrication. We build many custom items like screw conveyors and chutes fabricated from stainless steel which we design for easy cleaning in order to meet safety regulations while maintaining profitability.

Excellent quality control
The kind of metal fabrication we offer requires the attention to detail and experience that Astro provides. Our quality control includes regular inspection of both our equipment and our products. We make good use of print reviews and pre-fab conferences and make quality control an integral part of our training. All this and more assures buyers that our stainless steel fabricators consistently meets and even exceeds our customer’s requirements.

We also make sure we have exactly the right equipment we need to be sure we can create the kind of stainless metal fabrication our customers need. For example, we are experts with SolidWorks™ 3-D design. We understand cutting precisely with laser and our certified welding means we meet high standards when we fabricate stainless steel equipment and parts. We are also experts and machining and forming to order.

Known for our understanding of the materials involved and our creativity, we can take your idea – even if it’s only roughly sketched out – and turn it into exactly the product you need and want. We are also excellent at problem solving. If you’ve got metal conveyors or other items that aren’t working exactly the way you want it, let us show you how we can use our experience and imagination to make the needed changes. With more than 20 years of precision sheet metal fabrication you can be certain we know what we’re doing and that you’ll benefit from our experience.

More than stainless steel
Of course, we’re not limited to stainless steel for our metal fabrication. Our projects include metal light covers, elevator panels, copper wall trim, powder-coated steel store fixtures, and much more. We also work with aluminum products like sun shades and canopies. We bring the same high standards to our sheet metal fabrication as we do to our stainless products.

We are certified to work with metal fabrication in many government categories including DBE, WBE, SBA certified SBD, TGB, CERT. We’re familiar with government processes and have a reputation for completing projects on time and on budget.

At Astro Engineering we make metal perform.

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