Businesses engage a Contract Manufacturer to build components or products that the company has chosen not to build in-house. The term can be used to encompass a wide scope of industry activities, but at SMT, we primarily focus on handling the outsourced building of large-scale industrial equipment, tanks, skids, pumps, conveyor systems, and the like.

Limited time, money, knowledge, and resources drive companies to seek outside solutions. Most businesses use a cost-benefit analysis to help determine what components need to be outsourced and what components can be built in-house.

It may be that the cost of equipment, hiring personnel, and/or the need for additional facilities will end up outweighing the benefits gained from manufacturing or building something in-house. Outsourcing helps keep the wheels of industry churning and helps businesses avoid having to recreate that wheel with every new enterprise.

Sometimes a business needs a component or piece of equipment that can’t be found in a catalog or at an equipment reseller, because that piece of equipment doesn’t exist, yet. Our engineers can design a one-off solution to meet your unique needs, and then turn around and fabricate that design in our 100,000 square foot facility.

Fortune 500 companies hire SMT to design, build and fabricate industrial equipment that is too complex or too costly for those businesses to produce on their own. If the company already has a design ready, SMT can build equipment to exact specifications and help oversee the final installation.

We have one of the largest and most advanced fabricating facilities in the world. Being located in Virginia positions us perfectly for serving the North East, South East, and Mid-West regions, and we even make it out to California and the West Coast on occasions. Virginia has some of the most active deep-water ports on the Atlantic seaboard, which allows for highly efficient international shipping.

We can’t tell you how many times companies have hired us to come in and fix some piece of equipment that was manufactured overseas. Why not avoid the headaches and the month-long shipping and hire a U.S. based contract manufacturing company?

Contact us to learn more about our fabrication and contract manufacturing capabilities.