STEEL BUYING GUIDE FOR FABRICATORS

What You’ll Find in the Steel Buying Guide

The Brown Strauss Steel Buying Guide for Fabricators is a practical checklist designed to help estimators, buyers, procurement teams, and fabrication shops organize the information they need before requesting a quote.

Material availability, required lengths, cut lists, processing needs, mill schedules, domestic requirements, freight, storage, and delivery sequencing can all affect the real timing and cost of a project.

Use our guide to prepare your next RFQ, evaluate stock versus mill-order material, identify potential processing and delivery requirements, and help your structural steel supplier build a quote around the way your shop actually works.

The more your structural steel supplier understands your project, the better positioned we are to evaluate inventory, timing, material utilization, processing, and delivery options.

This guide walks fabricators through the key information to gather before requesting pricing for:

• Wide-flange beams and W-shapes
• Square and rectangular HSS
• Structural steel channels
• Structural pipe
• Angles
• Other structural shapes