Custom Metal Fabrication & Job Shops

The Laser That Handles Every Job Your Shop Takes On

Job shops and custom fabricators can't afford a machine that works for one material or one customer. Rise Tek fiber laser cutters handle mild steel, stainless, aluminum, brass, and copper — thin sheet to thick plate — so you can say yes to every RFQ that comes through the door.

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6 MaterialsOne Machine

±0.05mmCutting Accuracy

0.5–25mmThickness Range

24 hrService Response

Industry Challenges

What Custom Fab Shops & Job Shops Need from Cutting Equipment

No two weeks look the same in a job shop. Your cutting machine has to keep up with changing materials, order sizes, and customer specs — without consuming your margins in setup time and consumables.

Constant Material Changeovers

Job shops run mild steel before lunch and stainless after. Plasma requires electrode and nozzle changes plus re-setup per material. A fiber laser stores cutting parameters per material and thickness — a button press switches grades without downtime.

Wide Range of Order Sizes

Custom fab shops run 1-piece prototypes and 500-piece production runs on the same machine. Laser cutting programs from DXF — no tooling, no setup cost per part. Run one piece or a thousand with identical cycle times and edge quality.

Quoting Speed & Competitiveness

Job shops win or lose on quote turnaround. When your machine is the bottleneck, you quote conservatively. With a fiber laser capable of running 10–15× faster than plasma on typical job shop gauges, you quote tighter margins and win more work.

Consumable & Operating Costs

Plasma shops spend $8,000–$20,000 per year on electrodes, shields, and nozzles. Fiber laser consumables — primarily lenses and cutting nozzles — cost a fraction of that, and the electrical efficiency of a fiber laser is 3–4× better than comparable plasma systems.

Secondary Finishing Labour

Deburring plasma cuts, grinding dross, and cleaning oxidized edges adds hidden labour to every job — labour that doesn't show up in the quote. Fiber laser parts typically require no secondary finishing before welding, powder coating, or assembly.

Machine Downtime Risk

One machine down means missed deliveries and lost customers. Job shops can't absorb days of downtime waiting for overseas parts. Rise Tek keeps Canadian stock of critical spare parts and guarantees 24-hour technician response anywhere in Ontario and beyond.

Sheet Laser — Core Machine

HF Expert Series Fiber Laser

The go-to machine for job shops running mixed materials and order types. Cuts mild steel, stainless, aluminum, copper, and brass in gauges from 0.5mm to 25mm+ depending on power — one machine, one operator, any material that comes through the door.

1.5kW – 6kW 3015 / 4020 / 6020 Bed 6 Material Types

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Tube & Profile — Add-On

F1 High-Speed Tube Cutter

Expand into tube and structural profile work without manual layout, plasma, or sawing. The F1 cuts round, square, rectangular, and C-channel profiles for handrail, furniture, industrial frames, and custom weldments — all from DXF in minutes.

1.5kW – 6kW Tubes Ø10–120mm 150 m/min

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Bending — In-House

CNC Press Brake

Stop outsourcing bending. A CNC press brake pairs with your laser to complete enclosures, brackets, angles, and frames in-house. Reduce lead times from days to hours and capture the margin you're currently leaving at a forming shop.

40T – 320T Capacity 1600–4100mm Bed CNC Backgauge

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Why It Works

Why Job Shops Replace Plasma with Fiber Laser

The shops that switch from plasma to fiber laser don't go back. Here's what changes in the first 90 days:

Quote more, win moreFaster cycle times mean your cost-per-part drops on every job. You quote tighter, win more RFQs, and still improve margin — without running a second shift.
Say yes to stainless and aluminumPlasma struggles with stainless and aluminum — cut quality degrades, consumables burn faster. Fiber laser cuts both with clean, oxide-free edges and no material-specific setup beyond parameter selection.
Deburring station goes idleParts come off the laser ready for the next operation. The grinder and deburr wheel sit unused. That's one less person on secondary ops and faster job-to-shipment time on every order.
Prototypes and production on one machineDXF import means a 1-piece prototype and a 500-piece run use the same program. No tooling cost, no minimum order size — you can profitably run work that plasma shops decline as too small.

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We run a lot of different materials — can one fiber laser really handle all of them?

Yes. The HF Expert Series cuts mild steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, brass, and galvanized from a single platform. Each material and thickness combination has its own stored cutting parameter set — switching from 3mm mild steel to 2mm stainless takes seconds, not a tool change or setup. Job shops typically find that fiber laser opens material categories they couldn't profitably cut before (copper, brass, thin aluminum).

What's the real payback period for a job shop our size?

Most job shops running a single shift recover a fiber laser investment in 18–30 months, depending on current plasma consumable spend, labour hours on secondary finishing, and new work won by quoting tighter margins. Rise Tek will build a custom payback model for your shop based on your actual material mix, volumes, and labour rates — before you commit to anything.

We're a small shop — do we need a full-time programmer to run a laser?

No. The HF Series uses a touchscreen CNC interface with graphical job setup. If your operator can import a DXF and select a material from a list, they can run production parts within a few days of training. Rise Tek provides on-site training during installation and remote support during your first month. Most small shops have one multi-skilled operator who handles programming, setup, and operation on the same shift.

What happens if the machine goes down? We can't afford days of downtime.

Rise Tek maintains Canadian stock of critical spare parts and commits to 24-hour technician response on all machines under warranty. After the warranty period, service contracts are available. Unlike overseas suppliers where parts ship from China on 2–4 week timelines, Rise Tek's parts are in Canada — typically same-day or next-day dispatch. Our technicians are Canadian-based, not remote support routed through a time zone 12 hours away.