Approved Sheet Metal

10/30/2026

Know someone who looks at a sheet metal drawing and immediately starts asking questions?

“How are they planning to bend that?”
“Did they include the hardware?”
“What happens after it’s welded?”

Send this their way.

We’re hiring an experienced Sheet Metal Fabrication Estimator at Approved Sheet Metal. We need someone who can work through the fabrication details and turn them into accurate quotes for custom parts and assemblies.

If you know sheet metal well enough to see the questions behind the drawing, we’d like to meet you.

The position is full-time and hybrid in Hudson, NH.
View the opening and apply: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=ecb3bb6ef5f87df6

10/29/2026

📢 We're Hiring! Finance Manager / Accountant

Approved Sheet Metal, Approved Machining, and MACY INDUSTRIES, INC. are looking for an experienced accounting professional to join our growing team!

We're looking for someone who is detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable handling day-to-day accounting while helping our businesses continue to grow.

What we're looking for:

✅ 5+ years of accounting experience
✅ Experience with QuickBooks and Excel
✅ Knowledge of accounts payable, receivable, reconciliations, and financial reporting
✅ Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
✅ Manufacturing or job costing experience is a plus!

📍 Location: Hooksett, NH
💼 Full-Time Position

This is a great opportunity to work closely with ownership and make a real impact across three growing New Hampshire manufacturing businesses!

📩 Interested or know someone who might be a great fit?

Contact Ron Wright at [email protected] for more information or to apply.

Please share to help us find the right person!

10/28/2026

QUICK QUIZ:

Which of these can interrupt the intended grounding path?

A) Powder coating over a contact point
B) An ordinary painted hinge
C) An unbonded removable panel
D) All of the above

The answer is D. All three.

Adding a grounding stud is a start, but electricity needs the complete route. Finishes, moving components, removable sections, hardware, and contact surfaces all affect whether every required section remains properly bonded.

Our latest blog explains how to map and protect that path before fabrication begins: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/how-to-incorporate-electrical-grounding-features-into-custom-precision-sheet-metal-parts

10/27/2026

A good welding setup sometimes clicks into place. Literally. 🧩

Slots and tabs allow sheet metal components to interlock, helping position them while reducing the measuring, clamping, and setup required for welding.

The best part? You don’t have to add them to your design. When they make sense for the assembly, ASM can incorporate the appropriate features during programming.

Watch our 2.5-minute SOLIDWORKS tech tip to see how parts can go from separate components to a self-fixturing assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY0YGPmKktg

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10/22/2026

Meet Cleco. Pronounced KLEE-koh.

It sounds a bit like a cartoon sidekick, which feels appropriate given its job.

Clecos temporarily locate and hold sheet metal components during fit-up, allowing our team to check alignment and orientation before welding, riveting, or another joining process makes everything permanent.

For customers, that can mean fewer assembly errors, less rework, and more repeatable fit-up. On suitable prototype and low-volume jobs, Clecos can also reduce the need for elaborate dedicated fixturing.

See how this little sidekick helps ASM build better assemblies: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/how-cleco-fasteners-ensure-a-quality-custom-sheet-metal-assembly



Related: American Welding Society

10/21/2026

Watching paint dry is the universal benchmark for boredom.

In custom fabrication, it can also be a literal part of the lead time.

Wet paint requires priming, drying, coating, and more drying. Depending on the application, a wet paint job that takes two weeks might take just one with powder coating. Powder coating also produces a durable finish that is less prone to cracking and other damage.

Wet paint remains the right choice for certain coating and corrosion-resistance requirements. But when powder coating fits the application, it turns out that “watching paint dry” was a lead-time warning all along.

See three ways to upgrade your custom fabrication: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/3-simple-ways-to-upgrade-custom-fabrications

10/20/2026

Knife skills might be important, but they won’t help much if you’re holding the wrong knife. Can you imagine trying to carve a roast with a paring knife? 🔪

The same is true in sheet metal fabrication.

Fiber lasers are fast, precise, and well suited to typical sheet metal parts with intricate features. Waterjets generally move more slowly on conventional sheet metal, but they can cut very thick or heat-sensitive materials without creating a heat-affected zone.

So, which one is better? That depends entirely on what’s on the cutting table.

Celebrate International Chefs Day with a closer look at how ASM chooses the right cutting process for the job: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/laser-cutting-vs-waterjet-cutting-sheet-metal-fabrication

10/16/2026

It’s Dictionary Day, so we have a new entry to submit:

ESTIMATOR
noun

1. Someone who can look at a drawing and see the job hiding inside it.
2. Someone who understands why a “simple bracket” isn’t always simple to quote.
3. Exactly who Approved Sheet Metal is looking to hire.

We’re looking for an experienced Sheet Metal Fabrication Estimator who can turn drawings, models, and specifications into accurate quotes that account for material, machine time, fabrication steps, finishing, and assembly.

The position is full-time and hybrid, based in Hudson, NH, with a pay range of $27–$35/hour.

Recognize yourself in the definition?

Apply here: https://www.indeed.com/job/sheet-metal-fabrication-estimator-hybrid-ecb3bb6ef5f87df6

10/14/2026

Fun fact: A finished sheet metal part can be larger than the equipment used to make it.

ASM can laser cut parts up to 120" × 60" and form parts up to 80" long. But those limits apply to the individual pieces being processed, not necessarily the final assembly.

If a larger design can be divided into manageable sections, we may be able to fabricate those sections separately and then weld or fasten them together.

Sometimes the answer to “Is it too big?” is “Only if it has to be one piece.”

See how we make room for big ideas: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/is-your-sheet-metal-part-too-big

10/13/2026

Sheet metal doesn’t look particularly impressive when it arrives at our shop.

It’s flat. That’s about it.

But after some laser cutting, forming, welding, hardware installation, and finishing, it may leave as an enclosure, bracket, chassis, heat shield, panel, or UAV component built for a military or defense application.

That’s quite the career change.

Today marks the U.S. Navy’s birthday, making it a fitting time to spotlight the precision manufacturing used across military and defense applications on land, at sea, and in the air.

Learn about ASM’s ITAR-registered military and defense fabrication capabilities: https://www.approvedsheetmetal.com/blog/sheet-metal-fabrication-military-and-defense