Steelcon expands fabrication capacity to Welland

TORONTO — Steelcon Group of Companies has filed a patent for SIN Floor Composite Flooring System and is expanding its fabrication capacity with the addition of a manufacturing facility in Welland, Ont.

The newly acquired facility will add 112,750-square-feet of manufacturing space to Steelcon’s existing four facilities in Canada and the U.S., for a combined total of more than 712,750-square-feet. Fabrication at the new facility will primarily focus on SIN Beam and joist production, as well as Steelcon’s patent-pending SIN Floor composite flooring system. It will house two of Steelcon’s four SIN Beam lines.

Steelcon’s SIN Floor composite flooring system is a complete structural panel system, comprised of three main parts: two cold-formed c-sections, a sinusoidally-corrugated deck and a poured concrete topping, states a release.

The c-sections act as beams and are continuously welded to the corrugated deck to create one homogenous steel panel. The panels arrive to site fully preassembled and are erected between other structural members and once the poured concrete topping has cured, the panel acts in composite action to take advantage of the concrete’s compressive strength and the steel’s tensile strength.

Production at the new Welland facility is set to begin in September. At peak capacity, Steelcon estimates the creation of up to 150 new manufacturing jobs.