A CWB-certified shop for structural and miscellaneous steel, aluminum and stainless.
One laser-cut bracket or a million-dollar structural package: the same shop quotes both. A laser and a plasma table, a scanner and printers, a mill and a lathe, eight welding bays and a drafting room under one roof, and drawings that come back fast. High-mix work is the normal day.
Since 2018 · 42 Wilstead Dr, Newmarket ON L3Y 4T9 · Monday to Friday, 06:00 to 15:30 · 416 560 9330
CWB Certified · CSA W47.1 Div 2valid to Jun 2027 · CSA W47.2 Div 2valid to Apr 2027
“I have worked very closely with Ken and his team over the last five years. His quality of work and in field welding repairs are top...”
A DXF, a shape from the catalog, or a photo of a hand sketch — priced in seconds, material, cutting and bends line by line. Pricing is free and needs no sign-in. Buying does: sign in with Google and check out without leaving this page.
Thicker than the table, or a material not on it: send the file anyway and a person prices it.
What we build
Six kinds of work that come through the door most weeks. Photographs from the floor.
Tunnelling and HDD tooling
Reamers and hole openers, cutting shoes, tunnel seals, jacking frames, tipping buckets and manway ladders. Built to your drawing, or reverse-engineered from the worn one.
HDD reamers and hole openers, 5 to 44 in
MTBM jacking frames, pipe skis and tunnel seals
Precast segment ring cutting shoes
Crane-operated tipping buckets, 1/3 to 2 yd
Manway ladder systems
Structural steel
Beams, columns, canopies and racking structures, fabricated in the shop and set on site by an ironworker crew. Galvanized or painted, with the shop drawings and piece marks the erector needs.
Rooftop solar racking and carport canopies
Beams, columns, bracing and connections
Modular enclosures to 30 ft high
Site erection and field welding
Stairs, railings, platforms and ladders
Miscellaneous metals for buildings and plants: grating platforms, guardrail, caged ladders, spiral and straight stairs, brackets and frames. Measured on site when there is no drawing.
Straight and spiral stairs
Guardrail, handrail and gates
Grating platforms, catwalks and caged ladders
Brackets, frames and embeds
Equipment stands and lifting tooling
Component stands, rebuild cradles, spreader bars and rigging racks for heavy-equipment shops. Designed here from the component when there is no drawing, painted, delivered on the flatbed.
Engine and component stands
Spreader bars and lifting frames
Rigging and storage racks
Excavator attachments and boring bars
Cut parts and plate work
Laser and plasma cut parts from your DXF, flat or formed, in mild steel, stainless and aluminum. Priced online, picked up or delivered.
Worn cutters, cracked frames, bucket teeth and wear plates. Hardfaced or rebuilt in the shop, or welded on your site by the shop's own welders.
Hardfacing on cutters, centralizers and wear parts
Bucket, attachment and frame repairs
Cast iron repairs and arc gouging
Field welding on your site
Seam welding with Gullco Moggy CarriageA boring bar visits the dentistPrecast segment ring shaft picker44" OD 3.5 IF HDD ReamerAVN 1200 Tunnel sealStainless seismic anchor plates
10,000 sq ft at 42 Wilstead Dr. What is on the floor, and what each machine takes.
Machine
What it does
Capacity
CNC plasma table5 x 10 ft bed, 200 A
Plate parts, holes and profiles straight from the DXF.
1½ in mild steel, 1 in aluminum, 1 in stainless
Fibre laser commissioningFlexCutter 4020, 6 kW, 4 x 2 m bed
Fine-kerf cut parts in sheet and plate.
Stainless to ⅜ in, aluminum to ¼ in
Tube laser axis commissioningRotary attachment on the fibre laser
Holes, slots and copes in tube and pipe.
Automatic bandsawHyd-Mech H18A, plus two mitre saws
Cut-to-length sections, square or mitred, bundled by piece mark.
18 x 18 in
Press brake and rolls
Bending and rolling: formed plate, brackets, rolled sections and rings.
Welding baysEight Lincoln machines, Power MIG 250 to 600 A
MIG, flux core, stick and TIG in mild steel, stainless and aluminum. Positioners and an automatic welding trolley for long seams.
Laser welder commissioningRayWeld 2 kW handheld
Low-heat welds on thin stainless and aluminum.
Jig tables18 tables, 4 x 8 ft
Bolt together into one flat surface for platforms and frames.
Mill and lathe
Bores, faces, pins and bushings on parts made here.
3D scannerRevopoint Metro Y
Reverse engineering: scan the worn part, model it, make a new one.
3D printers
Fit checks, jigs and patterns before any steel is cut.
LiftingThree forklifts, a Broderson carry-deck crane, a crane truck
Turn, set and load heavy weldments; deliver on the crane truck.
Welding under CWB certification to CSA W47.1 Div 2 and CSA W47.2 Div 2: MIG, flux core and stick in mild steel, stainless and aluminum. Welded to CSA W59.
Commissioning: installed and being proven out, not yet quoted as a production process. Ask before planning a job around it.
Send us a job
Six ways in. Every one of them lands on a fabricator's desk.
Pricing a DXF or a material list needs no account. Buying, and keeping quotes and drawings in one place, does: sign in with Google or an email address.
What happens next
A person reads it. A fabricator, not a form. Questions about material, finish and quantity come back before the price does.
A written quote. Price, lead time and what is included: material, cutting, welding, paint, delivery.
Drawings when the job needs them. Shop drawings from SolidWorks or AutoCAD for approval, revised until they are signed off.
Build, check, deliver. Fit-up and weld inspection in the shop; piece marks, weld maps and mill certificates with the job when specified. Delivered in York Region and the GTA, or picked up at 42 Wilstead Dr.
Have a material list?
Drop the spreadsheet, the PDF or a photo of the paper and get rack prices back line by line. Parsing and pricing are free and need no sign-in. Buying does: confirm each line we read, sign in, and it lands in your cart. Anything we cannot price off the rack goes to a person who calls you back.
Material only, before HST; prices move with the mill. Sheet and plate by the square foot, structural by the foot. The per-pound figure is the price divided by the published weight, for comparison. Delivery in 48 hours, 24 hours at +50% on stock lengths, or pickup at 42 Wilstead Dr; cut-to-length and rush-cut rates, delivery area and minimum are confirmed at checkout.
Modeled in SolidWorks, checked with FEA, drawn for the shop
Send a sketch and get shop drawings back, or draw it yourself in SteelForge, the online 3D designer: real AISC profiles, welds, holes and copes, priced as you build.
Shop drawings
From your sketch or ours; weld maps and piece marks on the sheets.
Analysis
Modeled in SolidWorks and checked with FEA when a frame carries load.
SteelForge
Real AISC profiles in the browser, priced as you build. Assemblies, welds, holes, copes.
Reverse engineering
No drawing? The worn part is scanned on a Revopoint Metro Y, modelled, and made again.
3D printing
Printed fit checks, jigs and patterns before any steel is cut.
Sealed drawings
Stamped by a consulting engineer when a code requires it. Design and detailing happen here; the seal is a separate scope.
Each additional test plate $50 · Stainless steel $50 · Aluminum $50. Prices are before HST (13%). A renewal is a check test within 90 days of the two-year expiry on a current ticket.
Company
STEADY STEEL INC · 42 WILSTEAD
What customers say
“Working with Ken and the team at Steady Steel has been a genuinely refreshing experience. Their integrity, skill, and commitment to doing things right—no matter the challenge—have consistently impressed me. I trust them completely and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them for any fabrication project”
“Steady Steel is our go to supplier for custom steel and aluminum pieces. Not only do they deliver top notch products, but also will work with us to ensure the product is designed specifically for our application. They never have failed to get us what we need on time and on budget!”
“Since meeting Ken, I have always been impressed with he ability to design and build the jobs that come across his table. Quality and honesty are at the top of his game. I would have no issues recommending him for any job, for any of my customers, and in fact I have, and they have started to build a long relationship where both sides are happy to have found each other!”
“Steady Steel assisted our project with Value Engineering, Detail Review and Design Assist. Their team were professional and helped beyond their scope, would highly recommend.”
Who runs it
Ken MacDermid, Red Seal ironworker, owns Steady Steel and has since 2018. On the floor most days, and the one who answers the phone. The crew is small enough that the person who quoted the job is on the shop floor while it is built.