About the shop
Steady Steel Inc is a steel fabrication shop at 42 Wilstead Dr in Newmarket, Ontario. It has been running since 2018, independently owned, and it works across York Region and the Greater Toronto Area — structural and miscellaneous steel, aluminum and stainless, designed, cut, welded and installed.
What is in the building
Cutting, forming, welding and detailing are all under one roof in Newmarket, which is the reason a job with some of each in it does not move between shops and pick up a week doing it.
- CNC plasma table (5 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 (FlexCutter 4020, 6 kW, 4 x 2 m bed) — Fine-kerf cut parts in sheet and plate. 1 in mild steel, ½ in stainless, ½ in aluminum.
- Tube laser axis (Rotary attachment on the fibre laser) — Holes, slots and copes in tube and pipe. Square tube to 8 x 8 in, ¼ in wall.
- Automatic bandsaw (Hyd-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 bays (Eight 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 (RayWeld 2 kW handheld) — Low-heat welds on sheet and light plate. 24 ga to ¼ in, mild steel, stainless and aluminum.
- Jig tables (18 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 scanner (Revopoint 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.
- Lifting (Three forklifts, a Broderson carry-deck crane, a crane truck) — Turn, set and load heavy weldments; deliver on the crane truck.
- The racks — steel, aluminum and stainless in stock and priced online, sold by the size and cut to length.
What we build
Lintels, stairs, railings, frames, dunnage, embeds and anchors. Shop-welded assemblies that go out on a truck, and non-pressure attachments bolted to customer equipment. Crews install on site, and welding and repair go into the field on machines that cannot come off it.
Work arrives as a drawing, a sketch, a DXF, a spreadsheet or a photograph of a list on paper. All five are normal. Anything the software cannot price with confidence goes to a person who calls back.
Drawing and design
Parts are modelled in SolidWorks and checked with FEA where it matters, then drawn for the shop with weld maps and piece marks on the sheets. Customers who would rather draw it themselves can use SteelForge, the shop's browser-based 3D steel designer — real AISC profiles, welds, holes and copes, priced as you build, with DXF and STEP out of the same model. It is free and needs no account.
What the shop does not carry is in-house weldment design engineering. Where a code requires a professional engineer to seal a design, that engineering is supplied by the customer or arranged as a separate scope, and we say so when we see it.
Certification
Steady Steel Inc is certified by the Canadian Welding Bureau. A certified shop welds to qualified procedures, with qualified welders, under CWB supervision, and is audited for it. The Letters of Validation in force today:
- CSA W47.1 Div 2 — valid to June 2027
- CSA W47.2 Div 2 — valid to April 2027
Division 2 covers the welding, not weldment design engineering. These letters and their expiry dates are published here and are the authoritative statement of what the shop holds.
Who runs it
Ken MacDermid owns Steady Steel and has run it since 2018. He is on the shop floor and he answers the phone, which is the short version of why quoting here tends to be a conversation about the drawing rather than a form. Reach him at 416 560 9330 or orders@steadysteel.org.
Where and when
42 Wilstead Dr, Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 4T9. The shop runs Monday to Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Eastern time, and pickup is during those hours. Delivery goes out across York Region, the Greater Toronto Area and Simcoe County.