Aerospace & Defense
Great Lakes Specialty Metals serves fabricators and manufacturers nationwide. With our flexibility and focus on customer service, we ensure the aerospace and defense industries have what they need, when they need it.
Industries Served
At Great Lakes Specialty Metals, we proudly serve a broad clientele across Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin, and nationwide, offering premium-grade specialty metal solutions meticulously crafted to fulfill diverse manufacturing requirements.
Food & Beverage
A valued quality of stainless steel is its non-permeability. This makes it easy to clean and sanitize, which is necessary for companies in the food manufacturing industry.
Energy
At Great Lakes Specialty Metals, we offer a variety of specialty metal products for the energy industry. With an expansive selection of products plus value-added services, we deliver high-quality materials tailored to your applications.
Automotive & Marine
Our dedicated team at Great Lakes Specialty Metals understands that exceptional service and on-time delivery are important, so let us help solidify your supply chain.
Other Industries Served
Our extensive roster of satisfied customers includes manufacturers, OEMs, and fabricators operating within a wide array of industries, encompassing:
- Aerospace & Defense: From precision components to structural elements, we supply specialty metals vital for aerospace and defense applications, ensuring reliability and performance under extreme conditions.
- Automotive & Transportation: Catering to the automotive sector, our specialty metal products contribute to the production of durable and high-performance automotive parts, enhancing vehicle safety and efficiency.
- Marine: In the maritime industry, our corrosion-resistant specialty metals play a crucial role in building resilient marine structures, vessels, and equipment capable of withstanding harsh marine environments.
- Food and Beverage: We provide specialty metal solutions essential for food processing equipment, ensuring hygienic and efficient food production processes while meeting stringent regulatory standards.
- Medical & Dental: Our precision-crafted specialty metals support the medical and dental sectors by facilitating the production of surgical instruments, implants, and diagnostic equipment, fostering advancements in healthcare.
- Energy & Power Generation: Supporting the energy industry, our specialty metals are utilized in power generation equipment, turbines, and renewable energy infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency in energy production.
- Oil & Gas: We supply specialty metals crucial for oil and gas exploration, production, and refining operations, offering corrosion-resistant materials engineered to withstand harsh operating conditions.
- Valves & Fittings: Our specialty metals are integral to the manufacturing of valves, fittings, and fluid handling systems across various industries, ensuring leak-proof and reliable fluid control solutions.
- Screw Machining & Fasteners: We provide specialty metal products ideal for screw machining and fastener applications, offering high-strength and corrosion-resistant materials essential for secure and durable assemblies.
- General Machining: Serving the general machining industry, our specialty metals are utilized in a wide range of machining applications, offering superior machinability, strength, and dimensional stability.
At Great Lakes Specialty Metals, we are committed to delivering exceptional quality and reliability in every specialty metal product we supply, empowering our customers to achieve their manufacturing objectives with confidence and efficiency.
Quick Metal Conversion Tool
Easily convert steel measurements and estimate weight with our Conversion & Weight Calculator.
saw cutting, cut to size plate, sheared to size sheet and more
We Offer a Variety of Quality Production Cutting Services
Material Sourcing Experts
We stock hundreds of items across a variety of metals, grades and shapes. If we don’t have it, we have the team and resources you need to source material from around the world.
Our Metal Shapes
In our extensive inventory we carry rounds, flats, hexes, squares, angles (equal and unequal leg), sheet (both 2B and #4 polished), pipe, plate and all varieties of tubing (round, square and rectangular). If not in stock, we can locate it for you.
