Heat treating services perform thermal treatments to modify the properties of metals and metal alloys. Common processes include annealing, austempering, case hardening, conventional hardening, homogenizing, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), martempering, normalizing, precipitation hardening, shot peening, solution treating, spheroidizing, stabilizing, and stress relieving

Materials processing services providers manufacture mechanically or thermally process metals, ceramics, polymers, glasses or other materials on a contract basis.

Metal working lubricants, coolants and fluids are specialized coatings and carriers for metal forming, metal cutting, lapping, polishing, and grinding applications.

Wire manufacturing services providers focus on drawing wire from raw wire stock to a specified size, or on twisting wire into cables.

Powder metal services use heat and pressure to form precision parts and shapes from ferrous and nonferrous metals

Tube bending and pipe bending services produce finished parts from tubes and pipes. They perform processes such as CNC bending, hydroforming, mandrel bending, ram bending, roll ending, heat bending, and sand packing

Synthetic oils, greases and lubricants are based on synthetic compounds such as silicone, polyglycol, esters, digesters, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and mixtures of synthetic fluids and water. 

Specialty coating and finishing services perform specialized or proprietary coating and finishing processes.

Stamping services use punches and dies to create three-dimensional parts and add surface definition such as lettering to flat-sheet materials.

Aluminum extrusion services providers specialize in extruding aluminum and aluminum alloys into custom and standard profiles and shapes.

Wire assembly fabrication services produce parts by bending and welding sections of wire. They fabricate wire baskets and other material handling components such as wire grids, guards, grates and racks.

Glass fabrication services is the manufacturing of glass parts and assemblies using blowing, casting, extrusion, drawing, pressing, heat shrinking or other fabrication processes.  

Tube fabrication services perform end-services such as notching, slotting, and piercing. They do not manufacture pipes or tubes.

Machine shop services use machinery or equipment to perform custom removal of material to fabricate a finished part.

Extrusion includes the manufacture of lengths of cross-sectional shapes and profiles.  Extruded products are available in a wide variety of materials and material combinations.