Marlin Steel Blog

The latest manufacturing trends and news for wire baskets, wire forming, wire racks, carts, metal bracket, sheet metal, and more.

Electropolished Wire Mesh Basket with Handles

Marlin Steel works on many different basket designs each year. With each design, there are different design challenges and requirements. Today, we wanted to talk

Designing Custom Steel Baskets for Delicate Parts

Every basket design job is unique. Even when building baskets that are based on an existing design, there are usually improvements that can be easily made or other adjustments required by a change in the process for which the old baskets were used

How Cross-Training Drives Employee Engagement in Manufacturing Jobs

In the manufacturing industry, having an engaged workforce can mean the difference between completing jobs efficiently and

Voice Of America International Broadcast Interviews Marlin Steel

Recently, Aru Pande, the White House Correspondent for Voice of America (VOA), contacted Marlin Steel regarding an Associated Press story that Marlin Steel Wire Products was featured in concerning the Marlin Steel philosophy behind incentivizing

Custom Steel Baskets to Fit inside other Containers

For many of the orders that Marlin Steel processes, customers are ordering a basket that is specifically designed to fit inside of some other object, such as the cavity of an ultrasonic parts washing

Custom Wire Mesh Baskets for When Stock Baskets Aren’t Enough

For many of Marlin Steel’s customers, getting a new piece of factory equipment is an exciting event. Just picture it: the new machine hits your factory floor, your team hooks it up and begins integrating it into the parts washing/finishing process,

Pierce, Stamp, Coin & Trim Wire Forms with No Secondary Operations

Last year, we added a few tons of new automated manufacturing equipment to the Marlin Steel factory floor. From a highly unique (only five in the world) medium frequency direct current welder from Ideal Welding Systems, to a Bütfering deburring

Modifying an Existing Parts Washing Wire Basket Design to Hold Parts

Over the years, Marlin Steel’s degreed engineers have worked on many different custom parts washing wire basket designs. Some customers need an all-new basket design to be made from scratch to hold a new type of part, while others simply need to