Plate Cutting Services

Madden Bolt cuts steel plate to tight tolerances for custom components, base plates, sole plates, anchor plates, gussets, stiffeners, and brackets cut to profile and size. Cutting feeds our own fabrication and hot-dip galvanizing line, so a plate gets cut, drilled, welded, and galvanized in-house and ships as a finished part. One source start to finish means lead times that come in ahead of the pack. AISC certified, family-owned since 1988.

Certified Fabrication
AISC Certified Fabricator seal
AWS Certified Welding Fabricator (CWF) seal

What Plate Cutting Covers

Plate cutting takes carbon-steel plate down to a precise profile and size (squares, rectangles, rings, gussets, and complex custom shapes) so the part can be drilled, welded, and assembled into a finished component. We treat it as the first step of fabrication, not a service that stands on its own. Cut plate feeds straight into the same Houston shop that drills, welds, and hot-dip galvanizes it.

Plate Components We Cut

Cut plate is the flat steel at the heart of most fabricated assemblies. The parts we cut most often:

  • Base plates, column and equipment base plates cut to size and bolt pattern
  • Sole plates & leveling plates, load-bearing plates for equipment and structural mounting
  • Anchor plates, plates for embed and anchor-bolt assemblies
  • Gussets & stiffeners, reinforcing plate that stiffens welded connections
  • Brackets & custom profiles, complex shapes cut to the drawing
  • Templates, custom-cut steel patterns that replicate hole locations per the drawing

These parts feed straight into our custom steel fabrication and steel embeds, where they come out the other side as finished, galvanized assemblies, and never leave the shop to do it.

Pallets of finished custom-cut plate orders staged for shipment in the Madden Bolt yard

Cut, Fabricated, and Galvanized In-House

Buy cut plate from one vendor, weld at another, galvanize at a third, and every hand-off is one more place for the job to stall, plus freight and split accountability on top of it. We collapse that chain. Plate cutting, fabrication, and hot-dip galvanizing all happen here, under one quality team. A plate gets cut to profile, drilled and welded into its assembly, then galvanized on the same property, and ships as a finished, coated, traceable part.

We cut carbon steel to whatever grade and dimensions your drawing calls out, A36 for general work, A572 Grade 50 where you need the higher strength. Once a part’s fabricated, it’s hot-dip galvanized in-house per ASTM A123. Read up on our in-house hot-dip galvanizing services, or pair plate parts with our custom anchor bolts to round out the connection.

Stacks of custom cut steel plates and ring flanges with bolt holes, cut at Madden Bolt.

AISC Certified Quality & Full Traceability

We’re an AISC certified fabricator with a Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) on staff. Cut plate stays traceable the whole way through, backed by mill test reports (MTRs). From the first cut to final galvanizing, one quality team signs off on every lot. See our full quality and safety standards.

Plate Cutting FAQs

It’s cutting carbon-steel plate to a precise profile and size (squares, rectangles, rings, gussets, and complex shapes) so the part can be drilled, welded, and assembled into a finished component. For us it’s the first step of fabrication, not a standalone job: cut plate feeds straight into the same shop that drills, welds, and galvanizes it.

Base plates, sole plates, leveling plates, anchor plates, gussets, stiffeners, brackets, and custom profiles, the flat parts that go into embeds, weldments, and structural assemblies. Since cutting feeds our own fabrication line, that cut plate turns into a finished, galvanized part without ever leaving the building.

Buy cut plate from one vendor, weld at another, galvanize at a third, and you’ve added freight, schedule risk, and three outfits to chase if something’s off. We do all three in-house, so a plate gets cut, fabricated, and hot-dip galvanized in-house and one QC team. Keeping it in-house is exactly why our lead times come in ahead of the pack.

We cut carbon steel (A36 for general work and A572 Grade 50 where higher strength is specified) to the grade and dimensions your drawing calls out. Cut plate then moves into fabrication for drilling, welding, and finishing as required.

Yes. Once they’re fabricated, plate components get hot-dip galvanized in-house per ASTM A123, on the same property. A cut, drilled, and welded plate part ships fully coated and traceable, with no trip to an outside galvanizer.

Send us your plate drawing or a DXF and we’ll quote it. Request a quote online or call the Houston shop at 713.939.9999. Standard, rush, and expedited orders are all fine.

Get Plate Cutting Quoted, Fast

Send us a plate drawing or DXF. We run standard, rush, and expedited orders, and we get them out the door fast.