Steel fabrication · Sudbury, Ontario · Family owned since 1971

Cut it. Weld it. Raise it.

C & A Steel is a family owned fabricator on Kelly Lake Road, at it since 1971. A 36,000 square foot plant, CNC equipment driven straight from the drawing office, and the crew that put more than 1,000 tonnes of steel into the 2021 Canada Games Park. No job is too large or too small.

A welder in a blue jacket behind the mask, the arc lighting up the smoke and throwing sparks over the workpiece
Arc time in the Kelly Lake Road shop Scroll

1971

Family owned and operated since

36,000

Square feet of fabrication plant on Kelly Lake Road

1,000+ tonnes

Of steel in the 2021 Canada Games Park

CWB certified

And a CISC and SCA member

Our services

Eight trades. One shop floor.

Complete detailing, engineering and fabricating services — from the design of intricate steel work to the erection of large or small precision parts. Everything below has its own page, with the shop's own photos.

Red-primed structural steel framing erected high above the city, a tower crane behind it

Fabrication and Erection

Structural steel fabricated in the plant and erected on site — the core of the shop since 1971.

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Large rolled plate cylinders lined up across the shop floor

Custom Plate Work

Rolled, formed and welded plate: cylinders, ducts, hoppers and the one-off shapes in between.

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A custom yellow handling stand fabricated in the shop, holding a large equipment tire

Miscellaneous Metals

Hoppers, decking, shafts, conveyor troughs — the steel between the big pieces.

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A curved steel stair taking shape in the shop, a fitter sitting at the top of the stringer

Stairs and Handrails

Straight runs, switchbacks, spirals — and the railings that go with them.

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Freshly coated beams lined up in the paint shop

Surface Prep and Coatings

Primed and finish-coated in the shop, so the steel goes up ready.

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Engineering and Detailing

Complete detailing and engineering in-house — the drawings feed the CNC directly.

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A long dark steel truss on the shop floor, under the overhead crane

Steel Joists and Trusses

Joists, trusses and deck — the spans that carried the Canada Games Park.

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A steel clock tower for the Commerce Center standing in the snow, its frame in plain view

Architectural Metals

Steel that gets looked at — every weld on show.

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The whole rack

Eight services, one roof.

Every page carries the shop's own photos of that trade — no borrowed steel.

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Canada Games Park · Niagara region, 2021

More than 1,000 tonnes.

The Canada Games Park went up in Thorold for a national games. The joists, trusses, deck and structural steel came out of our shop on Kelly Lake Road — more than 1,000 tonnes of it. The kind of contract that usually lands with firms twenty times our size.

Project
Canada Games Park — Thorold, Niagara region
Year
Built for the 2021 Canada Games
Scope
Joists, trusses, deck and structural steel
Tonnage
More than 1,000 tonnes, fabricated in Sudbury

Where our steel goes

Sudbury is a mining town, but the shop has never been fussy about the industry. Projects completed in all six.

Automotive Mining Commercial Residential Pulp and Paper Industrial

About us

The same family since 1971.

Hard work, dedication and integrity — the words the shop was built on. The second generation runs it the same way, out of the same trade: steel, done right, on time.

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Galvanized conveyor structure climbing against a blue sky at a mine site
Close on the welding mask, lit blue by the arc
Our steel in service at a mine site, and the arc that put it together.

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No matter what your steel fabricating needs, we have the cost-effective answer. For innovative solutions to your structural steel challenges, call C & A Steel (1983) Ltd.

The plant
1078 Kelly Lake Road
Sudbury, ON P3E 5P4
Fax
(705) 675-2739
Hiring
Qualified tradespeople — see Employment