Sheet Metal Fabrication for Agriculture
K-Display provides sheet metal fabrication for agricultural equipment OEMs. We build the guards, shrouds, hoppers, enclosures, and brackets that go onto planters, feed systems, grain handling, and livestock equipment, to the OEM's drawings and finish specification.
How we contribute
Farm and farmstead machines are built from heavy plate and castings where the load is, and from formed sheet metal everywhere else. The belt guard, the auger shield, the seed hopper, the control box, and the bracket that holds a sensor are light-gauge parts an equipment OEM releases as hundreds of separate drawings.
K-Display's sheet metal fabrication for agriculture covers those parts: laser cutting, forming, welding, powder coating, hardware installation, and assembly, delivered as loose parts or subassemblies for the OEM's line. Ground-engaging tools, booms, and heavy-plate structures belong with a plate shop. The light-gauge metal around them is our work.
What we make for agriculture
Light-gauge part families for field and farmstead equipment.
- Power-transmission guards and shields
- Belt, chain, sprocket, and PTO guards formed from steel, with the mounting tabs, hinge points, and clearances the OEM's guarding design calls for.
- Shrouds, covers, and access panels
- Engine and drive covers, hood panels, and removable access panels with latches and hinges installed.
- Hoppers, chutes, and feed pans
- Formed and welded hoppers, transitions, and pans for seed, feed, and grain, with seams welded and edges finished to the drawing.
- Control and electrical enclosures
- Boxes for monitors, controllers, and power on field machines and barn systems, with sealed entries and mounting panels arranged to the electrical layout.
- Mounting brackets and weldments
- Sensor mounts, hose and harness brackets, and welded support frames that bolt to the machine's structure.
- Livestock and grow-facility fixtures
- Feeder bodies, gates, and shelving for barns and greenhouses, in galvanized or stainless where the specification calls for it.
What agriculture jobs require
The inputs an equipment OEM sends with the drawings.
- Guarding to the machine's safety design
- OSHA's farm-equipment rule requires guards at nip points and on PTO shafts, and ISO 4254-1 sets strength requirements for guards and barriers. The OEM's design carries those requirements. We build the guard to the drawing, including the rule's call for guards free of burrs and sharp edges.
- Corrosion resistance for the environment
- Fertilizer, manure, washdown, and weather attack both finish and substrate. Specify galvanized, stainless, or powder-coated steel and the pretreatment the service life needs.
- Wear where material flows
- Hoppers, chutes, and pans carry abrasive seed, grain, and feed. Call out the material grade and thickness where the drawing expects wear, and whether a liner is a separate part.
- Seasonal volume and model-year revisions
- Equipment OEMs build to a season. Tell us the release schedule and which parts carry over unchanged, so fixtures and setups are ready when the model-year order lands.
- Approval documents
- First-article reports, PPAP submissions, and material certifications are common requests on equipment programs. State what the launch needs so the first shipment carries the right paperwork.
How the work runs
Three steps from drawing release to parts at the line.
Review the guarding and finish notes
We check the drawing, the mating machine geometry, and the finish and hardware notes so guards, covers, and enclosures fit at the OEM's line.
Build in batches to the season
Cutting, forming, welding, and powder coating run in the batch sizes the release schedule sets, with fixtures held for repeat model-year orders.
Assemble and pack for the line
Hinges, latches, and hardware are installed, and parts ship kitted by machine or bulk-packed as the OEM specifies.