01
Laser cutting
Amada Ventis 3015 AJ fiber laser running sheet and plate in steel, stainless and aluminum.
To 1″ mild steel · sheets to 60″ × 120″
Girard, Kansas · Established shop, measured work
A fab shop that
shows its work.
Laser cutting, forming, welding and finishing under one roof. Every number on this page is read straight off our production system — updated through the day, not written once by a marketing team.
By the numbers
Trailing 12 months · updated live
Parts delivered
160,507
Pounds of metal cut on laser
1,945,126
Parts formed on press brake
53,725
Parts welded
32,431
On-time delivery
90.3%
Quality yield
99.31%
0.69% defect rate
3,604 orders delivered
Source: KanCraft production system
Services
Six processes,
one building.
Most jobs never leave the shop. A part gets cut, formed, welded, blasted and packed without a truck ride in between — which is where the days in a lead time usually go, and where handling damage usually happens.
02
Press brake
Precision forming with per-sheet setup control, so springback on one lot never rides along into the next.
Amada HRB 8025
03
Welding
MIG and TIG fabrication and assembly, from single brackets to multi-part weldments.
Fixtured and free-hand
04
Media blasting
Surface prep that gives coatings something to hold onto — mill scale, rust and weld discoloration off before finish.
In-house · no outside handling
05
CAD design
Send a drawing, a model, a sketch on a napkin, or the broken part itself. We will draw it and confirm before cutting.
DXF · STEP · DWG · PDF
06
CNC machining
Drilling, tapping and milling for the features a laser and brake cannot put in.
Drilling · tapping · milling
Capabilities
What we
actually run.
Not a list of what the machine could theoretically do. This is every material we have cut, with the real thickness range and the largest sheet we put on the table — counted from production records.
Cutting is done on an Amada Ventis 3015 AJ fiber laser, nested in house so parts from one order share a sheet rather than being run a drawing at a time. Forming is done on an Amada HRB 8025 press brake, and parts that need it are welded, machined, blasted and finished before they are packed.
| Material | Thickness range | Largest sheet run | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild steel CS-B | 20 ga – 7 ga | 60″ × 120″ | 8,799 |
| Mild steel A36 | 1/8″ – 1″ | 60″ × 120″ | 3,572 |
| Stainless 304 | 20 ga – 1/4″ | 60″ × 120″ | 479 |
| Stainless 430 | 16 ga | 48″ × 96″ | 227 |
| Aluminum 5052 H32 | 0.081″ – 1/8″ | 60″ × 120″ | 124 |
| Carbon steel A572 Gr 50 | 10 ga – 3/4″ | 60″ × 120″ | 43 |
| Stainless 304 perforated | 18 ga | 48″ × 120″ | 28 |
| Aluminum 3003 H22 | 1/8″ | 48″ × 96″ | 19 |
| Stainless 304L | 3/16″ – 1/2″ | 48″ × 96″ | 12 |
| Aluminum 3003 H14 | 0.063″ – 1/8″ | 60″ × 120″ | 9 |
| Aluminum 6061 | 1/4″ – 1/2″ | 60″ × 120″ | 8 |
| Mild steel A1011 CS | 10 ga | 48″ × 96″ | 1 |
Surface finishes we have run
- Hot rolled
- HRPO
- Mill finish
- 2B
- #3
- #4
- #8 mirror
- Galvanized
- Galvannealed
- Floor plate
Finish matters as much as grade once a part is going to be seen. These are the ones that have actually come across the table, not a supplier catalog.
Working in something not on this list? Ask. Most of what is here started as a customer asking.
How we work
Quote to dock.
Every job is tracked through the same system the numbers above come from. That is how we can tell you where your parts are without walking out to look.
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Step 01
Send the print
Drawing, model or sample. We quote from what you send and ask before assuming.
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Step 02
Nest and schedule
Your parts get nested onto sheets and slotted against real machine capacity, not a guess.
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Step 03
Cut, form, finish
Each station logs what it produced and anything it scrapped — that is where the yield number comes from.
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Step 04
Packed and shipped
Parts are packed to a plan built for the order, with a manifest of exactly what is on the pallet.
Your representative
Your rep is on
the shop floor.
Plenty of shops will assign you a dedicated account manager. Usually that manager's actual job is to go and ask somebody else — sales quoted it, engineering programmed it, the floor ran it, accounting invoiced it, and your contact is the person relaying between them.
Every KanCraft order is assigned a single representative who oversees it end to end. The difference is where that person sits: not between you and the shop floor, but on it. Your rep quotes the part, engineers it, programs the laser and the brake that cut and form it, and follows it through production and invoicing.
First
contact
contact
Quote
Design
& DFM
& DFM
Laser
programming
programming
Brake
programming
programming
Production
updates
updates
Invoicing
& after
& after
- “Where is my order?”
- Ask your rep — who can see every part at every station, and was standing there when it ran.
- “Can this feature be cheaper?”
- Ask the person who programmed it. They already know what that bend sequence and that nest cost you.
- “There's a question on the invoice.”
- Your rep again. Same number, no ticket, no queue, no being handed off.
That is why nothing is lost in translation between your drawing and the machine — there is no translation. The judgment that read your print is the judgment that set up the job.
And it does not rest on memory. Every job, every part and every station is tracked in the system the figures on this page come from, so what your rep knows, the shop has on record.
Request a quote
Send us something
to cut.
Send a print and a quantity and you will get a real number back from a person who looked at it. If something in the design will make the part expensive or hard to hold tolerance on, we will say so before you commit to it.
- DXF, STEP, DWG, PDF — or a photo of the broken one
- Prototype runs and production lots both welcome
- A response from a person by the next business day
- We will tell you if we are not the right shop for it