OSSFA: A Trade Association for Ontario Structural Steel Fabricators

The Ontario Structural Steel Fabricators Association (OSSFA) represents 40 fabricator and supplier members, employing over 15,000 people across Ontario. OSSFA has been operating for 4 years, working to help represent the needs of today’s structural steel fabricators in Ontario.

OSSFA helps inform and educate our industry and industry partners and creates a better approach to working within the structural steel marketplace. First and foremost, our members want to meet their clients’ expectations. That begins with clearly understanding budgets and project scheduling. With our best practices, as defined in our OSSFA Form 11.3 (this document can be downloaded from our website), our membership has laid out the specific steps we need to present to the entire project team to work more effectively to achieve a positive outcome.

OSSFA members are ready to tackle your next Section 5 structural steel project. Today, our membership has invested in the latest CNC fabrication, plasma, laser, water cutting and robotic technologies as well as advancements in 3-D steel detailing and engineering programs to service our clients. Please see the list of our members across Ontario below.

We recently shared the current state of steel material availability and price increases with our friends at ACEC Ontario. We are all receiving more calls from engineers asking for help and information on structural steel. We have told them what products we can and can’t receive from the mills (that sometimes changes weekly), and to allow flexible options in designing roof and floor systems to get the project built quicker. Mills are telling some suppliers to send them a blank purchase order: they will put you in the queue and provide a final delivery date and final cost later. How can our members perform within these scenarios? The fact is they can’t. Today’s market presents a serious challenge, but our members (suppliers and fabricators) are doing their very best to find solutions, source materials, fabricate to challenging schedules and get the steel to site. It has not been easy, but by working together everything is possible. To see the full OSSFA Sponsored Content article on the Daily Commercial News website, please visit: https://bit.ly/3Ck4isN

This content is sponsored by OSSFA in collaboration with ConstructConnect Media. To learn more about OSSFA, please visit: https://ossfa.com/