New metal fabricator in Wesson

Wesson News

      Back in 2018, Travis Beasley and John Wade started B&W Fabrications, LLC in a back building with dirt floors on Browns Well Road near the Sylvarena Road truck stop to make extra money fabricating small metal parts for transformers manufactured by Hitachi Energy at Crystal Springs.

      Last year, B&W started operating in half of the 55,000 square foot Steel Outdoors manufacturing building on Highway 51 in Wesson, where Beasley and Wade now serve four major clients with seven employees as president and vice president of a growing metal fabricating company.

      It’s a story of quality and dependability, Beasley says.

      “When we do work for someone, we will keep going back to the job until the client is satisfied,” says Beasley.  “When someone comes to us with a problem, we respond readily with a solution.”

      Customers discovered B&W, but not overnight.

      “It was slow-going over our first four years,” Beasley recalls.  “We worked at other jobs and did B&W work at night and our spare time.”

      Three years ago, Beasley and Wade realized they had something more than a hobby that gave them extra spending money when they had to hire their first employee.  “Our original goal was to grow employment to four workers, but the calls and inquiries continued to increase, and we currently have a seven-person workforce,” says Beasley.

      Beasley says B&W’s work is wide in scope, beginning with design to address varied problems followed by fabricating metals – cutting, grinding, welding – to create a product that solves the problems.  In the early days, B&W produced small equipment to solve small problems, with bigger projects, increasingly, becoming the thrust of the company’s work.

Early products were tables, while more recently they have produced and installed roof beams for HVAC units and industrial pallet racks.  B&W continues to produce parts for Hitachi transformers and has add roofing product line for buildings that Beasley says has a “nice look” vis a vis competitive product lines.

In addition to Hitachi Energy, B&W is now serving DG Foods, Bar S and Tennessee Rack.  These companies also different locations with different problems, creating more work for B&W.  Its Hitachi work has expanded to Richland, Mississippi, from Crystal Springs, and DG Foods Louisiana facility represents new growth potential.

B&W started in 18 x 25-foot building with dirt floors on Browns Well Road, moved to 50 x 60-foot building there that was too small it relocated to the building and took over the 27,000 square feet at the Wesson location.

At Wesson, B&W has modern a machine shop where it is installing a new state-of-the-art laser cutting machine, mill and press brake.