Sheet Metal Offcut Management: The Hidden Cost Most Shops Ignore
Most laser cutting and sheet metal fabrication shops lose between 8% and 12% of their annual material spend to unmanaged offcuts — steel remnants that are stacked in a corner, mislabeled or unlabeled, and eventually scrapped at a fraction of purchase price. At $680 per ton for hot-rolled steel, a shop processing 800 tons per […]