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Manufacturing facilities

A manufacturing building should be engineered around your process, not a pre-set template. Portex frames are conventional steel, custom engineered for your project, so the layout, the clear height and the room to expand follow what happens on your floor. They are engineered, detailed and fabricated by our team in Strathroy, Ontario.

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The finished interior of a large industrial building: a high open-web joist roof on steel columns, with a production line being set up on the floor.
Skyreach: 140,000 sq ft industrial building, 375 tonnes of structural steel.

Typical uses

  • Manufacturing facilities

Every Portex building is custom engineered, so if your project is not listed here, ask us about it.

Why Portex for manufacturing buildings

  • Flexible layouts

    Flexible layouts with fewer interior columns, so the floor can be planned around your equipment and workflow.

  • Custom clear heights

    Building heights are set to suit your needs rather than a manufacturer’s standard sizes.

  • Room for cranes and heavy loads

    Conventional steel and custom engineering make it easier to build in cranes, mezzanines and heavy loads.

  • Expansion-ready

    Conventional connections make future changes and expansions simpler as your operation grows.

Planning a manufacturing building

A quote starts with what the building has to do. Rough answers are fine; these are the details our estimating team will ask about.

The guide Planning your steel building lists the rest.

  • What happens on the floor: the process, the equipment and how material moves
  • Cranes, mezzanines or heavy loads to design in
  • The clear height you need inside
  • Where interior columns can and cannot go
  • Plans to expand later

Projects from our shop

Steel-frame buildings in this area whose structural steel was fabricated in our Strathroy shop.

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Engineered and fabricated in Strathroy

Portex buildings are engineered, detailed and fabricated by our team in Strathroy, Ontario. One coordinated team takes your project through all six steps: consult, design and engineering, detailing, fabrication, delivery, and erection and support.

Planning a manufacturing building?

Tell us what you need to build. Our team will help with early budgeting and planning and prepare an estimate.

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