Metal Enclosures

TLDR: When the same facility fabricates, welds, coats, and cures a large enclosure or frame, parts stop waiting on outside vendors. Lead times shrink, handling damage and freight drop, and corrosion protection becomes easier to control and verify. Sintel Inc. powder coats large parts up to 10 feet wide, 10 feet high, and 20 feet long (14x14x53), directly from its welding cells and manufacturing lines. Large enclosures are where finishing problems get expensive. An oversized f

TL;DR: The fastest way to cut lead time and cost on large metal enclosures is to apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) before you freeze the design. Reduce part count and weld content, standardize materials and hardware, design frames to self-fixture, plan for powder coat and shipping from day one, and work with a fabricator that can weld, form, coat, and assemble under one roof. These choices matter most when enclosure volumes move from tens of units to thousands. For OEMs bu

TLDR: Full vertical integration means Sintel welds the frame, forms the sheet metal, builds the support structures, powder coats, and assembles every enclosure under one roof in Spring Lake, Michigan. That single-facility model removes vendor handoffs, protects quality for large enclosures and frames, and supports a capacity of 4,000+ enclosures per year for mission-critical and electrification infrastructure. You can source the engine. What is much harder is finding a partne

TDLR; The Challenge: Mission-critical and electrification infrastructure is moving outdoors, where the enclosure has to do the job a building used to do. The Solution: Engineer safety into the frame first, then the large enclosure, the seals, the thermal path, and the finish. Design all of it so it can be repeated at volume. Why Sintel: Frames, sheet metal, powder coating, and assembly in one dedicated enclosure facility, with 40+ years of metal fabrication experience AI, hig

TL;DR / Quick Summary The Challenge: Mission-critical and electrification infrastructure has to be deployed faster than site-built construction allows, and every modular data center or e-house depends on one thing being right first: the enclosure. The Solution: Start with the frame. A load-rated, precisely welded frame turns a large enclosure into a repeatable product that can be lifted, shipped, and installed without rework, then produced at volume. Why Sintel: Large-scale e

TL;DR: The Challenge: High-megawatt power generators produce extreme noise levels (up to 110+ dBA) and massive thermal loads. Balancing aggressive sound suppression with high-CFM airflow requires engineering precise structural frames, acoustic baffles, and heat dissipation pathways without choking the engine intake. However, sourcing durable chassis, rigid structural frames, and large enclosures at volumes of thousands of units per year remains a massive manufacturing bottlen

A generator is only as reliable as the enclosure protecting it. When a facility loses utility power, the backup system has to start, run, and keep running, often for hours at a stretch. The engine, alternator, controls, and fuel system inside that enclosure cannot afford to be compromised by a frame that flexes under wind load or succumbs to continuous engine vibration. For operators of mission-critical systems, from data centers to utility-scale power sites, the enclosure is

TL;DR The Challenge: A custom metal enclosure must get the vendor selection, structural design, and finish right before manufacturing starts, or costly rework follows once tooling is in place. The Solution: Partner with a vendor with the capacity, scale, and multi-metal capability to handle large enclosures across thousands of parts, validate the design as a prototype, and reproduce it at volume. Why Sintel: 40+ years of experience, full vertical integration from structural f