LGS/CFS profiles
Cold-formed studs, tracks, and hat channels, CNC-cut, punched, marked, and labeled.
±0.5 mmASTM A1003
LGS/CFS profiles from 0.85 to 2.5 mm →
Centro Industrial PEB · Las Mañanitas
CNC manufacturing plant in Panama City
NewCon Steel® manufactures its profiles at the group's CNC plant, which has been in operation since 2018 at Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City. Its CNC cold-forming lines cut, punch, mark, and label every profile to a ±0.5 mm (±0.02 in) tolerance, and every piece can be traced back to the originating steel lot.
Coated coil goes in at one end, and a finished structural member comes out at the other. This page walks the line step by step, so you can see how your steel is made before you issue a purchase order.
±0.5mmManufacturing dimensional tolerance
0.85–2.5mmSheet thickness range (0.033–0.098 in)
275g/m²Zn-Al-Mg coating, total across both faces (0.90 oz/ft²)
20,000m²/monthProduction capacity, CFS structure (about 215,000 sq ft/month); not a lead time
The process
Coil to finished member, on a single line
Coated coil enters the mill and leaves as a finished structural member, marked, labeled, and ready to assemble, with no manual cutting in between.
The coil is loaded onto the decoiler and fed into the roll-forming line, where the steel is cold-formed at ambient temperature into the structural section. On the same line, CNC control cuts each piece to length, punches the service and pass-through holes, and marks and labels it.
As a result, each member reaches your site with its mark, its position in the model, and its holes. No measuring, cutting, or drilling is needed in the field. Cutting scrap stays at our plant instead of landing on your job budget.
CNC plant at Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City, operated under Panama's EMMA regime (Law 159 of 2020), which allows duty-free import of machinery, raw material and inputs.
Cold forming is also the transformation that supports the Panamanian origin of the goods: it changes the tariff heading of the product, from flat-rolled product to structural section. The coating confers no origin; the forming does.
- Cold roll-formed from coil, with no fabrication welding in the section
- Cut-to-length, punching, marking, and labeling, all in-line
- Every piece identified against the structural model and its cut list
- Manufacturing dimensional tolerance of ±0.5 mm
Cold formingCNC cuttingPunchingMarking and labeling
Manufacturing parameters
What you can check line by line against your spec
Every one of these values appears on the mill certificate and on the data sheet we issue with the order. If a figure is not on this page, it is not yet confirmed for your project, and we confirm it in writing in the quote.
Feedstock
- Base steel
- Steel sheet for cold-formed framing members, ASTM A1003/A1003M (Type H structural grades)
- Coating
- Zinc-aluminum-magnesium (Zn-Al-Mg) coated steel: ZM275 (EN 10346) / ZMM275 (ASTM A1046/A1046M Type 1)
- Coating mass
- 275 g/m² total across both faces (≈137.5 g/m² per face)
- Sheet thickness
- 0.85 mm to 2.5 mm
Forming and machining
- Process
- Cold roll-forming from coil
- In-line operations
- CNC cut-to-length, punching, marking, and labeling
- Dimensional tolerance
- ±0.5 mm
- Connections
- Screwed / bolted. No field welding and no site galvanizing
Identification, assembly and dispatch
- Piece marking
- Every member marked and labeled to its position in the structural model
- Pre-assembly
- Walls, floor cassettes, and trusses assembled in the plant and checked against the shop drawings
- Bundling
- Profiles and panels bundled, strapped, and identified by lot
- Documentation
- Mill certificate for the steel, take-off and cut list, and, when the scope includes engineering, sealed structural calculations
Production capacity of 20,000 m² per month (cold-formed steel structure, Las Mañanitas plant); the lead time of each order is confirmed against the order. Fabrication and dispatch lead times depend on the production schedule and are confirmed in writing in the quote for your project.
From purchase order to truck
How an order gets produced
01
Scope and take-off
We receive the structural model, the drawings, or, if you do not have them yet, the area and the building type. From that we prepare the take-off: how many pieces you need, in which section and thickness, and in what sequence they are needed on site.
24 business hours02
Formal quote
We issue the quote with the scope of supply, the documentation included, and the dispatch terms. Prices are always given in writing, not as a phone estimate.
48 h03
Scheduling and forming
The cut list is loaded to the line. The steel is formed, cut, punched and labeled piece by piece against the model.
04
Assembly and check
If the scope includes panels, they are assembled and dimensionally checked against the shop drawings before bundling. Correcting a squareness error in the plant costs less than correcting it on site.
05
Bundling, documentation, and dispatch
Material is bundled by lot and ships with the mill certificate and, for export orders, the Panamanian certificate of origin.
Dimensional control
Squareness is checked in the plant, not on site
In the plant, a panel that is out of square takes one adjustment to fix. On an island job site, with the crane on a day rate, the same error can set back the schedule.
Every frame and every panel is checked against the shop drawings before it moves to bundling. NewCon Steel's manufacturing dimensional tolerance is ±0.5 mm, and that is the figure controlled piece by piece.
Traceability follows the same logic: every piece can be tracked back to the steel lot it came from. When a reviewer asks for the mill certificate, nobody has to reconstruct it, because it is already tied to the lot.
- Dimensional check of the frame against the shop drawings
- Traceability from the piece back to the originating steel lot
- Mill certificate for the steel available with the order
Product
What comes off these lines
Structural panels
Wall panels, floor cassettes, and trusses assembled in the plant, numbered and sequenced against the structural model.
AISI S240-20
Pre-assembled structural panels →Structural kits
The building's entire structure (profiles, panels, connections, and accessories) on a single purchase order.
Sealed calculations
Complete structural kits →Bolted structural steel
Zn-Al-Mg–coated frames and structure, with holes and connections made in the plant, so erection is done with bolts.
Bolted erection
Bolted structural steel →The plant
Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City
Production hall, roll-forming line, profile staging, frame assembly, overhead crane, and dispatch yard.
The ISO certifications belong to the PEB Corp Group
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 37001 are PEB Corp Group certifications. They are not certifications of NewCon Steel as an independent entity, and we are not going to present them as such. The plant operates inside Centro Industrial PEB, under the group's management systems. We spell this out because an auditor will check it.
Send your take-off, and we will confirm scope and lead time
Reply within 24 business hours · technical proposal / quote in 48 h. Send quantities in linear meters, m², or metric tons (1,000 kg), plus profile thickness and destination country.
PEB Corp Group offices
The group offices in Panama, Bogotá and Santo Domingo serve PEB Corp, SmartBrix Construction and NewCon Steel®. The manufacturing plant is in Panama.