LGS/CFS profiles
Cold-formed studs, tracks and hat channels — CNC-cut, punched, marked and labelled.
±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
Coil goes in one end; a finished structural member comes out the other. Walk it the way you would walk the floor — to see how your steel is made before you release the PO.
NewCon Steel manufactures at Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City, on CNC cold-forming lines that cut, punch, mark and label every profile to a ±0.5 mm tolerance, with piece-by-piece traceability back to the originating steel coil.
±0.5mmManufacturing dimensional tolerance
0.85–2.5mmSheet thickness range
275g/m²Zn-Al-Mg coating (total, both sides)
48hFormal quotation
The process
Coil to finished member, on a single line
Coated coil enters the mill and leaves as a finished structural member — marked, labelled and ready to assemble. Nothing gets cut by hand 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 executes cut-to-length, punches the service and pass-through holes, and marks and labels every piece.
That means the member that lands on your site already carries its mark, its position in the model and its holes. Nobody measures, cuts or drills in the field. The scrap stays in our plant instead of on your job budget.
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 labelling, 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 labelling
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 because it is not yet confirmed for your project — we confirm it in writing in the quotation.
- Base steel
- Steel sheet for cold-formed framing members, ASTM A1003/A1003M (Type H structural grades)
- Coating
- Zinc-aluminium-magnesium (Zn-Al-Mg) coated steel: ZM275 (EN 10346) / ZMM275 (ASTM A1046/A1046M Type 1)
- Coating mass
- 275 g/m² — total, both sides (≈137.5 g/m² per side)
- Sheet thickness
- 0.85 mm to 2.5 mm
Feedstock
- Process
- Cold roll-forming from coil
- In-line operations
- CNC cut-to-length, punching, marking and labelling
- Dimensional tolerance
- ±0.5 mm
- Connections
- Screwed / bolted. No field welding and no site galvanizing
Forming and machining
- Piece marking
- Every member marked and labelled 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
Identification, assembly and dispatch
We do not publish installed capacity, line count or fabrication lead times in days: those figures depend on the production mix, and we confirm them in writing only in the quotation for your project.
From PO to truck
How an order gets produced
01
Scope and take-off
We receive the structural model, the drawings, or simply the area and the building typology. From that comes the take-off: how many pieces, in what section, in what thickness, and in what sequence they are needed on site.
24 business hours02
Formal quotation
We issue the quotation with the scope of supply, the documentation included and the dispatch terms. No ballpark price over the phone: in writing or not at all.
48 h03
Scheduling and forming
The cut list is loaded to the line. The steel is formed, cut, punched and labelled 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 here is far cheaper than correcting it on site.
05
Bundling, documentation and dispatch
Material is bundled by lot, the mill certificate is issued — and, for export, the Panamanian certificate of origin — and the shipment leaves.
Dimensional control
Squareness is checked in the plant, not on the island
A panel out of square in the plant costs an adjustment. The same panel out of square on an island, with the crane on a day rate, costs a 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 runs the same way: 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 — 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 executed in the plant: erected with bolts.
Zero site welding
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 certifications held by the PEB Corp Group, not by NewCon Steel as a separate entity. The plant operates inside Centro Industrial PEB and under the group's management systems. We state it that way because that is exactly how an auditor will ask it.
Send us your take-off. We will tell you what comes off this plant, and when.
Formal quotation in 48 hours. Acknowledgement of your request in under 24 business hours, in English or Spanish, in your own time zone.