November 17, 2020
Since starting the business 23 years ago, in a home workshop with a Brobo saw, an MIG welder and a variety of hand tools, Bertazzo Engineered has continued to move with the latest trends and technologies as our industry has evolved over that time. I remember buying a copy of AutoCAD Release 9 on floppy discs, and a 186 computer with 4MB of RAM to run it! Back then plasma cutting machines were the norm – they followed an outline profile, and it had to be the right black ink as well. Laser cutting machines were still around 2kW and could only cut thin material, at a cost of over $1,000 per hour. Press brakes were high-tech if they had one axis back-stop. But regardless of that, I could always see that the future of metal fabrication was to run…