For buyers
Machined parts and metal from one Canadian company, on one contract.
CNC parts from partner shops in Canada, with the metal on the quote, and metal for your projects from our network of Canadian metal suppliers. You deal with us from the first file or list to delivery, and pay in Canadian dollars.
- One quote or offer, one contract, one invoice
- Canadian shops, Canadian metal suppliers, Canadian carriers
- Your files and account held in Canada
Why buyers use CanadaFab
One company to deal with, and every step on record.
What you get from us on every order, whichever suppliers, shops and carriers do the work.
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One contract, with us
One quote or offer, one contract and one invoice. You never chase a supplier or a shop.
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Canadian dollars
Every line priced in Canadian dollars, with the tax set by the province we deliver to.
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Canadian shops and suppliers
Partner shops in Canada machine your parts; our network of Canadian metal suppliers supplies the metal.
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A Canadian content record
The shop and its province, the labour, the metal’s country of melt and the carriers, step by step.
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One job, several shops
Turning in one shop and five-axis milling in another, split by operation, still on one quote.
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Your data in Canada
Your files and account are held in Montreal, with backup copies in Calgary.
Two services
Machined parts, or metal for a project.
Both run on one account. A metal request can turn into a CNC job, and every CNC quote includes the metal.
CNC machining
Custom parts from your STEP files and drawings.
- Upload your files
STEP models and PDF drawings, with the material, finish, quantity and date.
- One quote in four lines
Metal, machining, freight and tax by province, in Canadian dollars.
- Made by partner shops
Machined and inspected in Canada, with the metal bought cut to size.
- Delivered with the record
At your dock, with the inspection report and the content record.
Metal sourcing
Plate, sheet, bar, tube and shapes for your project.
- Send your list
In your own words: pasted, uploaded, photographed or typed line by line.
- Settle the exact request
We ask what’s missing until every line is exact.
- One offer the same day
A price for each line and delivery to your site, with the date.
- Delivered to your site
Cut to size if you asked, with mill test reports, to your dock or your door.
Where you start
Start with what you need: parts or metal.
The app opens on one question. Machined parts go to a CNC quote from your STEP files and drawings; metal for a project goes to a request from your list. Both run on the same account.
- One account for CNC quotes, metal requests and orders
- Your delivery sites and their receiving details, given once
- A metal request can become a CNC job
The quote
Set up every part of the job on one screen.
Upload STEP files and drawings, then choose each part’s material, finish, tolerance, threads, quantity and date. The quote shows metal, machining and freight, finishing when a partner finisher does it, and the tax for your province.
- Each part in 3D, measured from its STEP file
- Material, finish, tolerance, threads and inserts, part by part
- Save the quote, or ask the quote desk to review it
- Accept by debit, card or purchase order
Canadian content
For buyers who have to show Canadian content.
The rules that ask for it, each explained in a guide with its dated primary sources.
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Defence primes and tier-ones
ITB obligations total $83.8 billion, $23.4 billion not yet identified (ISED, 21 April 2025), and small-business work can earn double credit.
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Federal suppliers
Since 15 June 2026, strategic federal procurements from $5 million put 25% of the score on Canadian value added.
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Industrial buyers in Ontario and Quebec
1,710 of Canada’s 2,384 machine shops with employees are in Ontario and Quebec (Statistics Canada, June 2026).
Controlled goods
Controlled goods: our plan, written before we take one.
Controlled drawings are a transfer under the Defence Production Act. This is how we’ll handle them. The guide Controlled Goods and Notice 1159 explains the rules.
- You mark the job as controlled when you upload it.
- Its files go to a separate storage lane in Canada, with keys held in Canada.
- Only cleared staff in Canada and shops registered in the Controlled Goods Program can open them.
- No tool or AI model hosted outside Canada reads them, and nobody outside Canada gets access.
We’ll say when this lane is running, with the date. Until then, please don’t send controlled drawings.
Questions
Questions buyers ask.
Do I need an account?
Yes, one account for both services. Tell us whether you buy as a company or an individual, what kind of buyer you are and where we deliver, and every quote and request fits it.
Do I upload drawings on this site?
No. This site never takes a file. You upload STEP files, drawings and lists in the CanadaFab app, where they’re held in Canada.
Who do I deal with?
CanadaFab, for the whole order: one quote or offer, one contract and one invoice. A person at our desk checks every quote and every exact metal request.
Can I pay by purchase order?
Yes. Upload your PO when you accept, we invoice when the order ships, and approved accounts get net 30. See Pricing.
Can I work in French?
Yes. The platform, the quotes and offers, the documents and the record each work in English or French.
Where does my metal come from?
From our network of Canadian metal suppliers, bought for your order. Its mill test report gives the country of melt, and your record shows it.
Buyer early access is coming soon.
Your name, work email, company and province. We’ll write when ordering opens in 2027. There’s no drawing or file on the form.
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Machined parts
Custom CNC parts from your STEP files and drawings, with the metal, machining and freight on one quote.
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Metal for a project
Your list in your own words. We settle the exact request with you and send one offer with its delivery date.
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