From napkin sketch to finished product.
Hoppers, tanks, frames, carts, platforms, and one-off equipment builds — fabricated from your drawings, your sketch, or the broken original.
Custom Industrial Equipment
Plants run on equipment nobody sells: hoppers sized to one ingredient, carts that fit one aisle, platforms that reach one valve, tanks and chutes shaped by one process. Apex Fabrication builds that equipment — engineered enough to be safe and repeatable, practical enough to ship this month.
We work from finished drawings, a marker sketch, or the worn-out original you drop at the shop — with in-house engineers to turn an idea into a buildable design before steel gets cut. Mild steel, stainless, or aluminum, finished to the standard your environment demands.
What this covers
- Hoppers, chutes, bins, and transition pieces
- Tanks, troughs, and containment in stainless or mild steel
- Machine frames, bases, and equipment stands
- Carts, racks, dollies, and material-handling fixtures
- Work platforms, crossovers, and access stairs with code-compliant rails
- Reverse-engineering and rebuilding worn or failed equipment
Jobs this service exists for
A stainless hopper matched to a new ingredient's flow characteristics
Heavy-duty transport carts sized to a product no pallet fits
A mezzanine access platform that clears existing conduit and piping
Custom Equipment from our shop
Custom Equipment FAQs
What information do you need to quote?
Whatever you have. Drawings are great, but photos, measurements, or the original part will work too. We confirm dimensions before cutting on anything safety- or fit-critical.
Can you build food-grade equipment?
Yes — stainless construction with sanitary finishes for food and wash-down environments is core work for us. See our stainless and sanitary fabrication service for specifics.
One-offs, or production runs?
Both. Most custom equipment is quantity one, but we also run repeat batches of carts, racks, and fixtures once a design is proven.
Custom Equipment across Northwest Indiana & Chicagoland
Same crew, same certifications, wherever your plant sits. Local pages for our busiest service areas:
- Custom Equipment in Valparaiso
- Custom Equipment in Portage
- Custom Equipment in Gary
- Custom Equipment in Hammond
- Custom Equipment in Chicagoland
- Custom Equipment in Hebron
- All service areas
Related: Custom Designed Machines
Flamers, wrappers, case sealers, and one-job machines built for your exact product — when no catalog machine does what your line needs.
See custom machines →Related: Stainless Steel & Sanitary Fabrication
Food-grade stainless work — tanks, tables, guards, chutes, and TIG-welded sanitary fabrication built for wash-down environments.
See stainless & sanitary →Send the drawing. Or just describe the problem.
Quotes within one business day. Emergency calls answered around the clock — because downtime doesn't wait for office hours.
● 24/7 emergency: (219) 231-5500
(219) 509-3083