About HPS Fabrications

The company

HPS Fabrications was founded in 1995. Tom D’Angelo bought it in 2019, bringing 25 years in metals with him.

ENCO Engineering, our in-house engineering division, is older than the fabrication business. It has been providing engineering services and solving structural challenges since 1985. In 1990 it added a team focused on port facilities, shiploaders and bulk material handling systems, which is why a Michigan fabricator ends up engineering the world’s largest shiploading station.

That pairing, a fabrication shop with a real engineering division inside it, is what makes design-build possible here and rare elsewhere.

Tom D’Angelo

Tom served in the US Army, in armored cavalry, on an M1A1 tank, going from driver to gunner to tank commander. He draws a straight line from that to how the shop runs: equipment supplied to the DoD has to work miles from any base with nobody to call, and the standard has not moved since. He is also a Six Sigma Black Belt, which shows up in the quality system rather than on a wall.

Asked what he wants HPS to be known for, he did not mention capacity or price:

“Honesty, integrity and quality. If someone hears the name HPS, I want them to feel good that it’s the right decision to work with us.”

Two facilities

Wyandotte, 4410 13th Street, Wyandotte, MI 48192. The main shop: engineering, cutting, forming, welding, machining and assembly, with roughly 100 feet of bay length under a gantry crane.

Madison Heights: fabrication and higher-volume production, with robotic welding, plus finishing and coating in a large paint booth. Most fabricators send coating to an outside company. Keeping it means an assembly never leaves our control to be coated by someone whose process we cannot see.

The people problem we do not have

Every manufacturer in this region will tell you they cannot find skilled labor. Tom’s answer to that question is unusual: it is not a problem here. People stay, and when there is a need they recommend their friends and family.

That is worth more to a customer than it sounds. Retention is why a fabricator can promise consistency across a build that runs for months, and why the tenth assembly matches the first.

How we quote

We do not over-promise. Timelines come from real supplier lead times, real labor hours and the actual current backlog. The cheapest quote is rarely the cheapest job.

Cost matters and we are competitive on it. But the most common way a fabrication project fails is not price. It is a supplier over-promising on a timeline they cannot meet.

Identifiers

CAGE 52YE1. DUNS 879203024. Veteran-owned. Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 5:00.