Custom Aluminum Enclosures

Custom Aluminum Enclosures for Prototype and Production

TZR manufactures custom aluminum enclosures from your drawings, CAD files, samples, and bills of materials. We support formed housings, machined panels, welded cabinets, removable covers, chassis, and assembled enclosure projects.

TZR Aluminum Enclosures
Since 2013
118,000 sq. ft. Facility
100+ Team Members
Prototype to Production

Build the Aluminum Enclosure Around What Goes Inside

An enclosure must fit the components, connectors, cables, displays, fans, switches, and mounting hardware inside it. It may also need to manage cooling, grounding, service access, sealing, and appearance.

Build the Aluminum Enclosure Around What Goes Inside

Products We Manufacture

  • Electrical boxes
  • Control enclosures
  • Instrument cases
  • Battery housings
  • Electronic chassis
  • Custom cabinets

Typical Applications

  • Industrial automation
  • Telecommunications
  • Laboratory equipment
  • Charging systems
  • Robotics
  • Electronic devices

Use Sheet Metal Where It Saves Cost and Machining Where It Matters

The right manufacturing route depends on the enclosure geometry, quantity, strength, tolerance, and appearance.

Formed Sheet Metal Housings

Formed Sheet Metal Housings

Laser cutting and CNC bending suit boxes, covers, cabinets, chassis, and mounting panels. This route supports prototypes, bridge production, and repeat orders without costly tooling.

Machined Features and Panels

Machined Features and Panels

CNC machining adds precision where the design needs thick panels, accurate connector locations, flat sealing surfaces, or heat-transfer features.

Welded or Fastened Assemblies

Welded or Fastened Assemblies

Sections can be joined with welding, rivets, inserted hardware, or removable fasteners based on strength, appearance, access, and quantity.

Catch Expensive Design Problems Before Material Is Cut

A hole placed too close to a bend can distort. A short flange may not fit the bending tool.
A long weld can pull a panel out of flatness. These problems are easier to correct in CAD than after production begins.

Catch Expensive Design Problems Before Material Is Cut

What We Review

Bend radius and flange length
Connector and cable clearance
Hole-to-bend and edge distance
PEM hardware installation space
Corner relief and weld access
Gasket and sealing surfaces
Flatness and distortion risk
Ventilation and fan openings

We clarify production risks before quoting or manufacturing. Drawing changes are not introduced without approval.

IP, NEMA, and EMI performance depends on the complete enclosure design, assembly, seals, joints, coatings, and validation.

Specify the Alloy and Finish Together

The alloy affects forming, machining, welding, strength, and corrosion behavior. The finish affects appearance, electrical contact, thread fit, wear resistance, and sealing surfaces.

5052 for Formed Enclosures

5052 for Formed Enclosures

A common choice for bent boxes, covers, bracket, and welded housings because it offers good formability and corrosion resistance.

6061 for Machined Features

6061 for Machined Features

A common choice for machined panels and structural components. Temper and bend geometry must be reviewed when forming is required.

Surface Finish Options

Surface Finish Options

Choose anodizing, powder coating, painting, bead blasting, brushing, polishing, or natural mill finish to match the project.

Mask grounding points, threads, press-fit features, electrical contacts, and gasket surfaces where required.

Define color, texture, gloss, grain direction, cosmetic surfaces, and masking areas on the drawing.

Move From Cut Metal to a Finished Enclosure

An enclosure project may require laser cutting, bending, welding, machining, hardware insertion, deburring, finishing, assembly, and packaging.

Cut & Bend
Weld & Machine
Insert Hardware
Finish & Assemble
Inspect & Pack
Move From Cut Metal to a Finished Enclosure

Plan the Production Sequence

Welding may affect flatness. Finishing may change hole size or cover threads. Some hardware must be installed before coating, while other components should be installed afterward.

Assembly and Packaging

We can install specified studs, nuts, standoffs, hinges, latches, handles, panels, and brackets. Packaging can be planned around cosmetic surfaces and export transportation.

One coordinated project reduces supplier handoffs and helps control fit, revisions, and surface protection.

Approve the First Build, Then Hold the Standard

The approved drawing, finish specification, and first article provide the standard for repeat production.

Approve the First Build, Then Hold the Standard

First Article Inspection

Check critical dimensions, hole locations, bend geometry, panel fit, hardware position, and assembly interfaces before repeat production.

Finish and Assembly Checks

Inspect coating coverage, color, texture, protected threads, grounding areas, hardware location, panel fit, hinge movement, and latch operation.

Repeat Production

Future orders follow the approved drawing revision and acceptance requirements. Review any change that may affect fit, function, appearance, or cost.

Material certificates and inspection records can be supplied when defined during quotation.

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Drawing Revision
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First Article
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Customer Approval
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Repeat Production

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