What Sessa Manufacturing does

Sessa Manufacturing is a third-generation, family-owned custom precision sheet metal fabrication shop headquartered at 2932 Golf Course Drive, Ventura, California. Founded in 1979, the company operates industrial metal laser cutters, CNC bending, welding, grinding, and surface finishing equipment (including powder coating and anodizing) to produce 220,000+ parts per year across aluminum, stainless steel, and galvanized steel. Its core services — laser cutting, bending, welding, and surface finishing — are bundled into custom enclosure and component production for electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, and commercial food equipment customers.

The company sells predominantly through a direct sales motion: phone, email, and a website quote request form, supplemented by an online instant-quoting platform at Fabworks.com. Pricing is quote-based per project, with minimum order quantities as low as one part, enabling both prototyping and production runs. The customer base spans 650+ companies, with many relationships exceeding 20 years, indicating strong retention in a fragmented regional market. Ownership and leadership remain within the Sessa family (Michael Sessa, Owner; Jonathan Sessa, Manufacturing Engineer) alongside operations and general management, and the business is privately held with no external institutional capital, no parent company, and no disclosed M&A activity. Geographic coverage is domestic, primarily California, with no international footprint or disclosed regulatory certifications.

Name

Sessa Manufacturing

Legal name

Sessa Manufacturing

Website

https://sessamfg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sessa Manufacturing is a third-generation, family-owned custom precision sheet metal fabrication shop in Ventura, California, serving 650+ electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, and industrial customers with laser cutting, bending, welding, and finishing services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ventura

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Sheet Metal Fabrication Services: Sessa Manufacturing generates revenue through custom precision sheet metal fabrication services including laser cutting, bending, welding, and surface finishing. Revenue is generated on a per-project, per-part basis with no minimum order requirements (MOQ as low as 1 part). Pricing is quote-based for custom work.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sessa Manufacturing is a custom precision sheet metal fabrication shop producing laser-cut, bent, welded, and surface-finished metal parts and enclosures for industrial customers. The company fabricates parts from aluminum, stainless steel, and galvanized steel with minimum order quantities as low as one part, supporting both prototyping and full production runs. The offering is delivered as a custom job-shop service with quote-based pricing and is complemented by an online instant-quoting channel (Fabworks.com).

Product overview

Sessa Manufacturing is a third-generation sheet metal fabrication company offering precision manufacturing services. The core offering consists of four primary services: Laser Cutting (2D parts produced using industrial metal laser cutters), Bending (high precision sheet metal fabrication), Welding (welding and grinding for market-ready products), and Surface Finishing (powder coating, anodizing, and other finishing options). The company also offers Fabworks.com as an online instant quoting platform. They specialize in custom sheet metal enclosures for electronics, serving industries including aerospace, medical, automotive, and commercial food. Production capacity exceeds 220,000 parts per year with minimum order quantities as low as 1 part.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Laser Cutting Industrial metal laser cutting service that rapidly produces 2D sheet metal parts for industrial customers across electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, and commercial food equipment industries.
• CNC Bending High-precision CNC bending service for sheet metal parts, delivering tight-tolerance bends for industrial customers across multiple sectors.
• Welding and Grinding Welding and grinding services that assemble and finish fabricated components into market-ready products for industrial customers.
• Surface Finishing Surface finishing services including powder coating and anodizing that deliver corrosion-resistant, durable, market-ready finishes on fabricated metal parts.
• Fabworks.com Instant Quoting Platform Online instant-quoting and order management platform operated by Sessa Manufacturing that lets customers get sheet metal fabrication quotes and faster turnaround via fabworks.com.
• Custom Sheet Metal Enclosures Custom-designed precision sheet metal enclosures fabricated from aluminum, stainless steel, and galvanized steel with various surface finishing options, for electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, and commercial food equipment applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 220,000+ parts produced per year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FabworkscoreTechnology or IntegrationFabworks is a new service offered by Sessa Manufacturing providing instant quoting and superior manufacturing speed. The partnership integrates fabworks.com as an online platform for faster customer access to quoting and fabrication services, complementing Sessa's traditional direct contact approach.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Quickparts: Custom prototype and low-volume manufacturing service for plastic and metal parts, now part of 3D Systems. Offers instant quoting for sheet metal and CNC, directly competing for Sessa's prototyping-to-production customer segment.
• MetalTek International: Custom metal casting and fabrication manufacturer serving aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial markets. Comparable to Sessa as a multi-generational, US-based custom metal manufacturing specialist serving overlapping end markets.
• SendCutSend: Online instant-quoting sheet metal fabrication service offering laser cutting, bending, and finishing for prototypes and production runs. Directly competes with Sessa's Fabworks.com offering in the same low-MOQ, quick-turn prototype-to-production niche.
• OSH Cut: Online instant-quoting sheet metal and CNC fabrication platform serving makers, startups, and industrial customers nationally. Direct competitor to Sessa's instant-quoting Fabworks.com service in custom sheet metal parts.

Emerging players

• Fictiv: On-demand manufacturing platform for custom mechanical parts, including sheet metal fabrication. Comparable in targeting hardware startups and OEMs needing quick-turn custom parts with online quoting, but operates as a software-managed marketplace rather than owning production capacity.
• Plethora: On-demand precision sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining service targeting aerospace, defense, and industrial customers. Comparable to Sessa's mid-volume, multi-industry custom fabrication model but with a software-platform-led go-to-market.

Others

• OnlineMetals: Online metals supplier offering cut-to-size metal materials and basic fabrication services. Adjacent to Sessa's business — supplies the raw aluminum, stainless steel, and galvanized steel materials that Sessa fabricates into finished parts.

Broad incumbents

• Xometry: Publicly traded AI-driven manufacturing marketplace connecting buyers with vetted suppliers for custom parts including sheet metal fabrication. Broad incumbent that competes for the same instant-quote buyer as Sessa but aggregates thousands of suppliers rather than operating its own shop.
• Protolabs: Publicly traded digital manufacturer offering custom prototyping and on-demand production across CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, and 3D printing. Broad incumbent with significantly greater scale and geographic reach than Sessa, serving overlapping electronics, automotive, aerospace, and medical customers.
• Hubs (Protolabs Network): Online manufacturing platform (now part of Protolabs) offering instant quoting for CNC, sheet metal, 3D printing, and injection molding. Overlaps with Sessa's Fabworks.com in the digital sheet metal quoting space, but with a global supplier network.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sessa-manufacturing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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