About
Built for Canadian buyers who have to show the Canadian content in their parts.
Federal and provincial buying rules changed in 2025 and 2026. A buyer at a defence prime or an industrial manufacturer now needs parts made by Canadian shops, from metal whose origin is on paper. CanadaFab takes that whole job: the metal, the machining, the freight and the record, and metal on its own for any project in Canada.
What we do
Two services, one company to deal with.
A metal request can turn into a CNC job, and every CNC quote includes the metal, bought through the same sourcing.
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CNC machining
Custom parts from your STEP files and drawings, machined and inspected by partner shops in Canada, with the metal, the freight and the tax on one quote.
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Metal sourcing
Plate, sheet, bar, tube and shapes for your project, sourced the same day across our network of Canadian metal suppliers and delivered anywhere in Canada.
Why now
Why Canada, and why now.
Each point has a guide or a data page with its primary sources.
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Buy Canadian, since 16 December 2025
Since 15 June 2026, federal strategic procurements from $5 million reduce eligible Canadian suppliers’ prices by 10% for evaluation and weigh Canadian value added at 25% of the score. Steel counts only if melted and poured in Canada.
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ITB obligations
Defence primes owe Canada $83.8 billion of Industrial and Technological Benefits, with $23.4 billion not yet identified (ISED, data as of 21 April 2025). Work placed with a Canadian small or medium business can count double.
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Canadian shops, spread thin
Canada had 2,384 machine shops with employees in June 2026, and 63% had fewer than 10 people (Statistics Canada, table 33-10-1174-01).
Canada only
What Canada only means on a CanadaFab order.
The rules the platform is built to, written down with their sources.
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Canadian shops
Every partner shop and finisher is a business in Canada. Controlled work will go only to shops registered in the Controlled Goods Program.
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Canadian metal suppliers
We buy from Canadian metal suppliers and record the country of melt from each mill certificate, even when the melt isn’t Canadian.
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Canadian carriers
With the Canada-only option on, freight goes only to carriers on our register: operating carriers with a Canadian head office and Canadian control.
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A record of every step
Every CNC order ships with a Canadian content record: each step, where it happened, its evidence and its date.
Your data
Where your data is held.
Data held in Canada is one of our promises, so it’s written down here. The privacy policy has the detail.
| What | Where | Status |
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| These pages | Static files served by Cloudflare. No personal data, no analytics, no cookies. | Since September 2026 |
| Your account, quotes, orders, lists and files | Amazon Web Services in Montreal (ca-central-1), with backup copies in Calgary (ca-west-1). | The app runs as a preview on demo data: nothing you type in it is saved on our side |
| Controlled drawings | A separate storage lane in Canada, with keys held in Canada by a Canadian resident. | Planned, not running |
Who we are
Who runs CanadaFab.
CanadaFab is built from experience in Canadian metal supply and in placing a machine shop’s overflow with other shops.
- No partner shop, supplier or customer is named until they sign.
- Until the company is incorporated, Aaron Alexander operates CanadaFab, as the privacy policy says.
- We’ll name the people behind it here, with their roles, once the company is incorporated.
- Write to us at info@canadafab.ca, in English or French.
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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