Why Work With MinFab

Most contractors specialize in one thing. We don’t have to. Mineral Fabrication & Machine Co. is a full-service construction, fabrication, and machining company — which means we can take a project from design through pre-construction, fabricate the custom components it needs, and build or install it in the field, all under one roof. For clients, that means fewer contractors to manage, fewer handoffs where things get lost, and one company accountable for the whole job.

We’ve also stayed independent and family-owned for nearly 50 years, in an industry where a lot of shops our size get bought up and absorbed into national chains. That matters for clients because it means the same values that built this company in 1978 are still the ones running it today — direct communication, a crew that treats your project like their own, and decision-makers who are still reachable, not buried in a corporate hierarchy three states away.

The simplest answer is that they come back. Roughly 90% of our business is repeat clients — companies and agencies who’ve trusted us with one project and returned for the next. Clients like Dominion Energy, U.S. Silica, American Woodmark, and Greer Lime have worked with us on multiple jobs, and public agencies from the West Virginia Division of Highways to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have trusted us with complex, high-visibility infrastructure work. That kind of repeat business doesn’t happen because of marketing — it happens because the work holds up and the relationship is easy.

Our location works in clients’ favor, too. Based in Keyser, WV, we’re positioned to take on projects throughout the South, Midwest, and Northeast, while staying small enough — and close enough — to give clients the kind of responsiveness and personal attention a big regional or national contractor can’t match. You’re not a project number to us; you’re a relationship we’re trying to keep for the next 50 years.