Explore the fabrication of pig pen panels, gates, and handling equipment designed for swine operations. Learn about corrosion protection, material selection, and real-world farm installations.
The Problem Pig Pen Fabrication Solves
Pig farming requires robust equipment that can withstand the aggressive environment of swine operations. Pigs are strong, curious animals that root, chew, and push against pen components. Their waste is highly corrosive, creating one of the most challenging environments for metal equipment. At Fulei Metal, we fabricate pig pen components for swine operations across Europe and Southeast Asia.
Pig Pen Design
Pig pen panels must contain animals ranging from piglets to 300 kg boars. Panel height ranges from 1,000 to 1,500 mm for sows and boars. Vertical bar spacing is typically 100 to 150 mm. Farrowing crates confine sows during farrowing with side rails, front and rear gates, and piglet heat lamp guards. Gestation stalls house individual sows during pregnancy with precisely dimensioned components. Loading and handling equipment includes races, crowd gates, loading chutes, and sorting gates.
Sheet and Grade Selection for Pig Pen Fabrication
Galvanized steel is the standard material with zinc coating providing essential corrosion resistance against manure, urine, and humidity. We use 1.5 to 3.0 mm thick steel tube and sheet. For components exposed to severe corrosion such as feeders and floor components, stainless steel (grade 304) provides superior longevity. Some components use epoxy-coated steel for enhanced chemical resistance.
Corrosion Challenges
Pig manure and urine are highly corrosive due to ammonia content. Metal components face continuous exposure, and even galvanized coatings can be attacked by prolonged exposure to fresh manure. Pig houses require regular cleaning with high-pressure washers and aggressive chemicals, so equipment must withstand these processes. Pig houses maintain 18 to 25 degrees Celsius with high humidity, creating ideal corrosion conditions.
How Pig Pen Fabrication Is Fabricated
Our TRUMPF fiber laser cuts panel components, feeder parts, and hardware. Steel tubes are cut to length and notched for frame assembly. CNC press brake machines form brackets, mounting plates, and reinforcement components. Panel assembly uses MIG welding for steel tube structures, with all welds ground smooth. Welded assemblies are hot-dip galvanized after fabrication, with stainless steel components possibly electropolished.
Pig Penning: Stiffness and Cleanable Surfaces
Penning for pigs is specified around two things that are easy to get wrong: the panel has to be stiff enough that an animal leaning on it does not deform the bottom rail, and every surface the animal contacts has to be free of sharp edges and of pockets where feed and waste collect. This is why the bottom rail is a folded section rather than a flat bar, and why the panel is galvanized after welding rather than assembled from pre-coated parts – a cut end on a pre-coated tube is bare steel from the day it is made.
Next Step for a Pig Pen Fabrication Enquiry
Pig pen fabrication requires understanding of swine behavior, corrosion challenges, and structural engineering. Fulei Metal’s experience in livestock equipment fabrication makes us a trusted partner for swine operation projects.
If you are sourcing this type of part, our DFM engineering review page covers the tolerances, batch sizes and inspection we work to, and custom sheet metal fabrication shows the wider range we produce in Ningbo, China. For background reading before you request a quote, see veterinary equipment fabrication livestock.
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Most enquiries that start on a page like this are not an order for Pig Pen Fabrication — they are a search for a factory that can make something like it. Send us your drawing, 3D model or sample and we will review the manufacturing process and the quotation requirements, then come back with a process plan, a price and a lead time.
We work from 2D drawings, STEP / DWG / DXF / PDF files, or a physical sample if that is all you have.
No complete drawings yet? Describe the part, send photos or a sketch, or send a sample — we can start from there. Discuss your project.
Trade Terms and Delivery
We quote under the standard Incoterms your logistics team already works with, and build the packing and documentation around the one you choose.
- EXW — you collect from our Ningbo facility and run export clearance through your own forwarder.
- FOB Ningbo — we deliver to the vessel at Ningbo port and handle export clearance.
- CIF — we cover carriage and insurance to your named destination port.
- DDP — we handle carriage, insurance, import clearance and duties through to your door.
Send your destination country, target delivery date and preferred trade term together with the drawing. Request a quotation.
Payment Terms
How a project is paid for is agreed before production starts, and the structure that applies to your order is stated on the quotation and on the order confirmation, so there is no ambiguity later.
- 30% advance payment with the order and the 70% balance before shipment — our standard structure.
- 70% advance payment with the order and the 30% balance before shipment — used for some projects.
- 100% payment in advance before production starts — used for some projects.
If your finance team works to a fixed structure, say so in the first enquiry and we will confirm what applies to your order before you commit. Request a quotation.
Quotation Time
We quote from your drawings. How long that takes depends on what the part asks for:
- Simple parts — quoted within 24 hours. Laser-cut blanks and bent components, supplied with complete 2D or 3D drawings. Mon–Fri, GMT+8.
- Complex assemblies — quoted after the drawing review. Payment kiosks, multi-part welded frames, enclosures with purchased hardware, or anything needing a coating or assembly trial. We confirm a quotation date once the scope is clear.
Production lead time is quoted separately, after drawing review and process confirmation. Send your drawings.
What stands behind this quotation
- Manufacturing since 20162,500 m² Ningbo plant — 3 laser cutting machines (including newer TRUMPF), 4 CNC press brakes and 10 welding stations.
- Shipped to more than 30 export marketsEnclosures, cabinets and formed parts supplied to OEM buyers across Europe, North America and Asia.
- 123 documented product casesMedical device housings, HVAC and heat pump enclosures, agricultural and livestock equipment, industrial hydraulics, material handling trolleys and EV charging cabinets.
- Factory evidence you can checkTUV Rheinland audit reference MIC-ASI243729 and Bureau Veritas reference MIC-ASR263630 available for buyer review on request.
Before you send drawings: project confidentiality is default · first-article inspection is carried out before a batch continues · pricing is staged from prototype quantity to repeat volume · pre-shipment photos and packing records are prepared when the project needs them.