Industrial mezzanines & steel stairs in Hamilton.
Span Line builds and installs structural mezzanines, equipment-support platforms, and steel stairs for Hamilton's manufacturing and distribution base — from the Bayfront industrial core to Stoney Creek and the Red Hill business parks.
In short: We're an Ontario steel fabricator serving Hamilton's heavy-industry and warehouse sector with mezzanines, equipment platforms, and stairs. Everything is stamped to OBC 2024 and welded to CWB W47.1, installed across the Bayfront, Glanbrook, and Stoney Creek — a ~50-minute run down the QEW from our shop.
- From our shop to Hamilton~50 min via QEW
- Typical mezzanine lead time4 – 8 weeks from sign-off
- Typical stair lead time3 – 6 weeks from sign-off
- DrawingsP.Eng.-stamped to OBC 2024, in-house
For the Bayfront and beyond.
Hamilton knows steel — the Bayfront industrial core carries a heavy-manufacturing legacy, while Stoney Creek, Glanbrook's Red Hill Business Park, and Ancaster have filled in with distribution and lighter industry off the QEW, Red Hill, and LINC. It's a mix of old heavy-process buildings and newer distribution boxes, and each calls for a different platform approach.
The heavy-industry side is where equipment-support platforms and process-access steel earn their keep — mezzanines to carry a tank or a mixer, catwalks over a line, ship's ladders to a tank top. We build for that as readily as for a straightforward storage deck, and the QEW puts a Hamilton site within an easy install run of the shop.
Steel that solves a floor problem.
Storage mezzanines
Recover cube over racking or open floor — 125–500 psf decks for pallet and case storage.
Work platforms
Pick modules, pack-out decks, and value-add stations with conveyor pass-throughs.
Equipment platforms
Elevated support for HVAC, process equipment, and conveyor drives.
Egress & access stairs
Code-required exit stairs and mezzanine access towers to OBC §3.4.6.
Guardrails & handrails
42" industrial guarding, mezzanine edge protection, and pallet-drop gates.
Catwalks & access
Service walkways and crossovers over lines and equipment.
An equipment platform with ship's-ladder access.
For a Hamilton plant we built an equipment-access work platform with a ship's ladder — elevated steel to service a piece of process equipment where a full stair wouldn't fit the footprint. Equipment platforms are their own discipline: the structure is sized to the machine and its access, not to a storage load, and the access method is settled before the steel is drawn.
Read the full case study →- TypeEquipment-support platform
- AccessShip's ladder
- UseProcess-equipment service
- WeldingCWB W47.1
- LocationHamilton, ON
Measure, stamp, build, install.
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Site measure
A ~30-minute visit to capture the machine footprint, clear heights, access, and slab condition — especially important on Hamilton's older heavy-process buildings.
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Stamped drawings
Engineered and P.Eng.-stamped to OBC 2024 in-house — the set the City of Hamilton Building Division needs for the permit.
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In-house fabrication
Cut, welded, and finished at our shop to CWB W47.1 — not white-labelled out. Galvanizing or shop primer as the environment calls for.
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Install on your window
Sequenced to your shutdown or off-shift window and installed by our own crew, whether that's a Bayfront plant or a Red Hill distribution box.
See the full engineering & install process for how each stage is controlled.
Span Line Systems is the industrial mezzanine and stair division of Art Metal Canada. Drawings are stamped by a PEO-licensed P.Eng. on staff; welding is done to CWB W47.1 and CSA W59 by our own certified fabricators. We don't white-label the fabrication or subcontract it out — the shop that draws it builds it.
- WeldingCWB W47.1 · CSA W59
- Structural codeOBC 2024 · NBCC §4.1.5
- EngineeringPEO-licensed P.Eng., stamped in-house
- ParentArt Metal Canada
Straight answers.
Do you build equipment and process-access platforms for Hamilton plants?
Which Hamilton areas do you cover?
Can you work around a running plant?
We cover the west GTA and Golden Horseshoe — Burlington, Oakville, Stoney Creek, Grimsby — and ship province-wide. See the full service-area map or tell us the span.