Our History

Founded in 1922, Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. is a successful family-owned business that specializes in precision specialty metal fabrication, industrial ventilation systems, full-service welding, on-site service and installation, design assistance, short production runs and prototyping.  A pioneer of the region’s traditions in quality sheet metal work, Budde Sheet Metal has served commerce for over one hundred years, including industries such as aerospace, automotive, construction, defense, and food processing.

Throughout the years, Budde Sheet Metal’s facility changed locations and in the 1950’s moved to our current location on Leo Street. Leo’s three sons and brother all became involved with the family business and proved to be invaluable to the company’s operations. In later years, Leo’s grandsons and nephew joined the family business.

Budde Sheet Metal is currently owned and operated by the third and fourth generation of Buddes who take pride in the history of their family business and the superb reputation that Budde Sheet Metal has in the sheet metal industry.

In 2006, Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. opened a second location in Lima, Ohio. Throughout the 101 years that Budde Sheet Metal has been in business, it has been on the forefront of industry development.

• By World War II, Budde had gained the specialty skills needed to help build experimental and replacement parts for aircraft at the Army Air Corp’s Dayton modification center (now a part of Wright Patterson AFB).
• If you’re driving a car with padded windshield corner posts, there is a good chance that the thin metal inserts for that padding were developed in prototype by Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
• Familiar detergents around your house may be just slightly cheaper because the packaging operation includes a miniature blow-pipe system by Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. to capture dusts that would otherwise be lost in the manufacturing process.
• Prototypes for the fenders, cowl and gas tank on your garden tractor might have been made by Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
• Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. was involved in the design and development of the molds for some of the first fiberglass housings for ATM machines used in the Dayton area.
• Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. was involved in the early development and prototype stages for the electric car battery box, the electric radiator fan shrouds and motor mounting brackets for the electric radiator fans.
• Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. is proud to have (past and present) the best skilled tradesmen in the industry.
• Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc. has the skilled technicians, the machinery for the job and the imagination to build just about anything made of metal.