About Ironbound
Ironbound supplies weathering steel for cladding, roofing and landscaping across Canada. We work with architects and landscape architects from early design through to installation, and with the installers and contractors who build it.
Ironbound is a brand of Keel Architectural Products, a Halifax company that has imported European building materials since 2011. We hold stock in Halifax and manage our own shipping and warehousing
What we do
The Steel
We buy from one source, SSAB in Sweden. SSAB mill certificates come with the steel, so what arrives on site can be traced to the mill and checked against ASTM A606-4. Sheet runs from 0.7mm to 3mm thick, 1500mm wide, in lengths from 2500mm to 4500mm. Ruukki profiles and perforated panels are made from the same SSAB steel.
The System
Heavy-gauge steel needs the right support behind it. We supply SYSTEA thermally broken sub-framing with exposed or concealed fixing, and our details also work with standard girts, hat channels and wood strapping. For anything that isn't a flat panel or a profile, we do custom fabrication and welding, from fins and screens to planters and structural elements.
Supply and fabrication
We stock flat COR-TEN sheet in Canada. Custom facade panels are fabricated in Canada or in Europe, depending on their size and complexity. Our fabrication partners in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto handle cutting, forming and welding, and we coordinate the whole order from fabrication to shipping.