Formed in 1987, Fab-Tech began as a small company involved with miscellaneous metal forming manufacturing as well as producing several standard products.  In 1989 the company acquired its first manufacturing facility and began purchasing equipment.
	The same year brought IBM facility engineers to Fab-Tech looking for a solution to the problems they were having with their corrosive fume exhaust system.  IBM had been familiar with Fab-Tech's creative and innovative approach to problem solving.  They challenged Fab-Tech to develop a reliable, cost effective, easy to install, fire and corrosion resistant fume exhaust system that their insurance company would be happy with.  Fab-Tech engineers immediately began development of "coated duct".
	Fab-Tech was able to do what the experts said was impossible, "apply a thin layer of fluoropolymer to stainless steel".  The fluoropolymer coating provides excellent resistance to attack by chemicals and solvents which can cause rapid deterioration of other plastics and all but the most costly metal alloys.  And in 1993 the solution that Fab-Tech provided to IBM as PermaShield Pipe (PSP®) is now being used by almost every major semiconductor manufacturer around the world.