Becoming the Nashville metal guys with Adam Heffner of Maker Table

In the first of our two-part episode, Adam Heffner, founder of Nashville-area shop Maker Table Metal joined The Fabricator Podcast live at FABTECH 2022 in Atlanta. Heffner talks about how, after a career as an ironworker, he and his wife built up Maker Table to small fabrication business bases around architecture metals and home décor, from custom hand rails to furniture. Check out Part 2. He also talks about how he strategically picked the Nashville area to set up shop and how that's paid off in a major way with the rapid growth of restaurants, bars, hotels, and other city-wide initiatives. Jump ahead to 10:10 to get to our chat with Adam. The guys also talk about how the San Francisco police department is implementing automation, the use exoskeleton technology, and living off the grid. Email us at podcast@thefabricator.com with any comments, questions, or suggestions.

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The Fabricator Podcast brings you conversations with people who make things out of metal. We speak with manufacturing leaders, metal fabricators, welders, job shop owners, small business entrepreneurs, artists, marketers, educators, and more. Host Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief of The Fabricator, and a rotating co-hosts also go beyond discussing just manufacturing and the skilled trades, and chats about pop culture, current events, food, music, movies, comedy, and, of course, robots. Episodes drop on Tuesdays. The Fabricator Podcast is presented by the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association and part of the FMA Podcast Network.