Pain Points in This Industry
- The artwork is bigger than the logistics allow.
- A fabricator who can form the shape often cannot finish it to gallery standard.
- Hanging installations need repeatable parts in the thousands.
- The budget is fixed before the fabrication method is chosen.
What Customers Need
- Segmented construction with internal ribs, drilled for bolting on site
- Mirror polishing after cutting and welding, not before
- High piece counts held to one size and one finish
- An honest answer on which method fits the budget
Products That Fit
Large Steel Balls
Mirror polished hollow spheres from ∅200mm to ∅3500mm for public art landscape and architecture.
12 products
Hollow Steel Balls
Stamped water pressured or spun hollow spheres from ∅6mm to ∅3500mm with drilling tapping and threaded holes.
13 products
Stainless Steel Globes
World globe sculptures with hand bent map projections tube frames and optional rotation tilt and lighting.
6 products
Stainless Steel Water Drop Sculptures
Lifelike tear drop and raindrop forms water pressured to any curvature and height you specify.
3 products
Specialty Steel Spheres
One-off sphere types that sit outside the main ranges: chrome balls for VFX perforated spheres egg shapes and spheres with bases or hooks.
12 productsTypical Application Scenarios
- A ∅3.6m sphere quartered for a 40ft container
- 7,100 drilled ∅51mm spheres as one installation
- A baseball cut from a large steel ball
- Spheres suspended on an abacus grid
Solution Flow
Concept and plan
We work from your concept, sketch or CAD and advise on forming route.
Solution and quotation
Method, segmentation and finish priced against your budget.
Implementation and production
Forming, cutting, rib welding, drilling and polishing.
Inspection and packing
Fit check on segmented work before packing.
Shipping and installing
Loading plan agreed with your freight forwarder.
Cases in This Industry
3.6 Meter Large Steel Balls For Santa Fe Opera Theater
The sphere reached site in a standard 40ft container and was assembled from quarter sections.
Santa Fe, United States
Large Stainless Steel Baseball For Nationals Park
The large stainless steel baseball is installed at Nationals Park in Washington.
Washington, United States
Suspended Hollow Stainless Steel Spheres For Publicis Russia
The Sun Lion reads across the workplace as a single suspended image assembled from thousands of mirror spheres.
Moscow, Russia
Floating Steel Ball Sculpture
The year 1858 is represented in the sculpture, marking the founding of Corvallis Academy.
Oregon State University, United StatesDelivery Capability
- Diameters from ∅6mm to ∅3500mm, wall thickness 0.6mm to 16mm
- Stock supply in 1 to 3 days on standard hollow sizes
- Scheduled production in 7 to 15 days, sculptures in 15 to 30 days
- Express, air and sea freight with EXW, FOB, C&F or DDU terms
- Segmented construction with bolted internal ribs above container limits
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Stainless Steel Water Drop
Made to orderPublic Art And Sculpture FAQ
Can you build a sphere larger than a container?
Can you work from a sketch rather than CAD?
Can you handle very high piece counts?
Do you cut spheres into other shapes?
Talk to Someone Who Has Built This Before
Send the drawing, the site and the deadline. We will tell you what is buildable and what ships.