The support steel that carries cable tray, ladder rack and overhead busway through a data center or plant — trapeze hangers, floor stands, wall brackets and seismic bracing frames fabricated to the routing drawings.
Cable tray, wire basket, ladder rack and overhead busway all need something to hang from, and on a large project that something is a fabricated support system: trapeze hangers sized to the tray load and span, floor-mounted stands where the ceiling won't carry it, wall brackets along the perimeter, and seismic bracing frames where the code requires them. On a data center campus the quantity is enormous, the details repeat, and the schedule follows the electrical contractor's rough-in.
FabTek fabricates cable tray and pathway supports to print at our Hazlehurst, Mississippi plants. Structural members are cut on our robotic plasma and laser lines, formed and welded by certified welders, and finished by hot-dip galvanizing through our partners or on our own powder-coat line. For electrical contractors, data center developers and industrial owners, the value is a fabricated support system delivered in kitted, match-marked lots on the rough-in schedule, from the same source as the equipment platforms and busway housings.
Channel and angle trapezes with drop-rod provisions, sized to the tray width, load and span on the routing drawings.
Free-standing tray and busway supports for raised-floor and slab installations, with base plates and anchor patterns.
Cantilever brackets and column-mounted supports for perimeter runs and equipment yards.
Fabricated ladder rack, runway and junction pieces for telecom and network rooms where the design calls for custom lengths or finishes.
Bracing frames and sway-brace attachments detailed to the project's seismic design.
Supports bundled by room or run, match-marked to the routing drawings, with hardware.
Data centers are the largest consumer: white space, electrical rooms, gray space and mechanical galleries all carry tray and busway overhead. Industrial plants and process facilities use the same supports for cable tray along production lines; substations and switchyards use galvanized tray supports in control buildings and yards; telecom facilities use ladder rack and runway.
Electrical contractors buy support packages by room or phase; data center developers buy them as part of the campus steel scope alongside equipment skids and platforms and data center busway housings; industrial owners buy them with the conveyor systems and platforms FabTek installs.
| Materials | Carbon steel channel, angle, tube and plate; aluminum or stainless where specified |
|---|---|
| Support types | Trapeze hangers, floor stands and goalposts, wall and column brackets, ladder rack and runway, seismic bracing frames |
| Sizing | To the tray or busway width, load and span on the routing drawings; engineered design by others |
| Hardware | Drop rods, beam clamps, anchors and fasteners supplied per the drawing, galvanized or stainless |
| Finish | Hot-dip galvanized to ASTM A123 through our partners, or powder coat in-house (ANSI 61, black, white) |
| Fabrication | Robotic plasma and laser cutting, press-brake forming, certified welding |
| Delivery | Kitted by room or run, match-marked, bundled for the rough-in sequence |
| Documentation | Material certs, dimensional inspection, finish records; ISO 9001:2015 |
| Also specified as | Cable tray support, tray hanger, trapeze hanger, tray stand, ladder rack, cable runway, busway hanger, cable tray strut |
Representative capabilities — exact ranges, ratings, and finishes are confirmed per project. Send drawings for a firm quote.
Pathway supports are needed in the order the electrical contractor works the building, not all at once. FabTek kits supports by room or by run, match-marks each bundle to the routing drawings, and ships against the contractor's sequence so the crew opens the bundle for the room they are in. The same drawings and revisions are retained so the next hall or phase is released with a purchase order. Our post on cable tray supports and ladder rack for data centers covers how the support scope is specified and bought.
Built at four production sites in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
ISO 9001:2015 quality management, AWS-certified welding, OSHA-compliant facilities.
In-house powder coat backed by an IEEE 2000-hour salt-spray certification.
Reserved-line capacity and the automation to grow with your volume.
FabTek fabricates to the routing and support drawings produced by the electrical engineer or contractor; the load and seismic design is theirs. We review the drawings for fabrication conflicts and flag them before we cut.
FabTek Industries fabricates trapeze hangers, floor stands, brackets, ladder rack and seismic bracing frames at its Mississippi plants for data center developers and electrical contractors, kitted by room and shipped nationwide.
Either. Hot-dip galvanizing is typical for yards, substations and plants; powder coat is common in white space and electrical rooms where the finish color matters. Both are available on the same order.
Yes. Tray supports, busway hangers, equipment platforms and PDU and UPS cabinet housings can be fabricated and scheduled together so the room's metal scope arrives from one source.
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Have a support package to quote? Send the routing drawings and the rough-in schedule — we'll come back with a kitted fabrication plan and a firm price, typically within one business day.