Arnold Quality  /  About

Logan, Utah  ·  Established 2017
Aluminum · Stainless · Bronze

One person, one contract,
nine years ago.

170+ completed projects
Licensed in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Washington & Oregon
Aluminum · Stainless · Bronze

Rows of finished aluminum guardrail assemblies crated in timber frames down the length of the Logan shop floor
Founded
2017
Team
12
Based
Logan, Utah
Licensed
Utah · Nevada · Arizona
Washington · Oregon
Metals
Aluminum · Stainless
Bronze
We work for
Steel fabricators
& general contractors

We signed our first commercial contract
when the company was one person.

Arnold Quality Metal Works builds the non-ferrous package — aluminum, stainless and bronze — that structural steel fabricators don't self-perform. Rail, stairs, embeds, ornamental work. It is the only thing we do, which is why we are usually the shop holding the part nobody else wanted to own.

Where this started

Zach Arnold started in metalwork at sixteen and was welding professionally by nineteen. He founded Arnold Quality in 2017, in Logan, Utah.

The first commercial construction project was Salt Lake City International Airport — 4,800 linear feet of stainless guardrail and handrail through the parking structure. A structural steel fabricator held the rail package, didn't self-perform non-ferrous work, had a tight budget and a difficult position. The introduction came through a poker game at a mutual friend's house.

We signed that contract as a one-person company. Mike Hulse — the man who made the introduction — quit his job and joined as employee number two a couple of months later, before fabrication started. Over the following year the company went from one person to ten to finish the work. He runs production today.

01 — How it grew

We said yes, then we
figured out how

None of this happened by chance. Every capability this company has started as a decision — an opportunity came in, we committed to it, and then we planned and executed our way to being the shop that could deliver it. Then we did it again.

Stainless came from the airport. Bronze came from a rescue — a temple package taken over mid-contract from a subcontractor who failed to perform, with virtually no shop drawings, on a three-month schedule. We had never fabricated a bronze rail before, so we planned it to the last detail and hit the date. Bronze has been core scope ever since, and it is the metal fewest shops in the Intermountain West will touch.

Anodized aluminum at volume came the same way: a water treatment plant in Oregon, a finish we had never run at that scale, and several anodizers trialed before one could hold the standard across thousands of feet. The customer sent us the next plant.

That is the pattern, and it is deliberate: take the work, then build the capability to own it. Nine years of doing that on purpose is why the scope list reads the way it does.

A finished architectural bronze newel post with a cast flower relief panel set into the post and an ornamental finial above, the balusters running away behind it
Bronze — taken on under a three-month clock, core scope ever since.

02 — Who works here

A team small enough
that you can see all of it

Four in the office — production, finance, project management, and the owner. The floor is led by a Shop Foreman, a Welding and Fabrication Lead and a Parts Lead. Two of them are dedicated QC technicians, which is a ratio most shops our size do not carry.

Nobody on this page is a stock photo and nobody is a department. If you send us a package, these are the people who will build it, and the one who answers the phone is on this page too.

Two of them worked here, went somewhere else, and came back — one of them as our Shop Foreman. Nobody is required to do that, and it is the only claim about this company's character we would ask anyone to take seriously.

Gloved hands hand-sanding a bronze rail section with abrasive paper
Hand finishing, where the hours go.

03 — What a team this size can carry

The question every general contractor asks

It is a fair question, so here is the answer in numbers. 4,800 linear feet of stainless through an airport parking structure. 7,310 linear feet of anodized aluminum guardrail across two water treatment plants for the same steel fabricator. 743 feet of guardrail anchored into post-tensioned balconies. Two temple bronze packages taken over mid-contract and delivered in three months each.

A shop this size carries that because it does one thing. We are not splitting a floor between structural steel, miscellaneous metals and whatever else came in — aluminum, stainless and bronze are the entire business, so the equipment, the procedures and the people are all pointed at the same work.

The tradeoff is honest: we are not the shop for a job that needs forty welders next Monday. We are the shop for the package that needs to be right.

Long runs of anodized aluminum guardrail installed along concrete basins at a water treatment plant
4,530 feet of it, on one plant.

The team

Everyone who builds it

Logan, Utah

Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold

MFCEO · Master Welder/Fabricator

Michael Hulse

Michael Hulse

Director of Production

Heather Hulse

Heather Hulse

Director of Finance

Joshua Wayne

Joshua Wayne

Director of Project Management

Ricardo Hernandez

Ricardo Hernandez

Shop Foreman

Presley Arnold

Presley Arnold

Junior Estimator

Samuel Lane

Samuel Lane

Welding & Fabrication Lead

Connor Pierce

Connor Pierce

Parts Lead · Welder/Fabricator

Abraham Crowson

Abraham Crowson

Welder · QC Tech

Kyle Rigley

Kyle Rigley

Welder · QC Tech

Dustin Hales

Dustin Hales

Welder

Vance Hansen

Vance Hansen

Shop Hand

What we hold each other to

Core values

Honor
We do what is right, even when it is the hard choice.
Pride
In the work we do, paying attention to every detail. Pride in the things we are able to accomplish through power of will.
Respect
For our work, for the processes, and for our daily interactions.
Discipline
This is the oil that keeps our finely tuned machine moving forward and progressing.
Ingenuity
We will solve any problem that we face. We provide solutions, not excuses.
Industriousness
We focus on the task at hand and conquer every mission we accept. We will outwork everyone.
Attention to Detail
In all aspects of life and business, we know that nothing but our absolute best is acceptable.
It's not just Quality
It's Arnold Quality.
2017
Founded in Logan, Utah
170+
Completed projects
3
Non-ferrous metals, all in-house
5
States licensed

Have a non-ferrous package to place?

General contractors and steel fabricators — send us the drawings and a bid date. Estimates generally go out in two to fourteen days depending on size and scope.

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The work

2018–2020 · Salt Lake City, UT

SLC International Airport

The first commercial project. 4,800 linear feet of stainless guardrail and handrail — signed when the company was one person.
2018–2019 · Memphis, TN

Memphis Tennessee Temple

A stalled bronze package taken over mid-contract with virtually no shop drawings, hand-patinated and delivered in three months.
2025–2026 · Gilbert, AZ

Gilbert Northwest WTP

4,530 linear feet of clear-anodized aluminum guardrail, stairs and embeds — the second plant for the same steel fabricator.