How metal shops in Lévis show up online
71%
We read the websites of 44 metal shops in Lévis, part of our study of 2,095 shops in 23 Canadian cities. Here is what they show buyers, and how Lévis compares.
What buyers in Lévis see
Lévis shops are fabricators first: 84% offer metal fabrication, the highest share of the 23 cities, and 30% do structural steel. Yet 71% name none of their equipment, second only to Vancouver, and 11 of 13 structural steel shops leave it out. Only 3 mention prototypes. With 44 shops, Lévis is a smaller sample, so read small gaps with care.
The basics
Four basics, and how Lévis compares
- 73%show no ISO or CWB certificationAll 23 cities: 74% · 1 point lower · tied 8th lowest of 23 cities
- 71%name none of their equipmentAll 23 cities: 54% · 17 points higher · 2nd highest of 23 cities
- 98%don't say how many people work thereAll 23 cities: 96% · 2 points higher · 4th highest of 23 cities
- 48%don't say when they startedAll 23 cities: 49% · 1 point lower · tied 11th highest of 23 cities
Only one Lévis shop says how many people work there.
The shop map
Every one of Lévis's 44 shops, one dot each
Pick what the colours show.
Shows a certification: 12Shows none: 32
Names its equipment: 13Names none: 31
Gives its team size: 1Doesn't say: 43
Each dot is a listed shop with a website, moved a little (about 250 m) so no single shop can be picked out. The darker outline is Lévis. The others are its neighbouring municipalities.
What a buyer checks
A shop's spec sheet, the way most Lévis sites read it
A made-up Lévis shop. A line is struck through when most of the city's 44 sites leave it out.
Sample Fabricating, Lévis
Sample shop, not a real company
- Services
Fabrication, welding, laser cuttingOn nearly every site - Phone
555 010 0142Shown on 44 of 44 - Certification
CWB W47.1 · ISO 9001Missing on 32 of 44 - Equipment
4 kW fiber laser · 220 t press brake · 5 axis millMissing on 31 of 44 - Year started
Since 1989Shown on 23 of 44 - Team size
34 peopleMissing on 43 of 44 - Small jobs
One-offs welcomeMissing on 31 of 44
Not one of the 44 shops in Lévis shows all four basics a buyer checks.
How it compares
Where Lévis sits among the 23 cities
Each dot is one of the 23 cities. The dark line is all 23 cities together. Each row runs from the lowest city to the highest.
Show no ISO or CWB certification
60%85%
Name none of their equipment
34%73%
Don't say how many people work there
89%100%
Don't say when they started
33%60%
Don't say whether they take small jobs
31%77%
Close to home
Lévis and its neighbours
Quebec City 15 km · Terrebonne 215 km · Longueuil 215 km
| Measure | Lévis44 shops | Quebec City97 shops | Terrebonne52 shops | Longueuil108 shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No certification | 73% | 74% | 81% | 76% |
| No equipment | 71% | 59% | 58% | 58% |
| No team size | 98% | 94% | 89% | 94% |
| No year founded | 48% | 44% | 40% | 57% |
How long they have been at it
23 Lévis shops say when they started
- Middle year
- 1991
- tied 10th youngest of 23 cities
- Started in 2001 or earlier
- 78%
- tied 10th highest of 23 cities
- Oldest year given
- 1947
The other 21 give no year. Plum: started in 2001 or earlier. Teal: since 2002.
What they show and what they do
Certifications and trades in Lévis
Certifications on their websites
| Group | Lévis | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| None of these | 73% | 74% | tied 14th |
| ISO only | 7% | 12% | 15th |
| CWB only | 18% | 12% | 3rd |
| Both ISO and CWB | 2% | 3% | tied 14th |
ISO here means ISO 9001, AS9100 or ISO 13485. CWB means CWB W47.1 or W47.2. Rank 1 is the city with the biggest share.
The work they offer
| Work | Lévis | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal fabrication | 84% | 69% | Highest |
| Welding | 52% | 49% | 10th |
| Sheet metal, cutting and bending | 52% | 40% | 2nd |
| Machining | 30% | 40% | 20th |
| Structural steel | 30% | 20% | 2nd |
| Railings and stairs | 16% | 20% | tied 16th |
Shares of all the city's shops. A shop can do several kinds of work. Rank 1 is the city with the biggest share.
If the site doesn't name the machines, an engineer can't tell if the part will fit
Industry in Lévis
A few numbers on industry in Lévis
- 18.3%of jobs are in manufacturing, Chaudière-Appalaches, 2025Source: Government of Quebec, socio-economic portrait of Chaudière-Appalaches
- $27.50/hrmedian machinist pay, Chaudière-Appalaches regionSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
- $28.13/hrmedian welder pay, Chaudière-Appalaches regionSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
From the city's page on Metal Shop Guide, each with its source.
84% of Lévis shops offer metal fabrication, the biggest share of the 23 cities.
For shop owners
In Lévis, add these three things first
In the order of the city's own gaps: what most sites here leave out first.
- 0198%of sites here don't show it
How many you are
Roughly how many people work there.
- 0273%of sites here don't show it
Your certifications, by name and standard
CWB W47.1 Division 2, ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D. Link the certificate.
- 0371%of sites here don't show it
Your equipment, with sizes
Make, model and the numbers that matter: bed size, tonnage, travel, axes, the thickest plate you cut.
Source
Where these numbers come from
For Lévis, Metal Shop Guide covers Lévis and area and lists 44 shops. All of them have a website of their own, and we read them, as of October 28, 2026. “Not shown” means we didn't find it on the pages we read. A blind check of 40 shops suggests each share is a few points high.
One shop is 2% of the Lévis total, so small gaps can be chance.
Cite this page: Figured Media, “How metal shops in Lévis show up online”, October 2026, with data from Metal Shop Guide. https://figuredmedia.com/research/metal-shops-online-2026/levis/
Photo credits
- Lévis, at the top: Photo by Wilfredor, CC0, edited (cropped)
- Shop floor, behind the quote: Photo by aluminum Zheng ji, Unsplash License, edited (cropped)
Shop map: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census boundary files, Open Government Licence, Canada. Country map: Natural Earth, public domain.