How Longueuil's metal shops show up online
84%
We read the websites of 108 metal shops in Longueuil, part of our study of 2,095 shops in 23 Canadian cities. Here is what they show buyers, and how Longueuil compares.
What buyers in Longueuil see
Longueuil and the South Shore lean toward sheet metal: 48% of shops offer sheet metal, cutting or bending, one of the three highest shares in the study. Machine shops here rarely show a quality system. Of its 38 machine shops, 32 show no ISO 9001, AS9100 or ISO 13485, the third highest share of the 23 cities. And more than half of all its shops (57%) don't say when they started.
The basics
Four basics, and how Longueuil compares
- 76%show no ISO or CWB certificationAll 23 cities: 74% · 2 points higher · tied 9th highest of 23 cities
- 58%name none of their equipmentAll 23 cities: 54% · 4 points higher · tied 9th highest of 23 cities
- 94%don't say how many people work thereAll 23 cities: 96% · 2 points lower · tied 4th lowest of 23 cities
- 57%don't say when they startedAll 23 cities: 49% · 8 points higher · 3rd highest of 23 cities
Not one of the 108 shops in Longueuil shows all four basics a buyer checks.
The shop map
Every one of Longueuil's 108 shops, one dot each
Pick what the colours show.
Shows a certification: 26Shows none: 82
Names its equipment: 45Names none: 63
Gives its team size: 6Doesn't say: 102
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 Longueuil. The others are its neighbouring municipalities.
What a buyer checks
A shop's spec sheet, the way most Longueuil sites read it
A made-up Longueuil shop. A line is struck through when most of the city's 108 sites leave it out.
Sample Fabricating, Longueuil
Sample shop, not a real company
- Services
Fabrication, welding, laser cuttingOn nearly every site - Phone
555 010 0142Shown on 105 of 108 - Certification
CWB W47.1 · ISO 9001Missing on 82 of 108 - Equipment
4 kW fiber laser · 220 t press brake · 5 axis millMissing on 63 of 108 - Year started
Since 1989Missing on 61 of 108 - Team size
34 peopleMissing on 102 of 108 - Small jobs
One-offs welcomeMissing on 64 of 108
The oldest Longueuil shop that gives a year started in 1959.
How it compares
Where Longueuil 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
Longueuil and its neighbours
Montreal 15 km · Laval 25 km · Terrebonne 30 km
| Measure | Longueuil108 shops | Montreal170 shops | Laval37 shops | Terrebonne52 shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No certification | 76% | 84% | 84% | 81% |
| No equipment | 58% | 55% | 60% | 58% |
| No team size | 94% | 95% | 97% | 89% |
| No year founded | 57% | 48% | 51% | 40% |
How long they have been at it
47 Longueuil shops say when they started
- Middle year
- 1992
- tied 7th youngest of 23 cities
- Started in 2001 or earlier
- 75%
- tied 11th lowest of 23 cities
- Oldest year given
- 1959
The other 61 give no year. Plum: started in 2001 or earlier. Teal: since 2002.
What people search for
What people in Longueuil search for, and what shops show
- 70searches a month for “soudure”from Longueuil67%of welding shops in Longueuil don't mention CWB
- 70searches a month for “cnc machining”from Longueuil40%of machine shops in Longueuil name none of their machines
Source: Google Keyword Planner, average monthly searches from October 2025 to September 2026, read on October 28, 2026 for Metal Shop Guide. “From Longueuil” means people searching there. “Across Canada” means searches that name the city.
What they show and what they do
Certifications and trades in Longueuil
Certifications on their websites
| Group | Longueuil | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| None of these | 76% | 74% | tied 9th |
| ISO only | 5% | 12% | tied 19th |
| CWB only | 17% | 12% | 4th |
| Both ISO and CWB | 3% | 3% | tied 10th |
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 | Longueuil | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal fabrication | 69% | 69% | 14th |
| Welding | 54% | 49% | tied 7th |
| Sheet metal, cutting and bending | 48% | 40% | tied 3rd |
| Machining | 35% | 40% | tied 15th |
| Structural steel | 19% | 20% | tied 11th |
| Railings and stairs | 18% | 20% | tied 11th |
Shares of all the city's shops. A shop can do several kinds of work. Rank 1 is the city with the biggest share.
Thirty years in business sells, but only if the site says so
Industry in Longueuil
A few numbers on industry in Longueuil
- 111,500manufacturing jobs in Montérégie, 2025Source: Government of Quebec, socio-economic portrait of Montérégie
- 7,689aerospace jobs in the Longueuil agglomerationSource: Ville de Longueuil, Investir à Longueuil
- $29/hrmedian machinist pay, MontérégieSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
From the city's page on Metal Shop Guide, each with its source.
For shop owners
In Longueuil, add these three things first
In the order of the city's own gaps: what most sites here leave out first.
- 0194%of sites here don't show it
How many you are
Roughly how many people work there.
- 0276%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.
- 0359%of sites here don't show it
The jobs you take
One-offs, prototypes, short runs or production only. If there's a minimum, say so.
Source
Where these numbers come from
For Longueuil, Metal Shop Guide covers Longueuil and the South Shore and lists 108 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 0.9% of the Longueuil total, so small gaps can be chance.
Cite this page: Figured Media, “How Longueuil's metal shops show up online”, October 2026, with data from Metal Shop Guide. https://figuredmedia.com/research/metal-shops-online-2026/longueuil/
Photo credits
- Longueuil, at the top: Photo by Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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.