How Mississauga's metal shops show up online
47%
We read the websites of 158 metal shops in Mississauga, part of our study of 2,095 shops in 23 Canadian cities. Here is what they show buyers, and how Mississauga compares.
What buyers in Mississauga see
Mississauga leans on machining: 50% of its shops offer it, one of the three highest shares in the study. Yet 37 of 79 machine shops name none of their machines, the second highest share of the 23 cities, and the machine list is how an engineer tells whether a part will fit. Many shops say they help with drawings (63%) or make prototypes (33%), but 73% don't say whether they take a small or one-off job.
The basics
Four basics, and how Mississauga compares
- 73%show no ISO or CWB certificationAll 23 cities: 74% · 1 point lower · tied 8th lowest of 23 cities
- 56%name none of their equipmentAll 23 cities: 54% · 2 points higher · tied 11th lowest of 23 cities
- 96%don't say how many people work thereAll 23 cities: 96% · the same · tied 10th lowest of 23 cities
- 54%don't say when they startedAll 23 cities: 49% · 5 points higher · 5th highest of 23 cities
67 of the 83 welding shops in Mississauga don't mention CWB.
The shop map
Every one of Mississauga's 158 shops, one dot each
Pick what the colours show.
Shows a certification: 43Shows none: 115
Names its equipment: 70Names none: 88
Gives its team size: 6Doesn't say: 152
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 Mississauga. The others are its neighbouring municipalities.
What a buyer checks
A shop's spec sheet, the way most Mississauga sites read it
A made-up Mississauga shop. A line is struck through when most of the city's 158 sites leave it out.
Sample Fabricating, Mississauga
Sample shop, not a real company
- Services
Fabrication, welding, laser cuttingOn nearly every site - Phone
555 010 0142Shown on 153 of 158 - Certification
CWB W47.1 · ISO 9001Missing on 115 of 158 - Equipment
4 kW fiber laser · 220 t press brake · 5 axis millMissing on 88 of 158 - Year started
Since 1989Missing on 85 of 158 - Team size
34 peopleMissing on 152 of 158 - Small jobs
One-offs welcomeMissing on 115 of 158
The oldest Mississauga shop that gives a year started in 1952.
How it compares
Where Mississauga 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
Mississauga and its neighbours
Brampton 10 km · Toronto 20 km · Hamilton 45 km
| Measure | Mississauga158 shops | Brampton82 shops | Toronto189 shops | Hamilton65 shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No certification | 73% | 70% | 73% | 75% |
| No equipment | 56% | 50% | 50% | 60% |
| No team size | 96% | 96% | 97% | 99% |
| No year founded | 54% | 56% | 50% | 48% |
How long they have been at it
73 Mississauga shops say when they started
- Middle year
- 1987
- tied 7th oldest of 23 cities
- Started in 2001 or earlier
- 80%
- 5th highest of 23 cities
- Oldest year given
- 1952
The other 85 give no year. Plum: started in 2001 or earlier. Teal: since 2002.
What they show and what they do
Certifications and trades in Mississauga
Certifications on their websites
| Group | Mississauga | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| None of these | 73% | 74% | tied 14th |
| ISO only | 17% | 12% | 6th |
| CWB only | 8% | 12% | tied 16th |
| 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 | Mississauga | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal fabrication | 68% | 69% | tied 15th |
| Welding | 53% | 49% | 9th |
| Machining | 50% | 40% | tied 3rd |
| Sheet metal, cutting and bending | 44% | 40% | 8th |
| Railings and stairs | 18% | 20% | tied 11th |
| Structural steel | 17% | 20% | 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 say it takes one-off parts, the buyer calls someone else
Industry in Mississauga
A few numbers on industry in Mississauga
- 70,000+manufacturing jobs in Mississauga, 2024Source: City of Mississauga, 2024 Employment Survey Report
- $30/hrmedian machinist pay, Toronto regionSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
- $28/hrmedian welder pay, Toronto regionSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
From the city's page on Metal Shop Guide, each with its source.
For shop owners
In Mississauga, add these three things first
In the order of the city's own gaps: what most sites here leave out first.
- 0196%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.
- 0373%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 Mississauga, Metal Shop Guide covers the City of Mississauga and lists 160 shops. 158 have a website of their own, and those are the shops we read, 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 0.6% of the Mississauga total, so small gaps can be chance.
Cite this page: Figured Media, “How Mississauga's metal shops show up online”, October 2026, with data from Metal Shop Guide. https://figuredmedia.com/research/metal-shops-online-2026/mississauga/
Photo credits
- Mississauga, at the top: Photo by The Eloquent Peasant, CC BY 4.0, edited (cropped)
- Shop floor, behind the quote: Photo by Contour, CC0, edited (cropped)
Shop map: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census boundary files, Open Government Licence, Canada. Country map: Natural Earth, public domain.