What we make, and what we do not
Published as it actually is, including the work we send elsewhere.
CNC Machining
Milling and turning of production parts in carbon steel, stainless, aluminium, and common engineering plastics, to tolerances we hold consistently across a full run.
Fabrication and Welding
Sheet and structural fabrication with certified procedures, documented material traceability, and weld inspection to the standard your drawing calls for.
Assembly
Sub-assembly and finished assembly, including integration of customer-supplied components and packing to your despatch requirements.
Prototype and Low Volume
First-off and short-run work priced for what small quantities genuinely cost to set up, rather than at a rate that assumes a production order will follow.
Production Runs
Repeat production with fixed tooling and scheduled call-off, quoted against actual floor loading and committed rather than estimated.
Inspection and Reporting
Dimensional inspection with reports supplied as standard, including measurements that fell close to the tolerance limit rather than only those that passed.
Work we will decline, and why
Precision grinding work
Parts requiring ground finishes or tolerances tighter than we hold reliably from a machining operation. These belong in a shop set up for grinding, and we will say so rather than attempting it and inspecting hopefully.
Very high volume production
Quantities where dedicated automation would be the economic answer. We are a mid-volume shop and a customer needing hundreds of thousands of parts is better served elsewhere.
Exotic alloys and superalloys
Materials requiring tooling, speeds, and experience we do not have in quantity. A first attempt on an unfamiliar superalloy is an expensive way for both of us to learn.
Regulated aerospace and medical work
Where the approval and documentation regime exceeds what we hold. We will not claim a certification we do not have, and we will tell you which approvals your part actually requires.
Parts outside our working envelope
Components larger than our machines take. This sounds obvious and is a routine cause of quotes that quietly assume a part can be repositioned mid-operation.
Work we are too loaded to date honestly
Where the schedule cannot support your required date, we decline rather than quoting a date we would miss.
How parts are checked
First-off inspection before a run proceeds. The first part from any setup is measured against the drawing and signed off before the machine continues. A setup error caught on part one costs one part; caught at despatch it costs the batch.
In-process measurement at defined intervals. Critical dimensions are checked through the run rather than only at the beginning and end, because tooling wear moves dimensions gradually and the drift is invisible without sampling.
Near-limit measurements reported. Parts within tolerance but consistently close to a limit indicate a process that is drifting. We tell you rather than waiting for it to cross.
Material traceability retained. Certificates are kept against the job and supplied on request, including for production runs completed some time ago.
Our scrap is ours. Parts we make wrong are remade at our cost. There is no conversation about whether the drawing could have been clearer.