CNC Machining Parts
Wire EDM, grinding, drilling and mill component manufacture to your drawing.
Metal Fabrication and Machine Shops
Custom parts, tooling and the cranes that move them around the shop.
Machine shops buy two things from a supplier like this: parts they cannot make themselves and equipment that makes their own work faster. The range covers wire EDM, CNC milling, turning, grinding and drilling, sheet metal fabrication to 0.005 mm, stamping and deep drawing, custom fasteners, and the overhead and jib cranes that handle the work in progress.
Sector pain points
What Goes Wrong In This Sector
Parts That Have to Be Cut After Hardening
Machining soft then hardening moves the part. Wire EDM and grinding both cut hardened material, so the finished geometry is the geometry that leaves the shop.
Obsolete Machine Spares With No Source
Mill components, spindle parts and wear items are made to drawing or reverse engineered from the worn sample.
Redesigning an Assembly Around a Standard Fastener
Machining the fastener instead is almost always the cheaper change, and needs no forming tooling at these quantities.
Tolerance Stack-Up Across Four Suppliers
Cutting, bending, welding and coating in one shop makes the finished assembly one party's responsibility.
Workstations Queuing for the Bay Crane
A jib crane at the station that lifts most often usually pays back faster than any other handling investment in the building.
Buying Winch Crane Duty You Never Use
The question is whether the hook pulls as well as lifts. Answering it correctly at enquiry saves more than any discount.
What buyers need
What This Sector Actually Asks For
- Single-part and prototype quantities accepted without a minimum
- Work quoted from a drawing or from a worn sample
- Close tolerance capability stated as a figure, not implied
- Multi-process capability so an assembly stays with one supplier
- Inspection records on critical dimensions
- Lifting equipment sized to the actual duty cycle
Product groups
Groups That Serve This Sector
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Cutting bending welding assembly and coating under one roof, from prototype to production.
Metal Stamping Parts
Punching, deep drawing, bending and perforating in aluminium brass and stainless steel.
Overhead Cranes
10 to 200 tons on double beam bridges spanning up to 49 metres, in light and winch builds.
Jib Cranes
Local lifting from 250 kg to 20 tons, in wall, column, pillar, mast, portable and davit mountings.
Recommended products
Where Most Buyers In This Sector Start
How we work with you
From Enquiry To Repeat Supply
Send Drawings or the Worn Part
Either is enough to start. Mark which dimensions are critical to fit and which are free.
State Material and Condition
Grade, temper and hardness after heat treatment, because they change the process plan and the price.
Agree Tolerance Where It Matters
Tolerance drives cost faster than complexity does. Mark only the features that genuinely need it.
Approve a First Article
Check it in the actual assembly before releasing a production quantity.
Order the Spare at the Same Time
The setup cost is already paid, so a second part is far cheaper than the first was.
Further reading
Guides For This Sector
Choosing an Overhead Crane Light Build or Winch Build
Most crane enquiries name a tonnage. The two questions that actually decide the crane are whether the hook pulls as well as lifts, and how many lifts it makes per shift.
Choosing a Jib Crane Mounting for Your Building
Six mounting types exist because the building constrains the crane more often than the load does. Wall, column, free-standing, articulating, mast and portable each solve a different constraint.
FAQ
Metal Fabrication and Machine Shops Questions
Do you accept single parts?
Yes. Most machining and tooling work is replacements and one-offs rather than production batches.
Can you work without a drawing?
Yes. Send the worn part and dimensions are taken from it.
What tolerance can you hold?
Down to 0.005 mm on machined features that require it, using 4th-axis CNC machines.
Do you supply inspection reports?
Yes, with critical dimensions recorded. Ask at order stage so it is prepared alongside the parts.
Can you handle multi-process assemblies?
Yes. Machining, welding, stamping, sheet metal and coating are available in one supply chain.
What do you need to quote a crane?
Span, clear height, the heaviest routine lift, lifts per shift and whether loads are pulled horizontally.
Get A Recommendation For Metal Fabrication and Machine Shops
Tell us the process and the problem your team keeps hitting, and the answer names machines and configurations rather than categories.