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What we do
For decades, supplying metal parts has been our core business. Metal is part of our DNA — but so is the service around it. Once a request comes in, our team is already at work: choosing the right material, working out dimensions, running a risk analysis, and planning the job from there.
Every order is drawn up digitally and, once approved, sent straight to the machines on our floor. From that point on, it's our craftsmen who take over. Each part is tagged for assembly and checked against the standard the client asked for — delivered loose, or built into a complete solution, depending on what the project needs.
Where people take over
Digital tools carry the process a long way, but not all the way. An 8-metre sheet of steel that needs bending isn't really about the fold — it's about handling that length safely between every step. A spiral staircase is harder still: there's no program for that. It's shaped by an operator's instinct, built on years of doing exactly this.
That's where our people make the difference no machine can.
Knowing what metal can do, we decided to start something new: Architectural Metals.
Over a century in the metal industry gave us more than capability — it gave us a feel for the material most people never get the chance to develop. Architectural Metals is how we put that to use outside our usual world of parts and production.
Here, our expertise serves a different kind of brief: the creative sector's. Architects, designers, developers, hospitality groups, general contractors and property owners bring us a vision; we bring the metal, the machinery, and the craftsmen to make it real — bespoke, from first sketch to finished piece.
