IRONVALEPrecision & Fabrication

WHAT WE DO

CAPABILITIES

Send us the drawing. We'll tell you how we'd make it.

OP-MILL / OP-TURN

CNC MACHINING

Milling and turning for prototype, development and production components.

Three and four axis vertical machining plus CNC turning. We machine aluminium, mild steel, stainless, tool steel, brass, bronze and engineering plastics, from a single development part to repeat batches of a few hundred.

  • 3-axis and 4-axis CNC milling
  • CNC turning, bar-fed and chucked work
  • Prototype and development components
  • Small and medium batch production
  • Fixtures, jigs, housings and complex brackets
  • Shafts, bushes, spacers, hubs, rollers, pins, bearing carriers

OP-FAB

FABRICATION

Steel, stainless and aluminium fabrication from one-off assemblies to repeat production.

OP-LASER / OP-FOLD

SHEET METAL

Laser cutting, folding and precision sheet metal components.

OP-WELD

WELDING

MIG, MAG and TIG welding supported by controlled workshop procedures.

OP-ENG

DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

CAD, reverse engineering, drawing production and design for manufacture.

OP-INSP

INSPECTION

Dimensional verification, CMM inspection and documented quality control.

Fibre laser cutting stainless steel sheet next to a CNC press brake

ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY

  • Mechanical assemblies and subassemblies
  • Bearings, inserts, rivnuts and threaded inserts
  • Customer supplied components built into assemblies
  • Fixtures, fit-up, deburring and finishing

EMERGENCY ENGINEERING

EMERGENCY ENGINEERING

Where capacity permits we run an expedited breakdown service. Bring us the failed component and we will measure it, draw it and make it.

  • Damaged or worn shafts
  • Obsolete brackets and machine components
  • Replacement bearing housings and guards
  • Urgent production fixtures and equipment modifications

Emergency manufacturing is always subject to material availability and machine capacity. We will tell you honestly what is achievable before you commit.

TIG welding a stainless steel fabricated frame

Subcontract processes

One purchase order. A finished component.

  • Anodising
  • Hard anodising
  • Zinc plating
  • Powder coating
  • Wet paint
  • Electroless nickel plating
  • Heat treatment
  • Laser marking
  • Passivation
  • Electropolishing
  • Grinding
  • Cylindrical grinding
  • Waterjet cutting
  • Specialist laser cutting
  • Surface finishing

Manufacturing workflow

Manufacturing workflow

Stages are skipped when they are not required.

  1. 01ENQUIRY
  2. 02RFQ RECEIVED
  3. 03ENGINEERING REVIEW
  4. 04ESTIMATING
  5. 05QUOTED
  6. 06CUSTOMER APPROVAL
  7. 07PURCHASE ORDER RECEIVED
  8. 08JOB CREATED
  9. 09MATERIAL REQUIRED
  10. 10MATERIAL ORDERED
  11. 11MATERIAL RECEIVED
  12. 12PROGRAMMING
  13. 13PRODUCTION READY
  14. 14IN PRODUCTION
  15. 15SUBCONTRACT PROCESS
  16. 16INSPECTION
  17. 17ASSEMBLY
  18. 18FINAL INSPECTION
  19. 19PACKING
  20. 20DISPATCH
  21. 21DELIVERED
  22. 22INVOICED
  23. 23COMPLETE