Custom and build-to-print work
The part you cannot find in a catalogue. Drawings, samples, non-standard threads, unusual materials, and your own brand marked on the part and the box.
What we take on
- Build to print — you supply the drawing or a 3D file, we make the part and confirm tolerances and material on the quote
- Reverse engineering from a sample — send the physical part; we measure it and return a drawing for your approval before anything is cut
- Non-standard threads and configurations — where a standard part almost fits
- Material substitution — carbon steel to 316 stainless, or a different coating class for a specific corrosion environment
- Private label — your part number laser-marked or stamped on the body, and your branding on the bag, box or label
- Custom packaging and kit assembly — the fittings kitted per job with a contents label, so your customer receives one bag per machine rather than a box of loose parts
How a build-to-print job actually runs
- Drawing review and DFM feedback. We come back with anything that will be expensive or unreliable to make — not to change your design, but so you can decide with the cost in front of you. Manufacturing feedback at this stage is where the money is saved.
- Material, coating and tolerance confirmation in writing. Nobody proceeds on assumptions about which stainless or which plating class.
- Sampling. Usually a small batch; for standard specifications we can turn samples around in 48 hours and bulk inside a week. Non-standard tooling takes longer and we will give you the date rather than a guess.
- Your approval, in writing, against measured dimensions.
- Production, with an inspection record per batch.
- Pre-shipment inspection. Yours, ours, or a third party you nominate.
Why a multi-source supplier is better at this than one factory
Custom work is a process question as much as an equipment question. A part that
needs hot forging plus precision thread grinding plus a specific plating may want three different shops, each
doing the step it is actually good at. A single factory either makes it with the equipment it has — or
declines. We can route the work, which is the whole point of buying through a sourcing partner.
What to send
- Drawing (PDF, DWG, STEP or IGES all fine) or the physical sample
- Material and coating requirement
- Annual volume, and the first-order quantity
- Any documentation requirement: material certificate, dimensional report, pressure test, PPAP-style package
- Marking and packaging requirement if it is a private-label program
A note on intellectual property: we work to your drawings under confidentiality, we do
not put your part numbers in public catalogues, and where a program warrants it we will sign your NDA before
drawings are exchanged. If tooling is paid for by you, ownership of that tooling is yours and we will say so
in writing.