Fabritec Engineering Solutions was established at the beginning of 2020 by two engineers from differing backgrounds. One specialises in bespoke and unique design and fabrication, the other in design, toolmaking, and project/production management.
Although capable of many aspects of engineering and manufacturing, the aim of the company was to target two main areas of the manufacturing market.
Whilst covering all forms of fabrication, our aim is to specialise in the design and manufacture of all jigs and fixtures to aid assembly, holding, painting as well as the handling and transportation of products within the manufacturing process, predominately the automotive industry.
Giving customers a company that can be trusted to deliver innovative and cost-effective ways of overcoming their manufacturing issues.
our servicesEngineering solutions. This encompasses many of the above targets but with the emphasis on product lifecycle management. The process of managing a product from inception through design and then to manufacture.
The manufacturing process will be achieved by using our in-house design and production facilities, or if necessary to meet specific customer needs, contract managing the project through our network of technical manufacturers, on their behalf.
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Meet our dedicated project management team that will help you achieve your vision from the start of a project to finish and everything in between, each with many years of experience in the industry to provide the perfect solutions to any fabrication need or project management solution.
Having served a fabrication and welding apprenticeship, Paul Littlechild has remained within metal fabrication in one form or another for over 25 years. Paul has continued to gain experience and many skills though out these years, such as in the use of CNC laser cutters, CNC bending and forming machinery and has become highly skilled in the use of computer aided design (CAD).
This skill set has allowed him to work on projects within many key sectors including the automotive, aviation, marine and defence industries.
In more recent years working for a large automotive manufacturing company, Paul focused his design skills producing bespoke jigs and fixtures to aid the efficient and cost effect manufacture of plastic and composite painted automotive parts.
Paul has recently been presented with an opportunity to pursue his dream of running his own fabrication business. This has taken the form of Fabritec Engineering solutions which he is now focusing his many years of experience and knowledge, to succeed in.
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Although Fabritec is based in Funtington, near Chichester in the south of England, we serve a wide variety of locations across the UK, providing CNC and fabrication services and solutions.
Our project management team will ensure professional grade products will meet the high standards required no matter where you are based, with regular updates using email, telephone and face-to-face communication such as Zoom to ensure a smooth and professional process.
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Hear from some of our satisfied customers
"Thank you so much to the guys at Fabritec. After a disastrous experience with a dog bath that I purchased on the Internet, I decided to get one made to my specifications. It is of a superior quality and worked out less expensive! It will stand the 'test of time' in a dog grooming parlour or for home use.
They were extremely friendly and helpful. Communication and service was outstanding. I would definitely recommend Fabritec."
Michaela
Managing Director
"Fabritec have done an excellent job once again for me, they are consistently supportive over a project and are backed up with a wealth of engineering expertise. They will always provide support and assistance with any design criteria and specifications that need to be met, giving me confidence that the outcome will be spot on.
Fabritec take a realistic approach towards cost and manufacture and will endeavour to simplify designs to ensure a cost effective solution. I would not hesitate to recommend their services to colleagues or engineers alike."
Tom Bridle
Design Engineer / Formaplex
"I would like to thank the Fabritec team on behalf of Formaplex for completing another suite of paint fixtures. They have really helped our operations in providing solutions for our paint fixture, work bench and factory assembly fixture requirements.
Knowing that they are on hand to help is really positive for our team and we can rely on a very fast and efficient turn around. I would not hesitate to recommend their services.
Dave Tribe
Technical Development Engineer
"I would like to thank the Fabritec team on behalf of Formaplex for completing another suite of paint fixtures. They have really helped our operations in providing solutions for our paint fixture, work bench and factory assembly fixture requirements.
Knowing that they are on hand to help is really positive for our team and we can rely on a very fast and efficient turn around. I would not hesitate to recommend their services.
Dave Tribe
Technical Development Engineer
Fabrication is the process of building metal structures or assemblies from fabricated parts. The fabricated parts will be produced from raw stock material, be it sheet, tube, box section or bar. The raw material will be fabricated with various metal working methods. The most common being, machining, cutting, forming and bending.
Other than bolting and screwing assemblies the most common form will be welding. This generally consists of three main processes; mig welding, tig welding and spot welding.
Welding is a fabrication process whereby two or more parts are fused together by means of heat, pressure or both, forming a join as the parts cool.
MIG welding (metal inert gas) works on the following principle. Using lots of electricity, an electrical arc (a short circuit) is created between an electrode wire (a positive anode) and the parent metal that’s being welded (a negative cathode).
The arc melts the electrode wire, which is then deposited to create the weld. When the heat is removed, the weld pool cools, solidifies and form a new piece of fused metal – the weld is made.
When you use a modern MIG welding machine a spool-fed electrode wire is fed through a tensioning mechanism and into a co-axial supply line. This leads to a hand-held MIG welding gun/torch. At the same time, a shielding gas (typically argon, carbon dioxide or a mixture) is fed along the same supply line to the gun.
The gas protects the weld pool from atmospheric gases that would otherwise weaken the weld.
TIG welding (tungsten inert gas) is another name for gas tungsten arc welding. Ideally the process works like this: the welder makes an arc between the base metal and the non-consumable tungsten electrode, a type of electrode that does not melt. At the point where the arc hits the base metal a molten weld pool forms.
A thin wire of filler metal is slowly hand fed into the weld pool, where it melts. All the while, an inert shielding gas protects the tungsten electrode and weld pool from oxygen contamination. No fluxes are used. The finished product is a sound, slag-free weld that shares the same corrosion resistance properties as the parent metal.
A press brake is a special type of machine press that bends and forms sheet metal into shapes. Some press brakes have CNC controls and can form parts with accuracy to a fraction of a millimetre.
Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials. Laser cutting is mainly a thermal process in which a focused laser beam is used to melt material in a localised area.
The focused laser beam is directed at the material, which then either melts, burns, vaporizes away, or is blown away by a jet of gas, leaving an edge with a high-quality surface finish. A continuous cut is produced by moving the laser beam or work piece under CNC control.
Welders basically join two pieces of metal together using specialized equipment and becoming experts at completing that specific task as quickly and as effectively as possible.
On the other hand, metal fabrication deals with the entire process. The welding, cutting, machining, bending and assembling of metal parts.