Did you know that Smiths offers Processing Services?

Smiths offer a huge ex-stock range of non-ferrous materials, stainless steel and engineering plastic and to compliment this range we also offer a comprehensive range of additional processing services. Our customers operate in competitive market places, and we have developed these services to help them reduce their ongoing costs. We aim to provide the most cost-efficient method of delivering raw materials to go into manufacturing processes.

Many component manufacturing processes begin with a number of simple, repetitive cutting operations. Operations such as billeting, sawing, blanking, guillotining and profiling are all processes that require dedicated machines and operators for what are usually very inefficient jobs.

We believe that these jobs are better handled for you by us and we have invested more than a million pounds in processing equipment to do it! Because of the volume of cutting jobs that we do for our customers, we’re able to do it very efficiently. We buy equipment that is designed for these simple cutting operations, and we operate it in very efficient ways. Our saws, for example, work through the night.

What are the advantages of utilising our processing services?

• Your staff can concentrate on the expert engineering they’re trained for.
• Your specialised, expensive machinery isn’t used for basic repetition work.
• You avoid ‘hidden’ costs associated with scrap, paperwork and inspections.
• You start with quality pieces. All of our processing is covered by ISO 9001:2000
• You get the product when you need it. Lead times are kept to a minimum
• We have no minimum processing quantity, even down to one blank!
• Our high machine utilisation makes the cost to you as low as possible
• You don’t have to hold stock. We can arrange cutting schedules to suit you
• We’re capable of handling very large processing jobs (10,000 cuts or more!)

Get in touch with your local service centre today to see how we can assist your processing needs.

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