Steel Fabricators Supplying Huntingdon

Huntingdonshire makes more than people expect

Invest Huntingdonshire counts more than 550 businesses in its manufacturing cluster and picks out Hilton Food Group, Charpak, Titan Motorsport and Paragraf as examples, a spread from food production to sustainable packaging and motorsport. Alconbury Enterprise Campus lists BioBean, AMFresh and IKO Group among its occupants, and the campus has a growing number of manufacturers using sensor technology and robotics. BioBean there turns waste coffee grounds into biofuel.

Plants like these run on frames, guards, platforms and enclosures that sit around the process, and that is ordinary fabricator territory. We make them from your drawing at a 12,000 sq ft workshop with coded MIG, TIG and MMA welders. The itemised written quote arrives within 24 hours in the working week, the lead time is confirmed in writing, and invoices run against your purchase order. Commercial and trade only.

What the Huntingdon area orders

• Food and packaging producers Production lines call for stainless or aluminium platforms, guards and support frames. We TIG weld both in an area kept apart from carbon steel, and quote the finish as its own line.
• Motorsport and advanced engineering Firms in the Titan Motorsport mould send out jigs, rigs, trolleys and lifting frames. These are batch jobs where the drawing repeats and the lead time matters.
• Energy and recycling projects at Alconbury Occupiers on the Alconbury campus working on biofuel or materials recovery need skids, plant frames, walkways and access platforms, sometimes galvanised so they stand up to outdoor duty.
• Logistics and parcel operators Ermine Business Park hosts warehouse parcel-sorting work. Sites like that order dock canopies, bollards, mezzanine edge protection and escape stairs as supply-only steel for their own fitters.

Bigger jobs for Huntingdonshire buyers

Larger orders from this kind of buyer include enclosures for generators, batteries and plant, skids and frames for process equipment, and runs of walkways, staircases and handrails supplied to fit. A site extension might ask for 10 to 40 matching access platforms or lifting frames. Structural parts are made under BS EN 1090 factory production control and can be UKCA or CE marked. Where wash-down or food contact matters, stainless is TIG welded by coded welders. Finishes are raw, primed, RAL wet spray, powder coat or hot-dip galvanised, which we arrange.

Containers for sites around Huntingdon

On a fenced yard at Ermine or Alconbury, a modified container makes a lockable store, a plant room or a welfare unit. We cut and frame structural openings in the rails, fit doors, windows and roller shutters, and can link or stack units. We also repair and repaint boxes you already own. Customers supply the container or we source it. Recent units have cost about £3,400 to £6,800 each net of VAT. See container modifications.

Frames, enclosures and stairs to drawing

We cut with plasma and bend in-house, and arrange laser-cut parts through suppliers. For Huntingdon buyers the useful products are steel enclosures with acoustic or ventilation detail, machine bases, and supply-only stairs, fire escapes and walkways. Each quote lists material, fabrication and finish as separate lines. Coded TIG welding on stainless steel and aluminium is available where hygiene or weight matters, kept in its own area away from carbon steel. See steel enclosures.

Estates around Huntingdon and Alconbury

Ermine Business Park covers 24 hectares of offices and light industrial units, with Spitfire Close among its roads. Hinchingbrooke Business Park, West Newlands Industrial Park and Stukeley Business Centre sit around the town, while St Peter's Industrial Park has four units in one terrace. Chord Business Park lies next to the A14 and near the A1, and Bicton Industrial Park is out towards Kimbolton beside Harvard Way. Sawtry Business Park and Earith Business Park serve the surrounding villages.

Why a Bedford workshop can cost Huntingdon less

Cutting, welding, finishing and checking all happen in our own 12,000 sq ft workshop, so no stage is passed to a subcontractor with its own margin. Delivery to Huntingdon goes through our logistics partners and shows as its own line on the quote. Put the two together and the total often comes in below a local fabricator, which is easy to check: send us the same drawing you've sent them.

Delivery and site visits in Huntingdon

How a job runs

1. 01.Send the drawing

   PDF or CAD, a dimensioned sketch, or a photo of the old part. Quantities and the site postcode help.

2. 02.Itemised quote in 24 hours

   Material, fabrication, finish and haulage broken out line by line, with the lead time confirmed in writing.

3. 03.Agree spec and finish

   Sections, tolerances, weld spec and finish confirmed before anything is cut.

4. 04.Fabricated inside our unit

   Cut, welded and assembled by coded welders in our 12,000 sq ft Marston Moretaine workshop.

5. 05.Check and paperwork

   Dimensionally checked before dispatch; welder qualification and mill certificates on request.

6. 06.Delivered to site

   We organise delivery to your site through our logistics partners, or you can collect from the yard if that suits. One-offs and batches both welcome.

Work we take on

• Container modifications: conversions and modifications to drawing, single units or batches
• Structural openings: side openings, doors, roller shutters, linking and cut-downs
• Container repairs: panel, door and rail repairs and repaints for depots and fleets
• Steel enclosures: generator, acoustic, plant and battery housings
• Skids and frames: skids, machine bases, lifting frames and supports
• Commercial fabrication: fabrication to drawing, structural steelwork, one-offs and batches
• Stairs and fire escapes: supplied ready for your installer to fit
• Walkways and railings: handrails, platforms and ladders, supplied to fit

Frequently asked questions

Nearby areas

We also quote for firms in St Neots, Cambridge, Peterborough, Bedford and King's Lynn. See every town on the areas we serve page.