In just 3 weeks, we've sent our fabrication members almost £20M worth of new business enquiries

January Fabrication Project Round Up:

  • We've generated 87 projects...
  • from 64 different UK manufacturers
  • across a variety of industries such as Oil & GasMedicalAerospace and more.
  • These buyers have a combined fabrication spend of £19.7M.
  • and a combined total outsourcing spend £45.2M

The latest Qimtek Contract Manufacturing Index figures show that the market for contract and subcontract manufacturing was up by 12% in 2016 compared to the previous year, with 41% of the entire market made up by fabrication services.  In 2016 we produced 75 fabrication projects from 52 different UK buyers. This sees projects up 14% and the amount of buyers using Qimtek up 12% year on year. 

Finding the right suppliers can be time-consuming. Qimtek have been actively helping buyers for over 23 years, connect with relevant UK suppliers, saving you not only time, but money and hassle! What’s more our service is completely free to industry buyers. Here are a few examples of enquiries we sent out in January: 

Sheet metal specialists are asked to quote for production of stainless steel frames.
Complete Manufacture – Large batch
£1,250,000 Fabrication Spend
Ongoing requirement

Buyer seeking manufacturing supplier for Fabrication
General Sheet Metal Under 6mm – Small batch
£250,000 Fabrication Spend
Ongoing requirement

Urgent sheet metal requirement from a buyer with an £800k annual fabrication spend 
Complete Manufacture – Large batch
£800,000 Fabrication Spend
Ongoing requirement

OEM buyer seeks the urgent assistance of a company with dual fabrication and machining capabilities
Complete Manufacture – Low batch
£620,000 Fabrication Spend
Urgent requirement
Ongoing requirement - 2 sets per month

Qimtek provides a steady stream of enquiries for UK subcontract engineers. Winning an initial project however, is just the first step towards securing future and repeat work. The long term goal is to nurturing the initial order and new business relationship, into a long term customer who will continue to provide you enquiries directly going forward. Here are a few examples of fabrication projects awarded to our members in January:

Furniture specialist seeks fabrication supplier for two new designs.
General Sheet under 6mm
£9,000 Initial order value
One Off requirement only
Buyers annual fabrication spend: £100,000

Qimtek member seeks the assistance of a profiling supplier.
Laser Cutting
£2,500 Initial order value 
Ongoing requirement
Buyers annual fabrication spend: £30,000

Suppliers with fabrication and machining capabilities are asked to quote for a slotting table.
Complete Manufacture
£9,000 Initial order value
One off requirement with scope to assist on other projects in the future
Buyers annual fabrication spend: £ Unknown

Supplier needed for a repeatable order of plates and hangers
Complete Manufacture
£2,500 Initial order value
Ongoing requirement
Buyers annual fabrication spend: £200,000
 

If you would like to discuss how Qimtek can help your business generate enquiries, please call us on 01256 394 500.