Dutton Engineering (Woodside) Ltd – ISO 9001 Certified Fabrication and Machining Services Services in Bedfordshire
Manufacturing Capabilities
Services
- Drilling
- Milling, Low Volume
- Tapping
- Machining with Fabrication
- Laser cutting, tube
- Cleaning
- Guillotine
- Nibbling
- Flame Cutting
- General Sheet Metal (2mm to 6mm)
- Roll Bending
- Rolling
- Tube Bending & Manipulation
- Perforation
- Laser welding
- Roll Forming
- Fine Limit Sheet Metal (up to 2mm)
- Pipework
- Pressure & Vacuum Vessels
- Heavy Sheet Metal (6mm+)
- Light Fabrication (under a tonne)
- Brazing
- Robotic Welding
- Shot Blasting
- Laserfinishing
- CNC Machining, Low Volume
- Laser Cutting
- Plasma Cutting
- Water Cutting
- Punching
- Press brake work
- Mig
- Tig
- Arc
- Onsite
- General Fabrication (over 1 tonne)
- Enclosures
- Design
- Design, CAD
- Drafting Services
- Rapid Prototyping
- Programming Services
- Saw Cutting
- Fabrication with Machining
- Prototyping
- Architectural Steelwork
- General Heavy Fabrication 15mm Plus
- Assembly
- Packaging
Materials
- Copper
- Brass
- Mild Steel
- Bronze
- Hi Temp Exotic Alloys
- Tool Steel
- Stainless Steel
- Plastic
- Titanium
- Aluminium
Approvals
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- EN 1090
About Dutton Engineering (Woodside) Ltd
ISO 9001 & CE Approved Sheet Metal Specialists, Sandy
Dutton Engineerng (Woodside)Limited is a subcontract sheet metal working company, based in Sandy in Bedfordshire and currently employing 50 people. Dutton specialises in the fabrication of stainless steel, mild steel and aluminium. It offers a full design to manufacture service, and production of prototypes, small batches and volume production.
The company was founded in 1972 in Luton in Bedfordshire and serviced the growing electronic industries throughout the 70's, and moved to its present purpose built factory in Sandy in 1980. Dutton was awarded BS5750 Part 2 in 1984, and was one of the early companies to receive this certification. In the 80's the company developed specialist skills in developing stainless steel housings for the electronics industry. In 1988 the company was approved to ISO9002 part 2. Dutton is a key Member of the British Quality Foundation and uses the EFQM model to help drive its continuous improvement programme.
Dutton Engineering has a high level of commitment to achieving world class standards, and has been on its journey to excellence since 1989. The company began with training in Total Quality, involvement of the workforce in Kaizen(Continuous Improvement), and developing partnerships with customers and suppliers. The culture has moved from a very traditional organisation to a very flat structure based around teams, with a high level of personal empowerment.
Dutton's achievements have been recognised by the DTI's Department of Trade and Industry, when they recruited Dutton as a Host Company to the Inside UK Enterprise Scheme. The company won the Wedgwood trophy in 1994, and the 'Best SME' award in 1996 also award for outstanding achievment 2002. Its most recent award was the 'KPMG Anglia Enterprise' award for 'Motivation'.
In 1997 Dutton launched a training division 'Business Excellence Training', which offers a full range of training and assistance to companies looking to improve their performance and adopt best practice.
