Here’s everything you need to know about manufacturing with us in our Terms and Conditions of manufacturing:
We are focused on automated manufacturing rather than bespoke design projects, but we have lots of design partners to whom we can pass on your requests for other parts.
For certain bike parts like pedals, stems and chainrings, we have extensive experience in design and manufacturing, so we frequently design these parts for and alongside our clients. All we require is your design concepts and details around price-point and quality to meet your needs.
As a volume manufacturer we would recommend you use specialist prototyping agencies or job shops for pre-production work. There’s plenty of them out there and they specialise in that type of work. Infact alot of our work is manufacturing the production volumes for prototype shops when they cannot keep up!
The work involved in programming, tooling, proving out and machining a single part on our expensive high end machines means most parts end up at four figure prices, but if you want lots then these costs are spread over the batch and prices tumble.
Our high tech Matsuura machines are designed to manufacture lots of different parts simultaneously. This means we can easily schedule production to flex to your customer demand, without needing huge batch sizes. Our sweet spot is long term planned production where we can offer the economy of scale and flexibility at a pricepoint others cannot match.
It is easy to ramp up more volume when you need it, yet you dont get the cashflow hit of buying in huge one off production runs.
Rather than huge numbers of staff and machines to keep up with our workload, we use robots and automated pallet loaded machines to run 24/7/365. By running a spindle 24 hours a day rather than the 3-4 which is normal in the CNC industry, our complex machines offer surprisingly cost effective hourly rates.
Automation….
Metal costs the same worldwide so on complex parts where we can add value, its very possible to offer Asia competitive pricing. But don’t focus on the price, Think about the quality, leadtime and flexibility upgrades we can offer over your old supply chain.
Don’t presume… Get in contact and let us quote you happy!