Core engineering and metalworking capability from Van Driel and the wider group, plus specialist UK manufacturing processes through trusted partners when the job needs them.
Start with the requirement
You do not need to choose the process first
A drawing can go straight to manufacture. A failed or obsolete component, sketch or unresolved requirement can start with engineering consultancy and become a manufacturing scope once the right route is defined.
The first seven capabilities are available directly through Van Driel and the wider group. Specialist Manufacturing extends the route through established UK manufacturing partners where the job requires it.
Injection and insert moulding, precision metal pressing, tooling, specialist turning, assembly and test capability through trusted UK partners.
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Extended manufacturing capability
More manufacturing routes when the job needs them
Through established UK manufacturing partners, Van Driel can incorporate plastic injection moulding, insert moulding, precision metal pressing, tool making, specialist turning, product assembly and related processes into a coordinated manufacturing scope.
That can include moulded or pressed components, tooling, specialist turning, electromechanical assembly and electrical component integration. Where a partner process is required, we make that clear and coordinate it as part of the agreed route rather than implying the equipment sits at East Harling.
Turned components, including parts used as moulding inserts
Assembly
Electromechanical and complete product assembly
Specialist production
Electrical component integration, high-speed pin and terminal insertion, and automated test equipment including leak decay and flow rate
Process
How a job runs
Enquiry and drawing review
Send a drawing, a sketch, a photograph or a description. We accept DXF, DWG, PDF, STEP and IGES. An engineer reads the enquiry, not a form-handler, and comes back with questions where the intent is ambiguous rather than quoting round a gap.
Quotation
A written quotation covering scope, material specification, finish, delivery route and lead time. Where a job would be better and cheaper made a different way, we say so at this stage rather than after the material is cut.
Design and preparation
Where the enquiry is a concept rather than a drawing, we develop it to manufacturing intent and agree it with you before any material is cut. Nesting, cutting lists and weld procedures are prepared from the approved information.
Manufacture
Profiling, forming, machining, welding and assembly. Work in progress is checked against the approved drawing at the points where an error would become expensive to unpick, not only at the end.
Inspection and finish
Dimensional check against the drawing, weld visual inspection, and finishing to the agreed specification. Independent testing, coating and galvanising are arranged through established supply-chain partners where a specification calls for them.
Delivery or installation
Packed and delivered to your works or site, or installed at your premises by our own team where the scope requires it.
Get a written quotation
Send drawings or a description of the requirement. An engineer reviews every enquiry, not a form-handler, and comes back with questions where the intent is ambiguous.
