A flat part isn't a finished part. This is where it becomes one.
Sheet metal has been the family trade since 1979 — Martin started on the shop floor at 14 in his father's business. Bolton Sheetmetal Ltd has carried the craft forward since 2011. Cutting and punching produce a flat blank. Almost nothing ships flat. Bending is the operation that turns a profile into a bracket, an enclosure, a chassis — and doing it in-house, right after the laser or punch, is the difference between one quote and a chain of subcontractors.
We run two CNC press brakes: a 100-tonne Amada HFE for length and capacity, and a new full-servo-electric RSM EP-3512 — a 6-axis brake holding ±0.01mm at the beam for precise, repeatable work. Between them we fold up to 3m and mild steel to 8mm, with a comprehensive segmented tooling set (V8 through V63 dies, gooseneck and standard punches) for tight returns and awkward profiles. Two brakes means capacity when you need it and a fallback when a machine's tied up — your job isn't stuck behind one queue. Setups are programmed and simulated offline in Radan Radbend before a brake runs, so the bend sequence and tooling are proven on screen — fewer first-off errors, tighter repeatability across a run.
Whether it's a single folded bracket or a production run of enclosures cut, punched, folded and welded as one job, the workflow stays under this roof from drawing check to despatch.
