Sheet Metal Fabrication & Forming

For over 45 years Chasestead has been providing prototype engineering & low volume production sheet metal services. We pride ourselves on giving you excellent customer service, with fast response to solving your queries and supplying your parts in very short lead times.

	General fabrication We work for a variety of Industries making anything from simple brackets to large complex assemblies.		Sheet metal folding & pressing With presses from 25 to 800 tons we are able to cater for components varying from the most simple to large complex pressings
	Automotive With Over 45 Years experience, Chasestead are experts in producing prototypes & low volume production parts.		Laser cutting We have the capability to cut flatbed blanks and five axis preformed components.
	Marine We produce a range of stainless steel & aluminium components for marine applications.		Tool making & machining With our 3D CAD facilities and our CNC machining centres, complete tool design and manufacture is done on site.
	Aerospace / Defence Chasestead is an approved supplier for various aerospace MOD and NATO products.		CNC Tube forming Recently purchased, our CNC Slalom tube forming machine is one of the first to be operational in this country
	Quality / Inspection As one of the first BS EN ISO 9001:2000 approved companies we pride ourselves on our quality system and its benefits to you. We provide Sub-contract Inspection services using our automated CMM to CAD or Drawing.		Robotic welding & assembly Whether it’s working to production intent or optimizing build times, our six robot cells ensure speed & repeatability

Recent News

A small snippet of some or our most recent news
- Detroit Motor Show 2012: Ford Fusion/Mondeo
  Detroit Motor Show 2012: Ford Fusion/Mondeo Ford takes the wraps off what will become the next generation Mondeo at the Detroit Motor Show. By Andrew English Hark, is that a phone ringing? That’ll be Uli Bez, Aston Martin’s chief executive, with a complaint about the uncanny resemblance to an Aston evident in the grille design for Ford’s new Mondeo/Fusion, which goes on sale this year in America and April 2013 in the UK and is [...]
- Britain’s named its Car of the Decade – and the winner is the Jaguar XF!
  Car of the Decade: Jaguar XF That’s the model which has generated the highest satisfaction rating among more than 300,000 Auto Express readers, with an overall score of almost 91 per cent in its Driver Power survey. That means the executive saloon scored highly in each category assessed in the motoring magazine’s poll, which asks owners to rate reliability, build quality, running costs, performance, braking, ride quality, handling, practicality, comfort and ease of driving. Premium [...]
- Renewable energy
  Renewable energy consumption surpasses nuclear under News August 17th, 2011 by IFandP Newsroom Consumption of energy produced from renewable resources surpassed its nuclear counterpart for the first time as nuclear outages coincided with the high-water season for hydropower generation, according to the US Energy Information Administration. In March, renewables had reached 795tnBtu while nuclear power delivered 687tnBtu, a trend that continued in April when figures stood at 798tnBtu and 571tnBtu, respectively. Record-breaking snowfall in the [...]