Services
A 3D printing workshop in Folkestone, Kent working with businesses across the county: light industry, product designers, retail and hospitality, the marine trade around the harbours and engineering firms near the tunnel terminal.
What we do
They overlap in practice. A prototype becomes a batch, a batch produces a jig, a broken part becomes a design job. You do not need to pick the right label: describe the problem and we will tell you which route is cheapest.
Hold the revision before you commit to tooling, a supplier or a production run. First iteration on the plate within one working day of the file arriving.
For Product designers, design engineers and technical directors who have a CAD model and a decision waiting on a physical part.
Repeat runs of ten to two hundred identical parts from one held file, with no tooling bill and a per-unit price that steps down at 5, 10, 25 and 50 units. Small-batch 3D printing for UK businesses, printed in Kent and posted anywhere.
For Product businesses, small manufacturers and operations managers who need tens or hundreds of a part on a schedule they control.
Drill guides, assembly fixtures, alignment jigs, gauges and mounts, made to the dimensions of your bench rather than to a catalogue's.
For Production and maintenance managers, workshop leads and assembly teams who need tooling that fits their process exactly.
The component that failed on a machine the manufacturer stopped supporting. Measured with callipers, corrected where the original was weak, and reprinted.
For Maintenance engineers, facilities teams, repairers and anyone keeping older equipment in service without OEM support.
For businesses with an idea, a sketch or a sample but no model. £42 per hour, quoted against an estimate before work starts, and you own the files.
For Businesses with a product idea, a sample or a drawing and no CAD capability in house.
Which one do I need?
| If this is where you are | Start here |
|---|---|
| A design decision is waiting on a physical part | Rapid prototyping |
| You need tens or hundreds of a part you already have a file for | Small-batch production |
| An operation on your bench takes longer than it should | Jigs, fixtures & tooling |
| A machine is down because a plastic part failed and is obsolete | One-off & replacement parts |
| You have an idea, a sketch or a sample and no CAD file | 3D design & CAD |
Working with us
You deal with the person who prints your part. There is no account manager relaying a question to a workshop and a workshop relaying an answer back, which is why a design question asked at nine is usually answered before lunch rather than in two working days.
Every job is invoiced, with your purchase order number carried onto it. We are not VAT registered, so the quoted figure is the invoiced figure. New customers settle on completion; account customers work to 14-day terms.
Print settings are recorded against your job: material, colour, layer height, wall count, infill, orientation, so a reorder six months later is printed from the same recipe rather than approximated. That is what makes a repeat order a repeat rather than a new experiment.
Capacity grows with demand. If a job needs more machine hours than the workshop currently has, you will be told the real date rather than an optimistic one, and the answer to sustained demand is another machine rather than a longer queue.
Turning work down costs us one job. Taking work we cannot do properly costs us the customer.
The specification page has the build envelope, tolerances, layer heights, accepted file formats, lead times, batch limits and confidentiality terms in one place: the figures a buyer checks before spending time on an enquiry.
Next step
If you have geometry, the estimate takes about a minute and your file is measured in your browser rather than uploaded. If you do not, describe the part and you will get a considered answer from the person who would print it.
Instant estimate. We confirm the price once we've sliced your file.