Metal Fabrication

Buy Metal Online provides a full metal fabrication service to all customers. From your initial design to the finished item, our team is with you every step of the way and will do everything they can to ensure the end product is exactly how you imagined.

Our skilled staff are experts in metal. From cutting, welding, shaping and fabrication, if it’s made of metal, we can make it happen.

Specialist metal fabrication

Do you need metal fabricated for a large project? We can help!

Our flexible approach and skilled metalworkers can produce unique metal products for your large project!

Simply prepare the design, contact our team and we’ll do the rest!

Bespoke fabrication

Buy Metal Online sources metals from high quality suppliers from across the UK. Our internal team of expert fabricators can turn any sketch, CAD or CAM design into reality using industry standard tools and techniques.

We regularly work with architects, interior designers, landscape gardeners, artists, commercial and product designers to deliver bespoke metal products for internal or external use.

Contact one of our team to discuss your needs!

Metal Fabrication FAQs

What types of items can be produced?

Buy Metal Online are able to source the materials and fabricate anything made from any kind of metal. For example, we create large metal planters for landscapers and architects. We have also fabricated metal frames, stands and shelving for shopfitters.

Other items include metal wall panels, metal trim, splashbacks, metal cabinets, frames, shelters, gates, canopies, grilles, metal railings and more.

What metal fabrication services are available?

We offer full fabrication of the items from sketch to finished products. That includes materials processing, shaping, cutting and finishing. Everything you need to create bespoke pieces or unique designs.

Our team has vast experience in product design, manufacture and fabrication. We source our metal from a range of high-quality producers so quality is guaranteed.

What volumes can be produced?

As all metal fabrication is done by hand, everything we do will be unique.

We appreciate that designers, decorators, architects and other creatives can struggle to find a metal fabricator that can reliably provide products.

That’s a niche we want to fill.

Who is your metal fabrication service for?

Buy Metal Online regularly works with shopfitters, architects, interior designers, commercial space designers, landscapers and other creative professionals.

We can take an initial design and turn it into reality, which is why we count all those professions as clients.

What types of metal can you fabricate?

We can fabricate using any type of metal. Mild steel is the most popular but we can work with Corten steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass, aged metals and specialist steels depending on the type of products you want.

What types of items do you use for fabrication?

Common metal types we fabricate from include metal tubes, sheet, plate, channels, beams, columns, hollow sections, flat bars, angles, rounds, tees, convex flats, squares, half rounds, hexagons, octagons, rounds, bright, z-shapes, steel profiles, weld mesh, reinforcing bars and reinforcing mesh.

If it’s made of metal and can be fabricated, we can use it. If you have specific requirements that aren’t mentioned here, just ask!

What information do you need to be able to fabricate a product?

We can work with a sketch, CAD, CAM and other designs. We work with you in whatever form you‘re most comfortable with and will convert almost any format into usable instructions for our fabrication processes.

As long as you can provide the dimensions, shape, desired material, desired finish and timescale, we can take care of the rest.

What types of finishing are available?

Buy Metal Online are expert metal finishers as well as metal fabricators. We can provide a range of metal finishes including powder coating, wet coating, dull polish, mirror polish, shot blasting and primed finished.

If you need something specific, contact one of the team to discuss your needs.

Can you laser cut fabricated items?

Laser cutting is available for metal sheets. Laser cutting is just one of many fabrication methods we use to build bespoke creations and while precise, it isn’t the only way to cut metal into shape.

What’s the lead time on metal fabrication?

The lead time depends entirely on the size, scope and complexity of the project. We have a steady supply of steel so we can work quickly to design and fabricate your item.

As all products are made by hand, to order, lead times can vary a lot. We ask that you contact us with an idea of what you’re looking for so we can provide an accurate estimate of cost and lead time.