A Hampshire based sheet metal fabrication engineering company producing sheet metal work and sheet metal fabrications for the Lighting, Heating, Audio and Electronics companies mainly in the UK.
We at V and F Sheet Metal are proud to be a stable family owned business now in its 2nd generation. Started in the family garage of Victor and Frances Frith in the early 1980’s it has now grown to a sheet metal fabrication company employing nearly 20 people in 10,000 sq ft of factory units on the Segensworth industrial estate, just outside Fareham, right on Junction 9 of the M27 in Hampshire. We also have several key members of staff who have been with us for over 20 years making a very knowledgeable and experienced loyal sheet metal fabrication engineering team. Vic’s experience before starting V and F Sheet Metal was focused on press work and press tooling using small fly presses up to 600 ton triple action deep draw hydraulic presses. This background has always allowed us to look at your sheet metal work designs with an eye to the best method of production whether that might be via the flexible CNC punching and CNC bending route or the mpre economical pressed tool route for higher batch volumes.
“As a company, we completely understand the importance of a quality supply chain, knowing our business can only ever be as good as its suppliers.
Having come across V & F Sheetmetal 12 months ago we now group them amongst our top five suppliers based on their reliability. We know if the parts are ordered from V & F, they are going to be made to specification and on time.”
Sub-Contract Manufacturing Management Company – East Midlands, 11th Jan 2012
In the early days most work was for one off sheet metal work projects and manufactured using basic manual sheet metal fabrication equipment such as a treadle guillotine, fly presses, pillar drills and welding equipment. A chance meeting led to a relationship manufacturing a vast range of sheet metal fabricated components for a newly formed Portsmouth, Hampshire based lighting company. This gave us the chance to invest in more productive sheet metal manufacturing equipment including our first CNC punch press the Rhodes Pierce-All Titan, LVD CNC press brake, power presses and more ancillary production equipment such as sheet metal working notchers, fly presses, rollers and Tig, Mig and spot welding equipment. Over time we have made contact with more customers in many industries and now have a customer base of several hundred regular companies based mainly in the UK but also in a few countries in Europe.
Once we had moved from Portsmouth to Segensworth, Fareham we steadily expanded with additional industrial units. This steady expansion gave us the space to invest in more CNC punching presses and CNC bending press brakes. We invested in a new Raskin CNC punch press with a 20 station turret and the ability to CNC punch 2m x 1m sheets without any re-positioning of the sheet metal. This was a big step forward for us and enabled us to efficiently manufacture larger sheet metal fabrication projects. Along side this investment we installed Radan software with 3D and CAD/CAM facilities. This software enabled us to communicate more efficiently with our customers and is still the best method used today. We have always had the support and latest version of Radan software to enable us to open our customer drawing files as they upgrade their CAD packages. With more CNC punching capacity came more CNC bending capacity with 2 new Edwards Pearson PR3 and PR6 CNC press brakes.
In the year 2000 we invested in a new Trumpf 200R CNC punch press and was immediately struck with how easy it was to set up and the added efficiency this gave us with increasingly smaller batches with UK based companies using KANBAN delivery systems and larger volumes being placed outside the UK. When the time was ready, in 2007 we invested in a new Trumpf 3000R CNC punch press which replaced the Raskin turret punch press. These 2 Trumpf CNC punching presses are now the 2 premier CNC punching machines with the bulk of our sheet metal work being processed through them.
We have always taken a longer term view to investment in our business and have continually invested in the latest sheet metal manufacturing plant and software, Trumpf playing a major part in our recent acquisitions, giving us access to the best manufacturing equipment in the UK sheet metal industry. A quick look through some of the pages on the website will show you the quality of the sheet metal fabrication manufacturing plant and the range and complexity of work we get involved in.
I hope you can spend just a few minutes to look over our website, it should will give you a better understanding of the services that are offered by V and F Sheet Metal and more generally assist you with the design and purchasing of your sheet metal fabrications.
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V and F Sheet Metal, Units 21-25 Mitchell Close, Segensworth East, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5SE
