Sheet metal components for the Lighting Industry
The lighting industry has its own particular requirements when it comes to the sheet metal materials that are commonly used. These materials may be special polished and pre-anodised reflector sheet aluminium used to either concentrate a field of light into a focused beam or to spread a light pattern over a large area with no obvious cut off shadow line. Having worked on many lighting projects over the last 3 decades we can aid you with your selection of reflector materials and hold many standard sheet metal types in stock. We also manufacture sheet metal work specifically for the lighting industry using a range of pre-painted mild steels for the fabrication of 2D gear trays, T5 and T8 fluorescent battens from 0.5mm thick and price sensitive reflectors. These sheet metal components have the advantage of reducing the total project lead time and quite often the cost of each fabricated lighting component. We always have a wide range of zintec in industry standard gauges which you can specify for many lighting components including lighting control gear boxes, chassis components, clamping brackets and as a good base material for external powder coated components e.g. under canopy light fittings.
Sheet metal components for the Lighting Industry
Having manufactured sheet metal work for UK based lighting companies since the early 1980s we have built up a vast range of CNC tooling which is ideally suited to manufacturing sheet metal parts without tooling costs. Initially we worked with local companies near to us in Fareham, Portsmouth and Southampton in Hampshire but as time has gone on we now supply sheet metal fabrications to lighting companies across the UK. Our CNC tooling library includes tooling for lamp holders, electrical conduit knock outs, banana tools to cut out 2D circular gear trays, taptite form tooling to form self tapping threads to eliminate masking when powder coating sheet metal work as well as all the standard slot and holes sizes you could need. For a better idea please take a look at our CNC punch press tooling tables.
It’s not just about having the correct CNC tooling but the experience of manufacturing hundreds of lighting projects which enables us to offer you free advice when it comes to which sheet metal material to choose, the best type of corner joints to stop light leak, the most appropriate fixings etc, these all equate to a real added value service for you when starting out on the design of a new light fitting needing to employ sheet metal fabrications.