Sheet metal fabrication is the process of turning flat sheets of steel or aluminium into metal structures or products, by cutting, punching, folding and assembling.
Metal laser cutting technology at James C Gillespie offers some of the most innovative, accurate and precise cutting techniques available in the industry today. CNC laser cutting allows our team to use CAD computer systems to guide high-powered laser beams and achieve the most exceptional levels of cutting detail on a broad range of materials.
In laser cutting, high-powered light beams are reflected and focussed into a finely tuned laser head that cuts through the material to very high tolerances. Laser cutting not only results in a fast, efficient operation but also leaves crisp edges and a high-quality surface finish that requires less cleaning.
Our laser cutting department has two Trumpf Lasers (4KW/5KW) machines that offer high flexibility, precision accuracy and excellent, cost-effective metal cutting operations. High-level laser cutting machine dynamics and a large number of timesaving options and innovations give us the capacity to produce any number of metal components in the most cost-effective and efficient way.
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) punching plays a significant role in sheet metal manufacturing at James C Gillespie, delivering high accuracy, speed and competitively priced manufactured metal and non metal components and parts to customers in the UK and all over the world.
Our CNC Trumpf 3000R can punch many shapes from simple round, rectangle or square holes to more technical punching such as countersinking, dimples, knockouts and louvres that increases our flexibility in sheet metal components.
We currently weld aluminium, mild steel and stainless steel materials as part of our manufacturing process for our sheet metal products. Our skilled welders have good grounding in MIG welding, TIG welding and spot welding on an array of sheet metal product types incorporating many material thicknesses.
The products we manufacture have high visual impact and therefore our welding is matched to this. Not only strong mechanically, welded joints are polished and cleaned where necessary to enhance visual appearance.
We also have a robotic welding cell capable of MIG welding. The robot has the advantage of consistent repeatable welds with quicker process times and is able to weld complicated shapes and curves.
We also have Coded welding certifications EN ISO 9606-1 2017, EN ISO15614-2
Sheet Metal
Sheet metal fabrication is the process of turning flat sheets of steel or aluminium into metal structures or products, by cutting, punching, folding and assembling.
CNC Laser Cutting
Metal laser cutting technology at James C Gillespie offers some of the most innovative, accurate and precise cutting techniques available in the industry today. CNC laser cutting allows our team to use CAD computer systems to guide high-powered laser beams and achieve the most exceptional levels of cutting detail on a broad range of materials.
In laser cutting, high-powered light beams are reflected and focussed into a finely tuned laser head that cuts through the material to very high tolerances. Laser cutting not only results in a fast, efficient operation but also leaves crisp edges and a high-quality surface finish that requires less cleaning.
Our laser cutting department has two Trumpf Lasers (4KW/5KW) machines that offer high flexibility, precision accuracy and excellent, cost-effective metal cutting operations. High-level laser cutting machine dynamics and a large number of timesaving options and innovations give us the capacity to produce any number of metal components in the most cost-effective and efficient way.
CNC Punching
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) punching plays a significant role in sheet metal manufacturing at James C Gillespie, delivering high accuracy, speed and competitively priced manufactured metal and non metal components and parts to customers in the UK and all over the world.
Our CNC Trumpf 3000R can punch many shapes from simple round, rectangle or square holes to more technical punching such as countersinking, dimples, knockouts and louvres that increases our flexibility in sheet metal components.
Welding / Fabrication
We currently weld aluminium, mild steel and stainless steel materials as part of our manufacturing process for our sheet metal products. Our skilled welders have good grounding in MIG welding, TIG welding and spot welding on an array of sheet metal product types incorporating many material thicknesses.
The products we manufacture have high visual impact and therefore our welding is matched to this. Not only strong mechanically, welded joints are polished and cleaned where necessary to enhance visual appearance.
We also have a robotic welding cell capable of MIG welding. The robot has the advantage of consistent repeatable welds with quicker process times and is able to weld complicated shapes and curves.
We also have Coded welding certifications EN ISO 9606-1 2017, EN ISO15614-2