Expert Metal Spinning Specialists Since 1984

Metal spinning also known as spin forming is a cost-effective process used to form conical, hemispherical, and cylindrical shapes. A starting blank (flat disk) is spun over a tool in a series of sweeps by a forming roller, the metal is progressively shaped onto the tooling to produce the desired shape, producing the finished part.

In general, metal spinning offers flexibility with low tooling costs and is widely used for either low or high-volume production. Depending on the application, spinning can offer major benefits which often makes it an ideal choice.

Tanfield Metal Spinners will quote for work up to a radius of 2.4 meters 10mm thick. We also partner with an international spinning company for anything above Tanfield’s current capabilities.

Our technical engineering department will supply a drawing on your request for a quote, at no additional cost, which can be signed off before order.

All parts manufactured from Tanfield will have full traceability, all materials that require certification will be automatically sent to our customers on completion of the order.

The following materials can all be spun. If your project requires a different metal, we can work with many more specialist materials, however these will typically require heat (annealing) to meet your specifications.

Aluminium
Brass
Carbon Steel
Copper
Corten
Duplex
Hastelloy Alloys
Mu-metal
Nimonic
Nirosta
Silver
Stainless Steel
Titanium
Zintec

Tanfield prides itself on maintaining a 3–4-week lead time where possible, if tooling is required this can extend the lead times.

Tanfield’s standard tooling stock is the largest in the country and we invest in it on a yearly basis.

If your project requires new tooling Tanfield will look at the most cost-effective way to service our customer’s needs.

Delivery is always a next day service; this can be upgraded to before 12 at an extra cost.

Metal spinning (sheet metal spinning) is a cost-effective way to form round, conical and hemispherical parts with low tooling cost compared with deep drawing or heavy pressing. As a UK metal spinner, Tanfield Metal Spinners uses automated spinning for both short runs and volume work, with tight control of wall thickness and a wide standard tooling range. Typical advantages include short lead times, material flexibility (including stainless steel) and the ability to produce dished ends, cones and tank heads without dedicated press tools for every profile. Spinning is less suited to sharp-cornered or heavily non-round geometries; those jobs are better served by our metal pressing or fabrication routes.

Yes. Tanfield Metal Spinners manufactures dished ends and tank dished ends for pressure vessels and storage tanks, including stainless steel dished tank heads. We produce common dished end types, ellipsoidal (elliptical) dish ends, torispherical dish ends, hemispherical dish ends, and flanged and dished heads — as a UK dished end manufacturer. Profiles can be specified to customer drawings or industry practice (including ASME tank head / ASME dished head requirements where those apply). In-house spinning, metal pressing, fabrication and welding, plus finishing, keep the part in one place from blank to finished head.

anfield Metal Spinners is a family-supported metal spinning UK manufacturer in Washington, Tyne and Wear (North East England), serving customers nationwide and close to Newcastle upon Tyne. Alongside automated metal spinning we offer metal pressing (hydraulic press up to 350 tons), metal fabrication and welding, precision engineering, metal polishing and finishing, anodising, electropolishing, pickling and passivating, machining and laser cutting — so agricultural, automotive and industrial metal spinning jobs can include pressed plates, fabricated assemblies and finished surfaces from one supplier.