Metal Spinning
Bespoke Metal Spinning
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Anodising, Electropolishing and Pickling & Passivating
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SafetyBespoke Metal Spinning
Our Custom Metal Spinning Process
Tanfield’s bespoke metal spinning process starts with a thorough debrief of the initial design. That lets Tanfield Metal Spinners, a metal spinning UK manufacturer, allocate resources correctly and keep custom metal parts within quality control and the regulations that apply to the job, including tank dished ends and other spun components for agricultural and automotive work.
The design then passes to our expert sheet metal spinning team. From there the Tanfield metal spinning process is followed to the same standard of quality and control, whether the part is a one-off prototype or a production run.
If you don’t have a drawing, our technical engineering department will supply one with your quote, at no extra cost. That drawing can be signed off before you place an order.
Bespoke Metal Spinning Applications
As commercial metal spinning UK specialists, we aim to meet the brief whatever the sector. Tanfield Metal Spinners forms a wide range of bespoke metal spun components and custom metal parts, from tank dish ends and pressure vessel heads to cones, covers and housings.
That includes demanding work such as cryogenics, where our sheet metal spinning team works to tight tolerances. We also produce agricultural metal spinning and automotive metal spinning parts, plus bespoke spun products for safety, agriculture, air movement, playground and food industry businesses.
Expertise
We believe that collaboration is key! That’s why we work closely with you to ensure that we provide solutions tailored to your unique needs and requirements.
No drawing? No problem, our expert team will provide one free of charge.
Flexibility
Since 1984 we’ve built an enviable first-class reputation based on the highest quality workmanship with the best advice available on metal thickness and tolerance levels.
We have an open-minded approach to satisfying our customers engineering needs.
Responsive
We pride ourselves on deeply understanding our customers’ needs quickly and effectively. 90% of our quotes are provided within 24 hours.
We take great pride in our excellent on time deliver performance, helping our customers projects run on time, every time.
Competitive
With our large range of fully automatic spinning lathes, in our 35,000 sq-ft facility, you can be assured of receiving the best solution for your application, along with the very best lifetime value.
We are very proud to say we are a 100% ‘made in Great Britain’ manufacturer.
Top things we get asked
Bespoke metal spinning is the custom manufacturing of metal by spinning sheet metal into specific shapes tailored to client needs. Tanfield adapts to your project’s exact specifications. You have access to metal spinning services that are entirely unique to your organisation and purpose, when you work with our team. We use our expertise to consider which materials and processes will produce the best results for your project.
The following materials can all be spun. If your project requires a different metal, we can work with many more specialist materials. Tanfield has the capabilities necessary to perform and make adjustments in our metal spinning process to accommodate a wide range of materials including:
- Aluminium
- Brass
- Carbon Steel
- Copper
- Corten
- Duplex
- Hastelloy Alloys
- Inconel
- Mu-metal
- Nimonic
- Nirosta
- Silver
- Stainless Steel
- Titanium
- Zintec
Tanfield serves a variety of industries that require high-quality, precise metal fabrication. These include sectors such as agriculture, air movement, renewable energy, safety, pressure vessels, food industry, and playground. Tanfield offers versatile services, including metal spinning, swaging, and machining, to meet the range of needs of each sector.
There is a great deal of flexibility when it comes to what can be achieved with metal finishings. Tanfield offers the finishings:
- Polishing
- Electropolish
- Anodising
- Pickling & Passivating
Our metal spinners might recommend a certain type of finishing be applied to your metal spun parts. Although this will add time and a slight extra expense, this is done solely to help you get the best outcome for your project. Equally, we won’t be afraid to tell you when using a metal polisher is unnecessary.
Tanfield Metal spinners will quote for work up to a radius of 2.4 meters and material thickness of up to 10mm. For projects that require anything above contact us.
If you do not have a drawing, our technical engineering department will supply a drawing upon your request for a quote, at no additional cost. This drawing can be signed off before placing an order.
Yes. Our bespoke metal spinning services are suitable for one-off prototypes, small batch work, and repeat production runs. We tailor the metal spinning process and tooling approach to suit your required volumes and lead times.
Tolerances depend on material type, diameter, and wall thickness, but our experienced spinners work to tight, industry-appropriate tolerances. We also provide guidance early in the process to ensure your design is optimised for manufacture.
All bespoke metal spun components are produced under strict quality control procedures, with full material traceability available. This is particularly important for regulated industries such as pressure vessels, food processing, and cryogenics.
Absolutely. Our engineering team regularly reviews designs to suggest improvements that enhance performance, reduce cost, or improve manufacturability. This collaborative approach ensures the metal spinning process delivers the best possible outcome for your application.
Bespoke metal spinning is often chosen because tooling costs are lower than deep drawing or dedicated press tools, and designs can change without a full tool rebuild. Tanfield Metal Spinners uses automated sheet metal spinning for prototypes and production, with good control of wall thickness and a large standard tooling range in the UK. Typical advantages include short lead times, material choice (including stainless steel) and the ability to form custom metal parts such as cones, covers and tank dished ends as one-piece spun shapes. Spinning is less suitable for sharp-cornered or heavily non-round parts; those are better handled by metal pressing or fabrication. Read more on the metal spinning process.
Yes. Many bespoke jobs are dished ends and tank heads for pressure vessels and storage tanks, including stainless steel dished tank heads. As a UK dished end manufacturer, we produce common profiles, ellipsoidal (elliptical) dish ends, torispherical dish ends, hemispherical dish ends, and flanged and dished heads, to customer drawings or specified practice, including ASME tank head / ASME dished head requirements where those apply. Spinning can be combined with pressing, fabrication and welding, and finishing so the head is completed in-house.