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Daventry Metal Products
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Laser Cutting
We provide efficient high-volume and intricate low-volume laser cutting services to esteemed OEMs throughout the UK. Our Bystronic fibre laser cutting system is operated by skilled professionals who ensure high-precision cuts with consistent results.
Bending & Forming
DMP employs a comprehensive range of bending and forming technologies, supported by advanced process expertise, to produce both flat and cylindrical metal components. By seamlessly integrating forming operations with both upstream and downstream processes, we guarantee an efficient production flow, minimal variation, and reduced process risk.
Welding & Fabrication
DMP offers welding services that include MIG/MAG, TIG, GAS, and ARC/STICK in line with the coded welding standard and, where necessary, in compliance with the Pressure Equipment Directive. Our unique combination of automated processes and skilled manual craftsmanship enables us to manage both high- and low-volume projects, as well as bespoke fabrications where precision is crucial. We oversee every aspect of the process in-house, ensuring complete accountability for quality and timely delivery.
Machining & Finishing
Our team of in-house specialists integrates seamlessly into our comprehensive fabrication processes, ensuring precise tolerance control, consistent accuracy, and dependable performance throughout the entire manufacturing operation.
Brazing & Resistance Welding
We provide both manual and automated brazing services, alongside resistance welding techniques, including spot, projection, and stud welding. Our methods are backed by stringent quality assurance checks throughout the entire production process, ensuring consistent results and significantly reducing the risk of defects.
Surface Treatment & Finishing
Through our network of trusted partners, we provide a wide array of surface treatment and finishing solutions, including e-coating, powder coating, wet spray, and plating, all in compliance with functional and regulatory specifications. These surface treatments guarantee that components meet the necessary standards and are delivered primed for assembly or final use.
Quality Control & Testing
We utilise a range of inspection and testing methods on our components, including dye penetrant testing, air-pressure decay testing, hydrostatic testing, and various performance or integrity assessments. These rigorous tests ensure complete traceability and adherence to compliance standards, particularly in highly regulated or safety-critical sectors.
Project Management
For more than fifty years, we have offered clear and structured project management services for engineering projects, delivering solutions with certainty and accountability. We manage every aspect, from initial planning to the successful completion of your project.
Prototyping
Enhance your product’s final design with our expert prototyping services. We transform existing concepts—be it from sketches, design discussions, or an existing product requiring reverse engineering—into a physical prototype that complies meticulously with regulations and specifications.
Design for Manufacture
By merging practical manufacturing expertise with engineering insight, our specialists can assist in identifying opportunities within your prototypes or early concepts. This collaboration aims to enhance performance, reduce production complexity, minimise waste, and lower long-term manufacturing costs.
Tooling Design & Manufacture
By combining practical manufacturing expertise with engineering insight, our specialists can help identify opportunities with your prototypes or early concepts to improve performance, reduce production complexity, minimise waste, and lower long-term manufacturing costs.
Case Studies: Solving Precision Challenges in Multi-Process Parts
This case study details how DMP identified and resolved a complex quality control challenge in a crucial fabricated component used within a high-power transmission sub-assembly. By pinpointing fixturing and weld sequencing as significant factors contributing to inconsistencies, we successfully eradicated a 30% failure rate and established a stable, repeatable process.
Markets: Power Generation
In the power generation sector, components must perform reliably under demanding conditions. That’s why we specialise in the manufacturing of sheet metal parts, fabricated structures, and intricate assemblies designed for such environments. Our commitment to precision, traceability, and stringent quality control ensures that our products meet the highest industry standards.
Markets: Off Highway & Construction
The off-highway and construction industries require manufacturing partners that can meet stringent performance standards and endure demanding operating conditions. With decades of experience in the sector, we have positioned ourselves as a reliable supplier for some of the globe's foremost construction and heavy equipment manufacturers.
Markets: Automotive
Utilising materials such as aluminium, steel, and stainless steel, we produce a wide range of components from chassis structures and brackets to intricate fabricated assemblies for the automotive industry. Our engineering team works hand in hand with clients throughout the entire process, ensuring that each component is designed with functionality, manufacturability, and regulatory compliance as top priorities.
Markets: Medical
For more than 50 years, we have been providing sheet metal, fabricated assemblies, and engineered products to clients in the medical sector. Our team of specialists employs state-of-the-art technology to manufacture autoclaves, frames, enclosures, and a variety of other solutions tailored for the healthcare industry.
Markets: Rail
Our engineers provide essential manufactured components for the underground sector, catering to prominent rail operators and organisations. With over 50 years of expertise, our products establish the benchmark for durability, traceability, and quality.
Markets: Oil & Gas
Our expertise in the oil & gas sector encompasses the design, manufacture, and testing of structural fabrications, enclosures, brackets, and intricate assemblies. Our skilled engineers provide components that are assured to operate effectively under high pressure, extreme temperatures, and corrosive environments.
Markets: Mining
Durable, precision-engineered metal components designed for harsh operating environments necessitate robust manufacturing processes and consistent quality standards. Our proven production methods focus on reliability, continuous improvement, and precision at every stage, ensuring we deliver components that excel in demanding mining applications.
Markets: Defence
Our engineers provide reliable manufacturing solutions that underpin vital defence programmes by integrating technical and regulatory expertise, robust quality assurance, and a collaborative, partnership-focused approach.
About us
Established in 1974, Daventry Metal Products (DMP) began by producing high-quality engineered components for diverse industries and has continued to grow through strategic acquisitions and ongoing expansion.
DMP started with production and reclamation welding before expanding into the supply of precision-fabricated metal products for industries such as automotive, agriculture, commercial vehicles, power generation, and general engineering.
DMP has transitioned from producing components for its original customer base to becoming a world-class Tier One supplier to leading OEMs.
Our Products & Services Include:
Sheet Metal
DMP have a wealth of experience producing a variety of sheet metal products for industries such as the automotive, medical, power generation, off highway & Marine markets. DMP maintain a best in class sheet metal processing facility, able to produce products in a short lead time at a commercially competitive level. This level of service means that we are always able to react to any sudden demand charges we see from our customers. It also allows a best in class adaptability to accommodate any engineering changes that may occur as a customer's design progress.
Fabricated Assemblies
DMP provides a unique advantage in the fabrication sector by supporting customers from the design stage through to full-scale production, ensuring manufacturing is optimised for cost efficiency and quality. High-volume precision assemblies are produced using advanced methods including CNC laser cutting, robotic welding, sawing, shearing, rolling, flame profiling, heat treatment, pressure testing, and traditional welding techniques.
Engineered Products
DMP operates a fully equipped CNC machining facility, a vital part of its operations, capable of handling both low and high-volume turning and milling projects. This division produces sub-assembly components for in-house assemblies as well as finished parts ready for direct delivery to customers.
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DMP runs a comprehensive Quality Assurance System focused on continuous improvement and total quality awareness. Every project undergoes Advanced Quality Planning with Process FMEA to define control measures early on. Using SPC, potential issues are identified in advance, ensuring consistent, zero-defect production.
Driven by continuous improvement, DMP delivers a unique offering in the metal component manufacturing sector—combining full engineering involvement, a skilled and committed team, and cutting-edge technology to provide cost-effective products and services that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
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