Design Fabricators specialises in providing design development, engineering, and custom fabrication services to creative professionals and organisations. Our combined expertise and facilities offer in-house metalwork, woodworking, casting, spraying, and CNC machining, enabling us to quickly turn around projects for our clients. Our goal is to establish a close working relationship, delivering innovative and creative solutions to facilitate projects.
We offer project development and design, engineering and manufacturing, along with installation and aftercare. We coordinate with developers, local authorities, and private institutions, providing itemised budgets, installation specifications, project management, RAMS, and maintenance schedules. We can act as a general liaison in negotiations with relevant parties to oversee timing, budget, and construction details. Our workmen are IPAF 3A & 3B ticketed are all CSCS ticketed. We also partner with a specialist transport and lifting company, and as such, we can provide a complete fabrication and installation service.
Areas of expertise:
Architectural Metalworks
Jesmonite and Glass Reinforced Cement Casting
Fine Art Fabrication & Facilitation in combined materials
Motion Control & Technical Special Effects
We are capable of producing high relief patterned or sculpted surfaces that can be integrated into built objects or environments. Rubber moulding is used for repeatable castings.
Materials used for direct tooling include timber, MDF, tricoya, plywood, Corian, plastics, laminates and non-ferrous metals. Large areas can be assembled from multiple interlocking panels.
Repeatable/reusable designs are machined in high density modelling board, from which rubber moulds are made for casting purposes.
Feature Walls / Surfaces
Decorative Panels, Mouldings & Trim
Interior and Exterior Surfaces
Integration of cast panels into metal or wood frameworks
Plaster: glass fibre or hessian reinforced
GRC & GRP: glass reinforced cement and fibreglass
Jesmonite: polymerized gypsum or cement – durable, versatile, lightweight, eco friendly (water-based, non-VOC), fire resistant. Many surface finishes and colours available. -link to Jesmonite Surfaces Gallery-
Resins: clear/coloured/opaque/translucent
We can also provide CNC routing services for your project. Routing wood, laminates, plastics and light metals up to 3m x 1.5m. CAD file formats accepted; DXF, DWG, STL, SAT, IGES (please enquire about other formats).
Materials
Non-ferrous metals
Plywoods, MDF, Tricoya
Hardwood
Plastics, Corian, LG Hi-Macs
Laminates