Ashgrove quotes every complete enquiry within one working day, with the price broken down by material, machine time and finishing — so you can see what to change if the number is wrong for you. One piece or five thousand, no minimum order value.
Drawings are covered by a mutual NDA on request, held on servers in-country, and never shown to another customer. We also do not quote work that competes directly with an existing client without telling you first.
Published limits, not aspirations. If your part is outside these, say so in the enquiry and we will tell you who does it rather than quoting something we would struggle with.
4 kW fibre laser with automatic sheet loading, running two shifts. Nesting is done in-house so offcut waste sits on our side of the invoice, not yours.
Mild steel ≤ 6 mm · stainless ≤ 5 mm · aluminium ≤ 4 mm · bed 3000 × 1500 mm · ±0.05 mmThree press brakes with offline programming, so a new part does not eat an hour of machine time before the first bend. Tooling for radius, hemming and small-flange work is on site.
Up to 3200 mm × 135 t · min flange 8 mm · angle tolerance ±0.5° · air bendingMIG, TIG and spot, with coded welders for structural work and fixtures built in-house for anything above 50 pieces. Weld maps are agreed before the first article, not after.
MIG · TIG · spot · coded to ISO 9606-1 · fixtures from batch 50 · full penetration on requestTapping, countersinking and self-clinch inserts done in the same cell as forming, which removes a handling step and about three days from a typical order.
M3–M16 tapping · PEM inserts · countersink 82°/90° · reaming to H8Powder coating and wet spray through two long-standing partners, zinc plating through a third. Their lead times are included in the quote rather than added later as a surprise.
Powder coat RAL/BS · wet spray · zinc plate · anodising · deburr and linish in-houseFirst article inspection on every new part number, dimensional reports on request, and material certificates traced to the heat number for anything structural.
FAIR on new part numbers · EN 10204 3.1 certs · CMM report on request · ISO 9001:2015Most quotes that take three days instead of one are missing something from this list. None of it needs to be perfect — a hand sketch with dimensions beats a beautiful model with no material called out.
If you have only some of it, send what you have. We would rather ring you at nine in the morning than sit on the enquiry waiting for a complete pack.
Start the enquiryMeasured from approved drawing and purchase order, not from first email. These are the figures the last twelve months actually ran at, and the on-time column is what we hit against them.
| Work type | Standard | Expedited | On-time, 12 mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat laser-cut parts, raw | 3–5 days | 48 hours | 98.1% |
| Cut and formed, raw | 5–8 days | 3 days | 96.9% |
| Welded assembly, raw | 8–12 days | 5 days | 95.2% |
| Any of the above, powder coated | +4–6 days | +3 days | 94.7% |
| Zinc plated or anodised | +6–8 days | not offered | 93.4% |
| First article on a new part number | +2 days | +1 day | 99.0% |
Expedited work carries a 25% surcharge and is confirmed by a person before it is promised — we do not accept an expedited order the machine schedule cannot take.
A named estimator picks it up — you get their direct line in the acknowledgement, not a ticket number.
within 1 hourPriced by material, machine time and finishing, with the lead time and the assumptions we made written out.
by 17:00 next dayWe confirm the revision we are working to. Changes after this point are re-quoted rather than absorbed quietly.
same day as POOn a new part number, one piece is made and measured before the batch runs. You get the report and can stop the batch.
+2 daysBatch, inspect, pack to your delivery point. Certificates and reports travel with the paperwork, not by email a week later.
per lead timePublished with each customer's permission. Where a part is proprietary, we show the process rather than the product.
ISO 9001:2015 certified since 2011, plus customer audits from three of the names below. Certificates are sent with the quote if your process needs them on file first.
"We send drawings to four fabricators. Ashgrove is the only one whose quote tells us which dimension is driving the price, which means we can change the part instead of arguing about the number."
"They turned down an expedited order last March because the schedule was full, and told us who could take it. That phone call is why they now get the whole programme."
No minimum order value and no minimum quantity. One piece is quoted the same day as five thousand — it just carries the setup cost visibly rather than hidden in a unit price, so you can decide whether to batch it with something else.
Yes, either yours or ours, usually returned the same day. Drawings are stored on in-country servers, access is limited to the estimator and the programmer, and files are deleted on request when a programme ends.
First order is 50% with the purchase order, balance before despatch. After two completed orders we open a 30-day account subject to a credit check. Tooling and fixtures are invoiced separately and are yours — we store them here at no charge.
Yes, on a blanket order with scheduled call-offs across up to twelve months. You get the batch price on the full quantity and we hold the finished parts here, invoiced as they ship. Storage is free for the first six months.
If it is our error we remake it at our cost and expedite it, and you get the inspection record showing how it passed. If the drawing was ambiguous we split the cost and change the drawing note so it cannot happen again on the repeat.
No. If a part is outside the published limits above, the reply says so and names two other shops that can take it. We would rather lose an enquiry than deliver something we had to fight the machine to produce.
An incomplete enquiry still gets a same-morning phone call from the estimator who will price it. Nothing sits in a queue waiting for a perfect drawing pack.