Author Archives: Matthew Halliwell

Top 50 Engineering Blogs

Laser cutting is a huge part of numerous industries, from construction to engineering, and there are many fabrication companies across the globe that work on new and interesting projects all the time. There are also countless new methods for laser and WaterJet cutting produced on a consistent basis, and if you want to be the […]

Bonfire Party 2013

Bonfire night was once again the perfect time to celebrate a successful financial year at Yorkshire Profiles. The weather was worse than expected but the party went ahead regardless. Sheltering from the pouring rain and strong winds everyone still had a fantastic time with good laughs, music and a hog roast. Luckily the wind was […]

Metallic Gold Powder Coating

We often work on prototype products which are about to enter the market and some catch our eye more than others. This product required us to produce an accurate radius bend and a presentable tight fitting case. We just love the colour the inventor has chosen for his designs! The fact that this product is made […]

Square to Round Mild Steel Fabrication

At Yorkshire Profiles we manufacture “hoppers” of all kind in various shapes and sizes for different industries. Quite often these have a “Square to Round” shape. This term is used even if the part is more of a rectangular shape to round, or even to an oval shape. Mild steel “Square to Round” cut and folded Square […]

Customer Satisfaction Survey 2013

Well it’s that time again for our annual satisfaction survey! Here are the results we collected from our forms: (Blue = 2012, Red = 2013). Customer Satisfaction Results 2012 vs 2013 Overall, these are another fantastic set of results and we received lots of amazing comments about the services we provide, thank you to everyone […]

Powder Coated Fabrication

This box was produced for an environmental based business in the UK. It was cut on our laser then folded and welded by our fabrication team. It was important to have a high quality weld on all seams as any discrepancies would show through the powder coating. A mild steel box welded and powder coated […]

Laser Cutting Very Small Details

We were recently asked to manufacture a one off small disk for a University project which was quite challenging for our laser. The main problem was that it was to be made out of thin mild steel. The disk had to have very narrow slots put in leaving only 0.2mm of material between each slot. […]

Stainless Steel Fabrication

This project was to fully fabricate a stainless steel gantry for the food industry. This stainless steel fabrication was designed by one of our clients and fully fabricated by ourselves to their specifications. First the stainless steel box sections were cut to length and welded to create the frame. The facia plates were nearly 4 […]

Piercing Mild Steel

Capturing the moment when a 4Kw laser pierces mild steel is always spectacular. Capturing the moment the laser piercing steel always makes for good pictures. A 4Kw laser can very quickly pierce through mild steel. Close up of our “eco pierce” on 10mm thick mild steel.

Aluminium Calliper

Once a small block of aluminium heading to the scrap bin, this part was cut to size on the waterjet machine with a 2mm machining allowance and then sub-contracted out to one of our clients to produce this lovely calliper. Once a block of scrap aluminium, now a nice calliper.