What's included
Sourcing Services covers everything between a drawing (or a sample, or a photograph of an OEM part) and a finished component on your dock. You can engage us for any one of these or for the full flow.
- Quoting from drawings in PDF, DWG, or STEP format.
- CAD conversion from paper drawings, scans, or hand sketches.
- Design-for-manufacturing review to flag cost drivers and alternates.
- Reverse-engineering from samples when no drawing exists.
- CNC turning, milling, grinding, and associated finishing.
- Material sourcing, traceability documentation, and certificates on request.
- Inspection and first-article reporting on production runs.
- Overflow capacity — contract machining when your own shop is over its limit.
- Consolidated shipping to Canada. One invoice. One point of contact.
Three audiences. The same operating team behind each.
Packaging industry OEMs
We have our deepest industry experience in packaging — wear parts, production consumables, custom fixtures, and retrofit hardware for the machines that run food, beverage, and consumer packaging lines. For packaging OEMs, we take on three kinds of work:
- Custom parts from drawings. Turnkey machining of parts you already design — we quote, produce, and ship. Most common on stainless steel wear components and food-grade plastics.
- CAD and design-for-manufacturing. When your engineering team is buried, we take the design work off their desk. From a concept, sketch, or sample, we produce a production-ready drawing and a quote against it.
- Overflow capacity. When your own shop is bottlenecked on a specific job or SKU, we slot in as contract machining. Drawings go in, parts come out, your customer never knows. Canadian PM on the account.
System integrators
System integrators build complete production lines — combining machines from multiple OEMs with conveyors, robotics, vision, and controls into a working system for an end customer. The design work is heavy, the timelines are tight, and the margin on custom hardware is thin. That's exactly where we fit.
- Custom brackets, guards, fixtures, and transfer hardware. The one-off parts every integration needs, quoted fast from your drawings.
- CAD and DFM for integration-specific components. When a part has to fit between two OEM machines that were never designed to work together, we produce the drawing and the component.
- Capacity on parallel builds. When you're running three integrations at once and your own shop can only absorb one, we take the hardware scope on the other two.
General sourcing
Outside packaging, we've produced parts for food processing, automotive, and general industrial sectors — any application where stainless, aluminum, brass, bronze, or food-grade plastics are the working materials. If you have a drawing and a lot size that fits our range, we can likely quote it.
- One-off prototypes and short runs. Lot sizes from one piece to several hundred, without the setup surcharges that usually come with small batches.
- Replacement parts and retrofits. If an OEM is charging a premium on a replacement part and you have the drawing or a sample, send it — we'll tell you honestly whether re-sourcing makes sense.
- Design and reverse-engineering. Where no drawing exists, we work from samples or photographs, produce the CAD, and quote against it.
Materials and lot sizes
We focus on the materials and lot sizes that match the work mid-sized manufacturers actually run — replacement wear parts, production consumables, low-volume machinery parts, and retrofit hardware.
- Primary metals
- 304 and 316 stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminum alloys.
- Secondary metals
- Brass, bronze, and specialty alloys on request.
- Plastics
- Food-grade UHMW, Delrin (acetal), PEEK.
- Lot sizes
- 1 to 500. Prototypes, short runs, and repeat production.
- Processes
- CNC turning, milling, grinding, and associated finishing.
- Industries
- Deepest in packaging machinery. Substantial experience in food processing, automotive, and general industrial applications.
How to engage
The first step is always a concrete part. Not a meeting, not a capability deck. We work faster and give you a better read on fit if you send us something specific.
- Send a drawing. PDF, DWG, or STEP. If the drawing is old or unclear, send it anyway — cleaning it up is part of what we do.
- Describe the part. A photograph of a sample, a sketch, or a written description. We'll come back with questions and a proposed drawing.
- Send an OEM quote. If you're buying a replacement part from an OEM and suspect you're paying a premium, send us the quote and whatever drawing or sample you have. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth re-sourcing.
You'll hear back within three business days with a quote or a set of questions. If we're not the right fit for a given part, we'll say so plainly.
Send a drawing. Or describe the part. Or send a recent OEM quote.
We respond within three business days with a quote or with the questions we need answered to produce one.
info@maplempss.com · +1 647-671-4516 · Burlington, ON · Chennai, IN