Service A / 01 Sourcing Services

Custom parts, design work, and overflow capacity — from one operating team.

We source, design, and manufacture custom machined parts for mid-sized North American manufacturers. Drawings in, parts out, Canadian project manager on every order. When your own shop is over capacity, we take the overflow.

Chennai manufacturing floor — machining in progress
§ 01

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.
Who We Build For 02 / 04

Three audiences. The same operating team behind each.

A · 01

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.
CNC turning center with operator — wear parts production for packaging lines
Fig. A1 — CNC turning, packaging parts run
A · 02

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.
A2 · 01 Tray former assembly on the Chennai floor — custom frame and pneumatic column
A2 · 02 Flow-wrap conveyor section with transfer hardware and guarding
A2 · 03 Collator and film delivery stage — integrated with adjacent unwind units
A2 · 04 Infeed conveyor and pallet handling frame — end-of-line integration
Fig. A2 — Line-scale integration work, Chennai floor
A · 03

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.
General industrial sourcing — mixed materials and lot sizes
Fig. A3 — General sourcing, mixed-material runs
§ 03

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.
03 · 01 Polished forging die cavity — precision surface finish on large-scale tooling
03 · 02 Aluminum mold and die cavity array — machined to print, ready for assembly
03 · 03 Stainless steel flanges — weld-neck and slip-on, multiple sizes
03 · 04 Stainless turned components — fittings, bushings, adapters, and nuts
Fig. 03 — Selected machinery parts across stainless, aluminum, and tool steels
Machined parts family — shaft, bushing, pinion, cam lever, and toothed cam
Production run on the bench — brackets, pins, channel pieces, and shafts staged for inspection
Stainless bushings and threaded couplers in graduated sizes
Paired stainless spindles with keyed ends and threaded collars
Machined manifold plate with ceramic-lined bore inserts
Stainless threaded coupler — multi-diameter turned body
Assortment of stainless fittings, valves, and threaded adapters
Steel manifold housing with flanged top and side ports
Flanged hub assembly with threaded bore and bolt pattern
Black plastic housing with metal insert bushings
Cast aluminum bracket with machined mounting faces
Stainless shaft with engraved part number BMBD13
Fig. 03b — Twelve production parts. Stainless, aluminum, tool steel, cast, and plastic.
§ 04

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.

Short-run stainless components
Work / Sourcing
Client
An Ontario industrial services firm
Brief
Short-run stainless components for retrofit work
Materials
316 stainless, aluminum
Lot
Mixed — 1 to 50 per part, across ~30 part numbers
The client's engineering team was spending more time sourcing one-off components than doing actual design work. We took over the full tail — quoting from their drawings, machining, inspection, and consolidated shipping. "We stopped chasing suppliers. The engineering team got their week back."
Next Step

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.

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