Friary Metal Products Limited is a Made in the Midlands Bronze Member Our company
Friary Metal Products Limitedis a family run and owned press work company that has been trading in Birmingham since 1932. During this time we have built up a reputation for both high quality supply and service.
Four generations of the family have successfully run the business and we are still working hard to continue the family legacy into the future.
To our Clients we expect to produce High Quality products and components, meeting the essential quality criteria that modern manufacturing requires. This is our commitment to them.
Our BS EN ISO 9001 / 2000 quality accredited system ensures we achieve these goals and as this web site is up loaded we have had zero customer returns in the last three months as well as achieving a 97% on time delivery rate overall with a 100% on time delivery rate to our three main customers.
It is our aim to offer the very best customer service possible to our clients, by understanding our clients' needs and ensuring the constant flow of high quality information, we know we achieve this.
As business owners we believe that the way to conduct business is to be fair and honest with both our customers and our suppliers. We also believe it is important to have a reputation as a good employer. Our core staff includes many members of families who have worked for us through the generations. Generally, as with so many manufacturing companies in today's climate we have a diverse and international staff base.
Services
Friary Metal Products produce a large selection of components for companies involved in the manufacture of a wide range of end user products. Our customer quality needs are exacting and always met.
The specific services which we offer include:
- 55 power press ranging from 6 tonnes to 150 tonnes
- A full range of fly presses to perform secondary operations
- Tapping facilities
- Full barrelling / electro deburring
- Tapping facilities
- Drilling and countersinking facilities
- Spot welding facilities
- Projection welding facilities
- In house tool room to maintain and refurbish our customers press tools.
We produce components from all types of metals, including Mild Steel, aluminium (1050. 6053, 2014t6) brass, copper, stainless steel (304 2B 316) and spring steel.
We currently have work finished in Electrophoretic paint / Powder Coating / Delta Tone / Protekt 100 / Zinc Nickel (CR6 free) / Delta Tone 9000.
At Friary Metal Products we pride ourselves on producing high quality press work for a wide and varied range of customers.
Although the services which we offer are similar to many other press work companies we believe our unique selling points are:
- Excellent Customer relations based on high levels of communication ensuring a constant flow of high quality information.
- On time deliveries (97% overall and 100% to our three main customers in the last three months).
- Zero customer returns in the last three months.
- Competitive prices based on high quality.
- Our ability to assist customers in the design and development of new products by harnessing the vast wealth of experience which is held by our engineers.
Quality Control
We are approved by Lloyds Register Quality assurance to ISO 9001/2008.
Approval certificate number LRQ0953986.
Our original approval date was the 26th of November 1996 and our current certificate was issued on the 25 May 2010, and will expire on the 30th November 2011.
Benjamin Smith also qualified in September 2008 as a Six Sigma Green belt after implementing an improvement project within the business.
"Quality is the key to success, and the foundation which our continued success is built on."
Products
Below are some of the products we make. To find out more about any of these products, get in touch.
Highly accurate Aluminium light weight components produced for Prosthetic Hands.
We produce these parts from L167 2014 T6 aluminium to offer both the strength, durability, that is required for parts which are so important to the end user.
The components are produced to high tolerances of +/- 0.01 mm on general tolerances and +/- 0.5° on the angular dimensions.
Hole sizes are produced to a tolerance of +0.05 mm to – 0.00 mm.
The parts are also heat treated to a solution & age harden finish to achieve the T6 condition and a hardness of 140 HV.
Pivot bar and pivot bar carriers.
These highly accurate parts are used in the manufacture of window systems. The gauge of the parts has to be of a very high tolerance, +/- 0.002" on the 1.55mm CR4 material and +/- 0.1mm on the HRP1 material which is bought at 4.9 - 5.1 mm thick.
All general dimensions are +/-0.25mm.
We finish the parts in a Delta Protekt VP KL 100 finish which gives 480 hours salt spray resistance.
Automotive components for Toyota
High quality and very accurate assembly parts for the automotive industry. These products were supplied to BOS Automotive Products for assembly into parts for Jaguar Cars and Toyota.
Both products were produced from CR1 EDDQ gauge correct mild steel with a tolerance on the material itself of +/- 0.05 mm. Using a 10 stage production operation to produce the actual pressing, the parts were then assembled using a Spin Riveter.
There was a 14 stage quality control checking procedure to ensure the high tolerances required on these parts were achieved, which were general tolerances of +/- 0.2 mm.
British lazy tong security road trap system
Vehicle arresting technology.
The British Lazy Tong is a product which has been supplied around the globe to assist in the implementation of Military Operations for over 40 years. With the sad passing of Roy Lowndes earlier this year, the rights to produce and sell this established product have been passed over to FMP.
The British Lazy Tong is a road trap vehicle arresting system that was first created in conjunction with the MOD in the early 60’s, primarily as a means of stopping cars in Northern Ireland, whilst using as little violence as possible.
With over 10’000 units deployed worldwide this is a tried and tested method of creating a temporary road block. Although there are products which replicate the effect of The British Lazy Tong there are none that have the reliability or durability of our product.
The British Lazy Tong is a proven and safe way of stopping vehicles. It has been in application around the world for over 40 years.
Overall specification
- 23 foot lazy tong assembly;
- Overall length of lazy tong is 23 foot (7010 mm) once expanded;
- Assembly consists of 32 sections of 30 mm wide x 5 mm thick aluminium section;
- Each section has 10 spikes attached to it;
- Aluminium expanding section produced from 6082t6 material;
- Overall weight of the british lazy tong approximately 9.43 kilos;
- The lazy tong is supplied with 2 off polyester ropes // one at 20 foot long and one at 46 foot long // in application the person secures one side of the lazy tong to the road with the 20 foot rope and then they wait on the other side of the road and use the 46 foot length to pull the lazy tong across the road;
- Overall size of assembly, once boxed, will be 615 mm x 480 mm x 105 mm;
- The stakes which secure the lazy tong are produced from aluminium angle specification 6082t6;
- The spike is produced from zinc alloy a to bs1004 and is 50 mm long (working area);
- This product has previously been supplied to nato in Bosnia, Africa, Norway, Northern Ireland.
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