About
Family-run fabricators on the Liverpool docks.
Kanwick is 38 people in one 4,200 m² works. We cut, fold, weld, coat and deliver steel for contractors, architects and manufacturers across the North West and North Wales.
Since 1987
Thirty-odd years, one address.
We have grown by buying the next machine when the work justified it, not before, and by keeping the customers we had.
- 1987
Two welders rent half a bay on Rimmer Dock Road with a borrowed crane.
- 1998
First structural package: a 40-tonne portal frame for a Bootle warehouse.
- 2011
Certified to BS EN 1090 ahead of the CE marking deadline.
- 2019
The whole of Bay 4 and a 7-metre powder coating oven.
- 2024
A 6 kW fibre laser replaces the old CO₂ machine and halves cut times.
The people
38 people, four teams
Your estimator stays your contact from quote to delivery. No account managers, no ticket numbers.
3
Estimating
Price every job from the drawing, and are the people you speak to until it ships.
2
Drawing office
Fabrication drawings, flat patterns and connection detailing.
24
Shop floor
Laser, brake, saw and weld: fourteen coded welders among them.
9
Finishing and site
Blast, powder line, the wagon, and the erection squad.
How we work
Insurance and certificates, in every tender pack
£10 million public liability, £5 million products liability and professional indemnity for connection design. Certificates on request, and in every tender pack.
- BS EN 1090-1 Execution class EXC2
- BS EN ISO 9606-1 Coded welders, re-tested every 2 years
- BS EN ISO 3834-3 Fusion welding quality
- ISO 9001 Quality management
- CHAS Health and safety, assessed yearly
- Constructionline Gold Pre-qualified supplier
