WEC Fabrication

General information

WEC Group is one of the largest Engineering and Fabrication companies in the UK. The group has been providing fabrication, laser cutting, precision machining, waterjet cutting and CCTV mounting solutions for over 30 years.

Employing over 445 staff and comprising of 14 companies operating in many different industries including Aerospace & Defence, Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Mining, and Automotive to name but a few, WEC Group are well placed to meet any subcontract engineering and metalworking requirement!

Thanks to ongoing investment, the WEC Group has grown substantially over the past few years and now operates from four geographical locations in the North West of England, with over 185,000 square foot of manufacturing floorspace.

Be it laser cutting, CNC machining, waterjet cutting, powder coating, coded welding & fabrication, heavy engineering, or architectural stainless steel fabrication, the WEC Group has the engineering capacity to answer any customer needs.

WEC Group also supply products and services to the UK and European Rail Industry, such as signal structures, gantries, rolling stock metalwork, and Pedestrian Bridges. WEC are also one of the UK Leaders for CCTV Mounting Solutions and now exports CCTV Poles & Towers as far afield as the Middle and Far East.

All divisions of the WEC Group benefit from extensive in-house facilities which means that dependence on external suppliers is kept to an absolute minimum, ensuring standards and lead times can be kept to WEC Group expectations. It is thanks to the wide range of facilities at WEC's disposal that the Group truly is a one-stop metalworking shop.

The Group also runs its own in-house welding & Fabrication apprenticeship scheme which is the only one of its calibre in the UK and is a member of AWFTE (Association of Welding & Fabrication Training & Education). Costing the Group in excess of £100k to run annually the idea behind the scheme is to create highly skilled, loyal employees who will stay with the company long after their apprenticeship is complete.