Complete Fabrication is a prototype model maker in Whittlesford, near Cambridge, making prototypes since 1986. We offer product design and development, SLA, Carbon DLS and FDM 3D printing, CNC machining, vacuum casting, painting and finishing, and low-volume production for medical, robotics, aerospace and consumer product teams.
Biocompatible, sterilisable resins such as Carbon MPU 100.
Fast enough to test, decide and move forward.
From print to production ready in hours.
We work between a promising CAD model and a prototype that has to survive testing. Our clients are in medical devices, defence, aerospace, automotive, industrial systems, electronics, robotics and consumer products. Before any machine starts, we agree the process, material and schedule, because the wrong process usually costs more time than it saves. Forty years of model making sits behind those calls. See our full rapid prototyping services.
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Built quickly, engineered properly.
Vacuum-cast polyurethane batches while your production tooling is being made.
Designed with manufacturing, assembly and use in mind.
A first-of-a-kind project exists nowhere else, so confidentiality protocols are standard here. If your organisation needs more, we will set it up: restricted-access workspaces, password-protected file sharing, NDAs for every team member who touches the job, and full audit trails. We work regularly in regulated sectors, including medical and defence, and we plan compliance into the project from the quote stage. Documents such as SOPs, Technical Agreements and Certificates of Conformity can be built into the job if you flag them when you ask for a quote.
Complete Fabrication Ltd, known as CompFab, is a prototyping and low-volume manufacturing company in Whittlesford, near Cambridge. We 3D print, CNC machine, vacuum cast, paint and assemble prototypes and small batches for product designers, engineers and manufacturers.
Yes. The company was incorporated in 1998 as Complete Fabrication Modelmakers Ltd and renamed Complete Fabrication Ltd in 2020. CompFab is the short name we use.
Since 1986, when David Kent founded the business after an apprenticeship in modelmaking and patternmaking. The limited company was incorporated in 1998, and we have completed more than 4,850 projects. Read our history.
David Kent founded the company and is a director, and Tom Davies-Kent is also a director. The people you speak to are the people making your parts; see our team.
Unit 4B Lion Works, Station Road East, Whittlesford, Cambridge CB22 4WL. The workshop is a two-minute walk from Whittlesford Parkway station, and we deliver overnight across the UK.
We have 18 people plus about four freelancers, covering 3D printing, CNC machining, vacuum casting, painting and finishing, and assembly.
Medical devices, defence, aerospace, automotive, industrial systems, electronics, robotics and consumer products. Many of our clients are product design consultancies and medical device teams.
Yes. We are ISO 9001 certified (certificate 7774, ISOQAR, UKAS), which covers our quality management system.
Yes. We are a Carbon Certified Production Partner, listed on Carbon's website, and were the second UK company to partner with Carbon. See Carbon 3D printing.
Our case studies include casework for Cambridge Consultants, the SAMBA II diagnostic instrument for Diagnostics for the Real World, Owlstone breath analysers and working mower prototypes for Hayter. See all case studies.
Yes. Many of our clients are product design consultancies. They own the design and the client relationship; we check their CAD for manufacture and make the prototypes, trial batches and low-volume runs, under NDA. See design consultancies.
Send your CAD file or drawing with the quantity, finish and deadline through our contact page, email info@compfab.co.uk or call +44 1223 836837. We quote fast, and if you have a deadline we will do our best to match it.
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Send it over and tell us when you need it. We will ask the awkward questions and tell you straight what is possible.
