Machine Guards, Walkways & Site Maintenance Parts

Machine Guards, Walkways, Platforms and Replacement Parts for Site Maintenance

Kaizen Engineering makes guards, access steelwork and replacement parts to your drawing for factories, process plants, waste and recycling sites, and the maintenance teams and contractors who look after them. Everything is laser cut, folded and welded at our works on Thomas Street, Shaw, Oldham, just off the M62. Whether you need one guard panel to get a line running again or a full set of parts for a planned shutdown, you deal with one supplier from drawing to finished part.

What We Make for Maintenance Teams

All made to order, to your drawing, sample or measurements:

• Machine guards and covers: guard panels with laser cut openings, hinged and bolt-on covers, belt and coupling guards, and guard frames
• Access steelwork: platform and walkway frames, stair stringers and folded treads, toe boards, kick plates, handrail brackets and stanchion base plates
• Floor and access plates: inspection and access covers, cover plates and folded trays
• Brackets and mounts: motor and gearbox mounts, sensor and cable tray brackets, base plates and gussets
• Chutes, hoppers and housings: replacement chute sections, liners, fan housings and enclosures
• Replacement parts: worn or damaged brackets, plates and fabricated parts copied from the original
• Wear parts: liners and wear strips in Hardox^® wear steel for parts that see abrasion (see our recycling and wear parts page)

We make finished parts only. We don’t sell sheet or plate.

Cut, Fold and Weld Under One Roof

1. Laser cut profiles, holes, slots and guard openings on our 8kW Trumpf fibre laser, so fixing holes line up with what’s already on site. We cut mild steel and stainless steel up to 25mm and aluminium up to 12mm.
2. Fold covers, trays, treads and angles on our CNC press brake, up to 4m long and 20mm thick on our 250-tonne Bystronic. Many angle-shaped parts can be cut and folded from plate rather than made from rolled section.
3. Weld frames, guards and sub-assemblies with MIG and TIG in our 11,000 sq ft fabrication facility.

We hold stock of S275 and S355 carbon steel, 304 and 316 stainless and wear plate on site, so many jobs can start without waiting for material. If your drawing calls for a specific grade, finish or material certificate, tell us when you send it and we’ll include it in the quote.

Who We Work With

Larger sites and maintenance contractors

Manufacturing plants, food and process sites, waste, recycling and energy-from-waste facilities, and the engineering and maintenance contractors working on them. We can programme your parts once and cut them again to the same standard, so repeat orders, spares for critical machines and parts batched around a planned shutdown are straightforward.

Smaller firms

Single-site manufacturers, workshops, millwrights and local maintenance engineers. We’re happy to quote a single guard, bracket or cover, and we’ll give you the quickest lead time the job allows when a machine is down.

Send a Drawing, Sketch or Photos for a Quote

Email your drawing (DXF, DWG, STEP, IGES or PDF) to sales@kaizen-eng.com with the material, thickness, quantity, any finish you need and the date you need it by.

No drawing? Send a sketch, or photos and measurements of the existing part, ideally with a tape measure in shot, and we’ll work out the drawing with you before anything is cut. You can also call 01706 847 172 or send your drawing for a quote online.

Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 7:30am – 4:30pm
Friday: 7:30am – 12:30pm
Saturday and Sunday: closed

Kaizen Engineering
Thomas Street, Shaw, Oldham OL2 8PG

Site Maintenance Fabrication FAQs

Can you copy a guard or bracket that has no drawing?

Usually, yes. Send photos and measurements, or send the part in, and we’ll draw it up and confirm the dimensions with you before cutting.

Can you make a set of parts for a shutdown?

Yes. Send the parts list and drawings with your shutdown date and we’ll quote the set. Once programmed, the same parts can be cut again for the next shutdown.

Do you take one-off jobs?

Yes. A single guard panel or bracket is fine, as are repeat batches.

Who designs walkways, platforms and handrails?

We make access steelwork to your drawing and specification. Your engineer or designer sets the design, loadings and the standards it must meet, and we build to it.

Hardox is a trademark of SSAB. Kaizen Engineering is an independent processor and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SSAB.