Vital Parts

What Vital Parts does

Vital Parts Ltd is a UK-based private limited company headquartered in Maidstone, Kent, that manufactures and supplies industrial plastic, rubber, and metal components across more than 50,000 stocked SKUs organised into roughly 27 product categories. Core categories include fasteners and fixings (bolts, screws, nuts, washers, pins, clips, spacers, standoffs), protective components (end caps, plugs, stoppers, edging strips, pipe and flange protection), functional hardware (adjustable feet, castors, anti-vibration mounts, industrial hardware such as hinges, latches, and handles), cable management solutions, PCB hardware, high-temperature masking products, and scaffold protection components. Underlying technical content includes downloadable CAD drawings (STP, STL, IGS, GLB) embedded in product pages, stainless steel fasteners manufactured to DIN and ISO standards, and ISO 9001:2015 certified production. The company also operates as the official UK distributor for Heyco moulded wire and stamped electrical components.

The business model is built around a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform (vital-parts.co.uk) supplemented by a higher-touch Business Account programme. Standard revenue comes from unit-priced product sales with volume discounts (minimum order £10, free UK delivery above £30, economic £4.85 second-class delivery for £20–£30 orders), while Business Accounts add trade pricing, buffer stock, scheduled recurring deliveries, credit accounts, priority shipping, and dedicated account managers, functioning as a subscription-like recurring revenue layer. A custom moulding service produces bespoke plastic, rubber, and metal components on a project basis, with disclosed output of 8.2 million custom parts manufactured and supplied in 2025. Customer segmentation is horizontal across Manufacturing & Engineering, Trade & Professional Buyers, and Large-scale Manufacturing, with no named enterprise customers disclosed. Distribution relies on UK-held inventory and an extended live stock network supporting same-day dispatch on thousands of lines.

Go-to-market is e-commerce-led (organic SEO, email newsletter, reviews on Reviews.io, loyalty rewards scheme with Bronze/Silver/Gold tiers at £200/£1,000/£20,000 lifetime spend), with additional field/enterprise sales via Business Account managers. The company operates from two locations — Maidstone (HQ and warehouse at Palace Industrial Estate) and Ringwood/Bournemouth (First Floor Piquet House) — and operates exclusively within the United Kingdom with no disclosed international footprint. Ownership is privately held with no external funding rounds, institutional investors, or parent company disclosed in the available material, indicating a bootstrapped or founder/family-owned structure with undisclosed shareholders.

Name

Vital Parts

Legal name

Vital Parts Ltd

Website

https://vital-parts.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Vital Parts is a UK-based private manufacturer and e-commerce distributor of industrial plastic, rubber, and metal components, offering 50,000+ SKUs across fasteners, fixings, protective parts, and cable management to engineers, OEMs, and trade buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Components and Fasteners

NAICS

Plastics Product Manufacturing (3261), Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing (326)

SIC

Plastics Products, Nec (3089), Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware (3420)

akta.pro primary industry

Custom Injection Molding & Contract Manufacturing (Job Shops/CMs) (IMANAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Blow-Molded Packaging Closures & Dispensing Components (Caps, Nozzles) (IMANAGAH), Custom & Contract Blow-Molding Services (Toll Manufacturing) (IMANAGAO), Industrial & Machinery Injection Molded Components (Gears, Wear Parts) (IMANAFAF)

Keywords

• Industrial fasteners
• Plastic rubber components
• Custom moulding services
• Cable management components
• Protective end caps

Headquarters

HQ city

Maidstone

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Product Sales: Direct sales of industrial components including fasteners, fixings, end caps, plugs, stoppers, adjustable feet, cable management components, tube inserts, castors, industrial hardware, and masking products. Revenue generated through unit pricing with volume discounts available.
2. Business Account Services: Trade accounts offering buffer stock levels, scheduled recurring deliveries, credit accounts, priority shipping, and dedicated account managers for business customers.
3. Custom Manufacturing: Bespoke component manufacturing services including custom moulding for specialised industrial applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Vital Parts manufactures and supplies a wide range of plastic, rubber, and metal industrial components — including fasteners, fixings, end caps, plugs, stoppers, adjustable feet, cable management components, castors, anti-vibration mounts, masking products, PCB hardware and industrial hardware — through a UK e-commerce platform with over 50,000 stocked SKUs and same-day dispatch. The company also offers in-house custom moulding services for bespoke plastic, rubber, and metal components, and is the official UK distributor for Heyco moulded wire and stamped electrical components.

Product overview

Vital Parts is a UK-based manufacturer and supplier of industrial components offering a comprehensive portfolio of over 50,000+ stocked SKUs across 27 distinct product categories spanning plastic, rubber, and metal components. The core product lineup includes fasteners and fixings (bolts, screws, nuts, washers, pins, clips, spacers, standoffs), protective components (end caps, plugs, stoppers, edging strips), functional hardware (adjustable feet, castors, anti-vibration mounts), cable management solutions, industrial hardware (hinges, latches, handles), and specialised products for masking, scaffolding, and PCB assembly. The company differentiates through custom moulding services, CAD drawing availability, and Heyco-branded electrical components distribution. With UK-held inventory and access to over £100 million in product range value, the platform serves trade, OEM, and large-scale manufacturing customers requiring same-day dispatch and bulk procurement capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• End Caps Comprehensive range of protective end caps for tubes, pipes, posts and profiles (silicone, PVC, nut, EPDM, post, threaded, threaded sealing, rebar protection, fence post, scaffold, driveshaft, grease nipple, reversible tapered, Eze, centre pull tab, PVC pull tab, pipe end, Unistrut), sold to engineers, manufacturers, and trade buyers.
• Plugs & Stoppers Rubber and plastic plugs and stoppers for masking, sealing, and protecting applications, including tapered rubber, blanking, ventilation, fir tree, snap fit bushes, liquid tight, threaded, threaded sealing, reversible tapered, washer masking, silicone tapered, ribbed, handle, step, pull, thread masking, barrel, cylindrical and finned pull tab variants.
• Furniture & Chair Feet Protective feet, glides, ferrules, and castors for furniture including nail on feet and glides, screw in furniture feet, office chair castors, sofa feet, walking stick ferrules, round and square ferrules, push in feet, and crutch feet.
• Tube Inserts Insert solutions for round, square, rectangular, and oval tubes, including threaded tube inserts, heavy duty threaded inserts, metal tube inserts, tube connectors, and spring inserts.
• High Temp Masking Specialised masking components for high-temperature manufacturing processes, including masking caps, masking plugs, alloy masking hooks, masking tapes, masking discs and die cuts, and masking kits for powder coating and plating applications.
• Adjustable Feet Levelling and adjustment solutions for machinery and equipment, including slotted head adjustable feet, rubber adjustable feet, stainless steel adjustable feet, machinery mounting feet, anti-vibration levelling feet, and weight rated articulated feet.
• Cable Management Components for organising and protecting cables, including cable glands, strain relief, rubber grommets, cable ties, cable clips, braided cable sleeving, heat shrink sleeves, desk cable tidies, and P clips.
• Edging Strips Protective edge trim solutions including rubber edge trims, reinforced edge trim, rubber door trims, and self-adhesive edging strips for finishing and protecting edges.
• Bolts and Screws Extensive range of fasteners including hex head screws and bolts, cap screws, countersunk screws, button screws, security fasteners, self-tapping screws, wood screws, grub screws, threaded rod, weld studs, self-clinching fasteners, and nylon screws and bolts (1,400+ lines of hex bolts with up to 70% discount).
• Nuts Comprehensive fastener range including standard hex nuts, locking hex nuts, flanged hex nuts, dome nuts, wing nuts, square nuts, castle nuts, security nuts, barrel nuts, weld nuts, T-nuts, cage nuts, and self-clinching nuts.
• Washers Wide variety of washers for sealing and spacing applications including rubber, nylon, PTFE, silicone, stainless steel flat and spring, bonded sealing, brass, EPDM WRAS, and FKM washers.
• Pins and Clips Mechanical fasteners including chamfered parallel pins, rounded parallel pins, slotted spring pins, roll pins, split pins, retaining pins, external and internal circlips, and E-clips.
• Spacers and Standoffs Hardware for spacing and mounting applications including nylon spacers, nylon bushes, threaded hex standoffs in male/female configurations, PC standoffs, studding connector nuts, and round connector nuts.
• Plastic & Nylon Fasteners Non-metallic fasteners including nylon hex nuts, nylon dome nuts, nylon all thread, locking wing nuts, nylon wing nuts, knurled nylon nuts, and snap rivets.
• Castors & Wheels Mobility components for equipment and furniture including budget rubber castors, elastic industrial castors, polyurethane castors, twin wheel castors, nylon industrial castors, scaffolding castors, heavy duty rubber wheels, and stainless steel castors.
• Anti-Vibration Mounts Vibration dampening solutions including anti-vibration mounts, flat and conical vibration buffers, tapered vibration buffers, anti-vibration turret mounts, hanger mounts, self-adhesive bumper feet, and fleece tape.
• Industrial Hardware General hardware components including hinges, camlocks, latches, detent pins, index plungers, clamping handles, bridge handles, pull handles, handwheels, wing screws and knobs, ball knobs, metal brackets, door bolts, and roof support systems.
• Pipe & Flange Protection Protection products for pipes and flanges during storage and transport including self-adhesive flange discs, corrugated flange protectors, full face flange protectors, flange cover caps, flange stud hole inserts, and gaskets.
• Hose Clamps & Protection Clamping and protection solutions for hoses including worm drive hose clamps, T bolt clamps, pipe clamps, quick release pipe clamps, rubber lined P clips, petrol pipe clips, constant tension hose clamps, high torque hose clamps, single ear O-clips, and spiral hose wrap.
• Adhesive Tapes Industrial adhesive tapes including PTFE tape, packing tape, gaffer tape, floor marking tape, safety hazard warning tape, non-slip tape, double sided foam tape, and high temperature polyester and polyimide tapes.
• Scaffold Protection Safety components for scaffolding systems including scaffold inserts, scaffold stud caps, and scaffolding base plates.
• Panel Fasteners Quick-release fasteners for panels including snap lock pins, push-in screws, blind rivets, canoe clips, locking canoe clips, and push-in rivets.
• PCB Hardware Components for printed circuit board assembly and mounting, including PCB spacers, wire saddles, twist lock cable ties, push mount cable ties, and open rubber grommets.
• School & Office Furniture Components Products for educational and office furniture including furniture and chair feet, cable management components, handwheels and knobs, and secure nut and bolt caps.
• Rubber Seals Sealing solutions including sponge neoprene cording and O-ring kits.
• Custom Moulding Services Bespoke moulding services for producing custom plastic, rubber and metal components to specification, supporting specialist one-off applications through to high-volume production runs.
• Business Account Services Account services for business customers offering competitive trade pricing, buffer stock levels, scheduled recurring deliveries, credit accounts, priority shipping, free product samples, and dedicated account managers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 8.2 million custom parts manufactured and supplied in 2025
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• HeycocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOfficial UK distributor of Heyco products - a combined experience of 100+ years in manufacturing and design of moulded wire and stamped electrical components. Supplies Heyco strain relief bushings, domed plugs, hole plugs, window plugs, knock out seals, liquid tight plugs, vent plugs, cable glands, bushings, and electronic caps & plugs. Staff hold 30+ years of combined experience within Heyco products.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Accu: UK-based precision component supplier offering a large online catalogue of standard parts (screws, gears, bearings) with same-day dispatch and CAD downloads. Highly comparable go-to-market, customer base of engineers, and SKU-breadth approach to Vital Parts.
• TR Fastenings: UK-headquartered fastener specialist with global manufacturing and distribution, supplying engineered fasteners to OEMs across multiple industries. Comparable product mix (fasteners, fixings, bespoke parts) and similar target customer segments.
• Misumi: Configurable industrial components platform offering moulded and machined parts with CAD downloads and rapid e-commerce fulfilment. Closely comparable digital-led approach to engineer and OEM procurement.

Broad incumbents

• Essentra Components: Global manufacturer and distributor of industrial plastic and metal components including cable management, fasteners and protective caps. Broader geographic footprint and portfolio but overlapping product categories with Vital Parts.
• Bossard: Swiss-headquartered global fastening solutions provider with engineering services and a deep fastener and component catalogue. Comparable product categories (fasteners, special parts) and similar OEM customer focus, though much larger scale.
• Würth: Global market leader in industrial fasteners, tools and consumables sold through a high-coverage direct sales and e-commerce model. Overlapping SKU breadth in fasteners and fixings makes it the dominant benchmark for Vital Parts' core categories.

Others

• Heyco: US manufacturer of moulded wire and stamped electrical components (strain reliefs, cable glands, hole plugs) and Vital Parts' distribution partner. Comparable product categories in protective caps, plugs and bushings make it an adjacent peer in the electrical-component space.

Regional players

• Cromwell Tools: UK-based industrial supplier of tools, fasteners and maintenance products with broad e-commerce catalogue. Comparable target market of UK engineers and trade buyers though with a heavier tool and consumables mix than Vital Parts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/vitalpartsltd

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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