Multi-Tech Engineering

What Multi-Tech Engineering does

Multi-Tech Engineering (UK) Limited is a privately owned, family-run precision engineering company founded in 1988 by Richard and Deborah Smith in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. It specialises in medium-to-heavy engineering services — CNC and manual machining, boring, grinding, slotting, drilling, welding, fabrication, fitting, assembly, inspection, CAD, and reverse engineering — for customers that supply components or sub-assemblies from drawings, samples, or obsolete-part reverse-engineering briefs. Its primary end-markets are the power generation industry (including nuclear, hydro, coal, gas/steam turbines) and OEM manufacturers, with secondary exposure to packaging, construction, glass, heritage railway, food, transport, retail, and leisure sectors.

The company operates from a single purpose-built 3000m² workshop with 50T overhead crane capacity, 7.50m clearance, temperature control, and 24-hour CCTV monitoring. Its equipment fleet includes HAAS EC1600 YZT and VF-series vertical machining centres, Dean Smith & Grace CNC lathes with up to 6100mm between centres, an Asquith 4FB floor borer with 2440mm rotary table, and supporting Kearns Richards/Butler line-boring machines. Technical capabilities include high-speed machining, 4th-axis and 3D milling, cryogenic shrink-fitting, weld-repair of stainless steel impellers, and coded welding. The firm holds ISO 9001:2008, Achilles UVDB, and CIPS registrations, positioning it for utility and public-sector procurement.

Revenue is generated through bespoke job-shop work priced per project by in-house engineering estimators, with named enterprise customers including Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe, Weir Power & Industrial, eTec Engineering Services (10+ year relationship), Ocean Yacht Systems, and unnamed power-generation utilities. Distribution is exclusively direct sales (phone/email) with no resellers, digital commerce, or self-serve channels; marketing is content/portfolio-driven on the company website and LinkedIn, supplemented by customer testimonials and word-of-mouth.

Name

Multi-Tech Engineering

Legal name

Multi-Tech Engineering (UK) Limited

Website

https://mteuk.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Multi-Tech Engineering (UK) Limited is a family-run precision engineering firm founded in 1988, providing medium-to-heavy machining, fabrication, welding, and reverse engineering to UK power generation (including nuclear) and OEM manufacturers from a 3000m² purpose-built Yorkshire workshop.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (3339)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), General Industrial Machinery & Equipment (3560)

akta.pro primary industry

Systems Engineering & Technical Program Management (BPAHAIAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial Machinery & Rigging (Small-Scale) (HSAKAEAN)

Keywords

• Precision engineering services
• CNC machining services
• Heavy engineering components
• Power industry components
• Welding fabrication services

Headquarters

HQ city

Knottingley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Services (Job-Based Manufacturing): Multi-Tech Engineering generates revenue through bespoke engineering job work, manufacturing components to customer drawings or samples. Services include machining, precision grinding, reverse engineering, welding and fabrication, and refurbishment and repair of full assemblies. Revenue is project-based, derived from customer-specific orders and quotations evaluated by engineering estimators.
2. Professional Engineering Consultancy: The company provides engineering evaluation and cost estimation services as part of its quotation process, offering technical expertise and inspection services to customers across the power and manufacturing industries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Multi-Tech Engineering is a privately owned, family-run engineering company that specialises in medium to heavy engineering, manufacturing a diverse range of components from drawings and samples. Core services include machining (CNC and manual turning, milling, horizontal/vertical boring, precision grinding, slotting, drilling), reverse engineering, welding and fabrication, and the refurbishment and repair of full assemblies. Primary customer deliverables are bespoke valve and turbine components, hydro power guide vanes, fluid control components, and refurbished pumps/assemblies, supplied to enterprise customers throughout the UK in the power and manufacturing sectors.

Product overview

Multi-Tech Engineering is a precision engineering company offering medium to heavy engineering services primarily to the power and manufacturing industry. The company operates from a purpose-built workshop in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. Their core offering is Precision Machining Services encompassing CNC turning, milling, boring (horizontal and vertical), precision grinding, slotting, and drilling. They specialize in manufacturing specialized components for the power industry including Valve and Turbine Components, Hydro Power Project Components (guide vanes), and Fluid Control Components. Beyond machining, they provide Fitting and Assembly Services (gearboxes, pumps, valves, hydraulics), Inspection, CAD, and Reverse Engineering Services, and Fabrication and Welding Services. The company serves diverse sectors including power (nuclear, hydro, coal), packaging, construction, OEM, glass, and heritage railway.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Precision Machining Services Medium to heavy engineering machining services including CNC and manual turning, milling (horizontal and vertical), boring, precision grinding, slotting, and drilling for manufacturing components from drawings and samples. Targeted at enterprises in the power and manufacturing sectors requiring medium to heavy engineered components with high dimensional accuracy.
• Valve and Turbine Components for the Power Industry Specialized manufacturing of valve components and turbine parts for the power generation industry, including nuclear, hydro power, and coal power sectors. Designed for utility operators, OEMs and engineering design firms serving power generation infrastructure.
• Hydro Power Project Components (Guide Vanes) Manufacture of guide vanes and associated components for hydro power installations. Targeted at hydro power plant operators, EPC contractors, and OEMs needing large-format precision components.
• Fluid Control Components Precision fluid control components for various industrial applications. Targeted at industrial OEMs and operators requiring bespoke fluid handling components.
• Fitting and Assembly Services Comprehensive fitting and assembly of gearboxes, drives, pumps, valves, extruder dies, hydraulics, cryogenics, and lapping for both new assemblies and full refurbishments. Includes cryogenic cooling for shrink fitting and precision torqueing. Targeted at enterprises in power, marine, and manufacturing sectors requiring complete mechanical assemblies or refurbishment of existing equipment.
• Inspection, CAD and Reverse Engineering Services Reverse engineering of new components from samples, inspection services, and CAD capabilities using calibrated measuring equipment including a Starrett granite table. Targeted at enterprises that need to replicate obsolete parts, qualify dimensions, or engineer replacement components without original drawings.
• Fabrication and Welding Services MMA, TIG, MAG and Pulse Arc welding of steel, stainless steel and bronzes; light to heavy fabrications, weld repairs, weld overlay, and coded welding to various grades. Targeted at industrial OEMs, power operators, and engineering firms requiring structural fabrication or weld repair of heavy components.
• Pump Refurbishment Services End-to-end refurbishment of large pumps including strip-down, assessment, weld-repair of stainless steel impellers, shaft manufacturing on large manual lathes, pump segment boring, and rebuild using cryogenic shrink fitting and precision torqueing. Targeted at power generation operators needing to extend the service life of high-value rotating equipment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Completed a pump refurbishment (cooling water make-up pump) with only coating outsourced, all other work performed in-house
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Coating Supplier (Unnamed)minorOthersThe company uses a trusted external coating supplier for the coating of refurbished pumps, such as the cooling water make-up pump project. This is the only identified outsourcing partner, with all other work performed in-house.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Brandauer: Brandauer is a Birmingham-based precision engineering business producing complex metal components to tight tolerances. It is a direct peer in the UK precision engineering job-shop market, although its centre of gravity is smaller precision components rather than heavy/large-format parts.
• Hayward Tyler: Hayward Tyler is a UK-based specialist in pumps, motors, and associated engineered components for the power generation market (including nuclear). It is a direct peer competing for the same power-sector custom-engineering and refurbishment work that MTE performs.

Broad incumbents

• Bodycote plc: Bodycote is the world's largest thermal processing services provider, with significant UK operations supporting aerospace, power, and industrial customers. It is a broad incumbent adjacent to MTE's fabrication/welding and refurbishment work, often used by the same OEMs as a complementary service.
• Sulzer Ltd: Sulzer is a Swiss-headquartered industrial engineering group with a substantial UK service-centre network for pumps, turbines, and rotating equipment. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps directly with MTE's pump refurbishment, turbine parts machining, and power-sector service offering.
• Doncasters Group: Doncasters is a large UK-headquartered precision engineering and component manufacturer serving aerospace, power, and industrial markets. It is a broad incumbent that competes with MTE on turbine and industrial components but at significantly larger scale and with a global footprint.
• Weir Group: Weir Group is a UK-listed engineering business focused on mining, power, and industrial flow-control solutions. It is both a customer (Weir Power & Industrial is a named MTE client) and a broad incumbent competitor, offering engineered pumps, valves, and rotating equipment that overlap MTE's machining and refurbishment scope.
• KSB UK: KSB is a global pump and valve manufacturer with significant UK operations serving power, water, and industrial customers. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps MTE's fluid-control, pump refurbishment, and power-sector machining work, although at much larger scale.

Emerging players

• Mettis Aerospace: Mettis Aerospace is a UK-based forging and precision engineering group serving aerospace, defence, and industrial markets. It is an emerging player with partial overlap on precision machined components for safety-critical industrial applications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/multi-tech-engineering-uk-ltd

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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