Stainless Tube & Needle Co.

What Stainless Tube & Needle Co. does

Stainless Tube & Needle Co. Ltd (trading as STN) is a privately held UK specialist manufacturer and distributor of small bore stainless steel tubing, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Tamworth, Staffordshire. The company sources, stocks, and manipulates stainless steel tubing from 0.1mm to 18mm inner diameter in 304 and 316 grades, offering products in standard gauge, thin wall, special size, and miscellaneous variants in 1–3 metre lengths or cut to specification. It also manufactures hollow needles and probes for medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, and broader industrial use cases.

Its underlying capability centres on precision tube manipulation: cut blanks to length, bending, drilling, slotting, rotary swaging, upsetting, and brazing, with proprietary burr-free fine tube cutting developed over decades. The company is UKAS approved to BS EN ISO 9001:2015, which functions as a baseline quality gate for regulated customers. Operations are conducted at a single UK site with a headcount of 1–10 employees.

Commercially, STN operates a sales-led B2B motion combining a stockist/wholesale role in standard catalogue tubing with a custom component-manufacturing service where items are produced to customer drawings in both prototype and production quantities. It claims global supply to leading manufacturers across medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food & drink, fibre optics, electronics, and chemical industries, with customer acquisition driven by telephone sales, a website enquiry form, and downloadable PDF catalogues rather than digital e-commerce. The firm is independently owned with no disclosed institutional shareholders, no disclosed revenue, and no public funding or M&A history.

Name

Stainless Tube & Needle Co.

Legal name

Stainless Tube & Needle Co Ltd

Website

https://stainlesstubeandneedle.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stainless Tube & Needle Co. is a UK-based specialist supplier and manufacturer of small bore stainless steel tubing (0.1mm to 18mm ID) in 304/316 grades, plus custom-manufactured needles, probes, and machined components, serving medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food & drink, fibre optics, electronics, and chemical manufacturers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Stainless Steel Tubing and Needle Manufacturing

NAICS

Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel (33121)

SIC

Steel Pipe & Tubes (3317)

akta.pro primary industry

Pipe & Tube Manufacturing (Seamless & Welded OCTG/Line Pipe/Structural Tube) (IMAKABAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Steel Service Centers & Processing (Slitting, Cut-to-Length, Blanking, Leveling) (IMAKABAL)

Keywords

• Small bore stainless tubing
• Stainless steel needles
• Precision tube manipulation
• Medical grade tubing
• Custom tube components

Headquarters

HQ city

Tamworth

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Stainless Steel Tubing Sales: Sale of stainless steel tubing in standard sizes (304/316 grade) and special sizes. Products supplied in 1, 2, or 3 metre lengths or cut to customer specifications.
2. Custom Component Manufacturing: Machining and manipulation services including cutting, bending, drilling, slotting, rotary swaging, upsetting, and brazing to produce custom components from stainless steel tube to customer drawings
3. Hollow Needle Manufacturing: Manufacture of hollow needles for medical environments used alongside syringes to infuse and extract liquids
4. Tube Cutting Services: Cutting services for stainless steel tubes to customer-specific lengths with burr-free precision

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Stainless Tube & Needle Co. is a UK-based manufacturer, stockist and distributor of small bore stainless steel tubing (0.1mm ID to 18mm ID) in 304/316 grades, and a producer of stainless steel needles, probes and custom-machined components. The company cuts, bends, drills, slots, rotary swages, upsets and brazes tubing to customer drawings for medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food & drink, fibre optics, electronics and chemical manufacturers worldwide.

Product overview

Stainless Tube & Needle Co. is a manufacturer and supplier of small bore stainless steel tubing and precision components. The core product portfolio centers on stainless steel tubes (0.1mm ID to 18mm ID) in 304/316 grades offered across multiple variants (standard gauge, thin wall, special sizes, and miscellaneous stock), complemented by manufactured needles and probes including hollow needles for medical applications. The company provides tube cutting and manipulation services (bending, drilling, slotting, rotary swaging, upsetting, brazing) to convert stock materials into custom components. Products serve medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food & drink, fibre optics, electronics, chemical, model makers, and prototype manufacturing industries worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stainless Steel Tube Stockists Stockists and suppliers of small bore stainless steel tubing ranging from 0.1mm ID to 18mm ID, in 304/316 grades supplied as standard gauge, thin wall, special sizes and miscellaneous stock. Available in 1, 2 or 3 metre lengths or cut to customer specifications, for medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food & drink, fibre optics, electronics and chemical manufacturers.
• Stainless Steel Needles & Probes Manufactured stainless steel needles and probes made from corrosion-resistant stainless steel for medical, ophthalmic, orthodontic, veterinary, food and drink, electronics and chemical applications. Produced to demanding tolerance and finish requirements for use in harsh and hygienic environments.
• Hollow Needles Hollow stainless steel needles used in medical environments alongside syringes to infuse and extract liquids. Formed from stainless steel for strength, hygiene and corrosion resistance, supporting infection-prevention requirements in clinical use.
• Tube Cutting Services Precision tube cutting service that delivers fine stainless steel tubes cut to customer-specified lengths with burr-free finishing. Developed expertise in cutting fine tubes supplied burr free to support downstream component manufacturing.
• Custom Component Manufacturing Custom machining and manipulation services producing stainless steel components and sub-assemblies to customer drawings. Capabilities include cut blanks to length, bending, drilling, slotting, rotary swaging, upsetting and brazing, with material versatility across stainless steel, brass, aluminium and copper.

Named customers8 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Becton Dickinson (BD): Global medical technology company manufacturing hollow needles, syringes and infusion products that consume large volumes of small-bore stainless steel tubing. Comparable as the primary downstream user of STN-style needle/tube components.
• Sandvik: Global engineering group with a materials technology division that manufactures stainless steel and specialty alloy tubing, including precision small-diameter tubes for medical, industrial and process applications. Directly comparable core product category but at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Swagelok: Global designer and manufacturer of fluid system components including stainless steel tubing and fittings. Overlapping product category but serving a much broader portfolio of process and instrumentation customers.

Emerging players

• Vygon: French medical device manufacturer specialising in single-use needles, catheters and infusion products, including stainless steel needle and tube components. Comparable downstream customer of small-bore stainless steel tubing and hollow needle supply.

Direct peers

• Accu-Tube: US precision stainless steel tubing manufacturer serving medical device OEMs with tight-tolerance small-diameter tubes. Highly comparable in terms of product range, medical industry focus and component manufacturing capabilities.
• Hamilton Company: US precision instrument manufacturer that produces stainless steel tubing and needle components for analytical, medical and life-science instruments. Comparable in small-bore stainless steel needle and tube manufacturing expertise.
• Minitubes: French precision stainless steel tubing manufacturer specialising in small-diameter tubes for medical devices and minimally invasive instruments. Directly comparable in terms of small bore ID range, medical end-market focus and value-added component manufacturing.
• Superior Tube Company: US-based manufacturer of small-diameter precision stainless steel, nickel and titanium tubes for aerospace, medical and industrial markets. Comparable small-bore precision product focus with broader alloy coverage.
• MicroGroup (part of KMC Systems): Manufacturer of small-diameter stainless steel tubing, needle components and custom fabricated medical parts. Closely comparable niche specialty manufacturer serving medical device OEMs.
• Fine Tubes: UK-based manufacturer of precision stainless steel and high-nickel alloy tubes for medical, aerospace, nuclear and oil & gas markets. Closest like-for-like peer in terms of stainless steel precision tubing focus and UK heritage.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stainless-steel-tubing

Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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