Makefast News

Makefast has always prided itself in its long history of mentoring apprentices, and have had many success stories of young people embarking upon a career in manufacturing and engineering. Read more

Makefast Ltd was founded in 1974 by Bill and Brenda Brown and David Bray. The only equipment they had was a second hand lathe, a fly press and a TIG welding set. Read more

The Makefast Group has an exciting few months coming up as we’re exhibiting at a number of marine and safety trade shows over the autumn - the Cannes Boat Show, IBEX show in Florida, and METS Show at Amsterdam RAI. We will be displaying, among many products, our new bathing platform and lifeline systems. Read more

In its first year of trading, Makefast’s specialist subsidiary - Custom Marine Developments (CMD) has nearly doubled its target. CMD have already invoiced £150k since April this year, with an order book of over £500k and further enquiries over £1m. The future is looking exciting! Read more

As part of the Makefast Group’s drive for ever improving quality and capacity, our Precision Engineer subsidiary have taken delivery of a brand new, cutting edge hi-tech horizontal mutli-turret CNC lathe by Doosan. This is in addition to the Star Lathe also based at Precision Engineer. Read more

Makefast Ltd would like to congratulate our valued boat-builder customer from Poland, Galeon, on their winning of the 2018 Innovative On-board Design Solution award at the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam. Read more

At the end of last year Makefast sponsored Kelda Woods’ solo Trans-Atlantic rowing expedition. We are overjoyed to announce she has made it safely to the Dominican Republic! Read more