Cast Iron CAD Brighton & Hove · est. 2010

Product design · Sussex

Product design and engineering across Sussex

Cast Iron CAD works with product businesses across Sussex from its base at Plus X Innovation Brighton: 280+ products taken from concept to manufacture over 15 years, with clients from Shoreham and Worthing round to Lewes and Eastbourne.

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The practical bit

Sussex has a lot of product businesses and not many engineering practices that take a product all the way from a sketch to a factory. That’s the gap we sit in. The work splits roughly into three kinds: new products that need designing properly the first time, existing products that need cost or performance engineering, and manufacturing-support work where something is already in production and misbehaving.

Distance inside the county is never the problem; we’ve run projects with people twenty minutes away and people on other continents. What the county location gets you is the option of doing the physical parts physically: prototypes on the bench, first articles inspected together, a workshop session instead of a video call when the geometry gets contentious.

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Credentials, briefly

The practice is engineer-led and has been since 2010. I’m a mechanical engineer by background, with over 25 years across polymer products, oil and gas, filtration, ATEX safety equipment and consumer goods before and alongside Cast Iron CAD, and I lecture for the Product Design and Engineering courses at the University of Brighton. The practice runs lean on purpose: the person you scope with is the person who does the work.

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What clients say

It’s great to be able to collaborate with other businesses in Plus-X, and was a particular joy to work with Dave of Cast Iron CAD

James Kelly, Director at CmdShiftR

Dave at Cast-Iron CAD consistently produces high-quality, accurate drawings for our LineWorx drainage systems. His attention to detail, technical knowledge, and responsiveness make the design process smooth and efficient.

Scott Chamberlain, LineWorx, Google review
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Where to start

If you’re anywhere in Sussex with a product that needs designing, improving or rescuing, get in touch and we can talk it through. If it’s an early-stage idea, the free structured sprint at our supporting practice Innovate Engineer is the honest first step, and it costs you nothing but fifteen minutes.

Get in touch

Get in touch and we can talk it through.

+44 (0)1273 252523 · Studio 01, Plus X Innovation Brighton, BN2 4GL