03 Why Solstice
Far East pricing, without taking on a Far East supplier.
The cost advantage of Chinese casting production is real and well established. What normally stops UK buyers from using it is everything around the casting — the supplier vetting, the language, the freight, the payment terms, the risk. Solstice exists to absorb all of that.
You get the unit price of a Far East factory, and the accountability of a UK supplier standing behind it.
Unit pricing
Production runs through established Far East manufacturing capacity, at costs a UK-tooled foundry generally can't match — passed on directly in your price.
One relationship
You deal with Solstice. We hold the supplier relationships, the audits and the language barrier, so your team doesn't have to.
No import admin
Freight, customs clearance and duties are handled on your behalf. Parts land on your goods-in like any other UK order.
UK commercial terms
UK contract law, a UK invoice in sterling, and a UK company you can visit, call or hold to account.
Flexible volumes
From prototype tooling through to ongoing series production — we scale the order, not just the one-off run.
Transparent quoting
One quote covers tooling, unit price, finishing and delivered cost to your door — no landed-cost surprises after the fact.
The honest trade-off
Lower cost takes longer to land — that's the only real compromise.
International tooling and freight mean longer lead times than a job already sitting on a UK press. We plan programme timelines around that from the first quote, rather than let it become a surprise at week six — and it's the one place a domestic foundry still has a genuine edge over us for very short-notice or emergency runs.