Beautifully engineered custom-formed metal tubes
Metal tubes designed to improve aesthetics and functionality across a diverse range of applications
World renowned tubing solutions
For more than 35 years, Timeless Tube has been helping engineers, designers, architects and manufacturers improve designs with our cold-formed non-circular tube profiles.
We are an award-winning team of innovators based in Dorset, on the South coast of England. Our unique cold-forming tools are used to transform standard round tube material into precision non-circular profiles, resulting in an extensive range of stainless steel, aluminium and non-ferrous profiles boasting widespread benefits: from improved appearance to increased weight-bearing strength.
Today our profiles are specified worldwide across architecture, transport, manufacturing, marine, furniture, retail, lighting, medical equipment and OEM applications.
Whether you need a single prototype or thousands of production lengths, every tube is manufactured with the same attention to quality and engineering detail.
Prototypes and product development: low MOQs and flexible sizing options
Many of our customers begin with an engineering problem rather than an existing tube size or profile.
Our team regularly works with product designers, OEMs, architects and fabricators to develop new profiles that improve performance and safety, simplify fabrication, enhance aesthetics or reduce manufacturing costs.
Our extensive manufacturing database contains dimensions from thousands of previous production runs, allowing us to advise whether an existing profile may already achieve your design objectives before developing an entirely new tube section.
Unlike many alternative manufacturing processes, our proprietary cold-forming technology and flexible tooling allows us to make bespoke tube profiles commercially viable, without the high tooling costs or long lead times often associated with custom extrusion or roll-forming.
Please note, we have a minimum order quantity of one length, which is just under 6 metres long. There is a £50 set-up fee for all orders under 5 lengths.
Premium grade metals
Most of our tubes are manufactured from stainless steel as it offers excellent resistance to corrosion. We use two grades of premium-quality stainless steel; stainless steel 304L (1.4301), which is the most popular industry grade, and stainless steel 316L (1.4404), which contains a higher nickel and molybdenum content for greater corrosive resistance.
We also use aluminium 5083, aluminium 6063 T6, titanium, copper, brass and bronze. (We can work with other metals provided they are non-ferrous).
To ensure the optimal quality of our tube profiles, we only partner with leading metal suppliers.
Why engineers choose Timeless Tube
- Award-winning manufacturing innovation
- 35+ years of specialist tube-forming expertise
- Unique proprietary cold-forming process
- One of the widest ranges of non-circular tube profiles available
- Single-length minimum order
- Rapid prototype development
- Extensive manufacturing database based on real production data
- Technical engineering support — not just product supply
- In-house bending, fabrication and finishing servces
We’re proud to have pioneered some ‘world first’ tubing designs. But we’re equally proud of the care we give our clients. We won’t try to sell you a service or finish unless you actually need it. Our approach is transparent – and we listen well so that we can meet your needs.
If you need any further tube processing such as fabrication, polishing, welding and machining, speak to us about managing this for you as it could save you time and money. We have extensive bend tooling in our workshop that allows us to bend several of our tube profiles.
Contact us for expert advice, quotes and free samples.
Our tubing is custom-manufactured, which means we cannot give you a quotation until we know some specific requirements.
Help us to quote more efficiently by providing us with as many details as you can in the enquiry form below. If you need guidance about the options available, please let us know in the additional notes section.
Thank you for your enquiry!
We will get back to you as soon as possible.
If you haven’t already provided this information, we are likely to ask you for these details when we contact you:
- Tube profile and size
- Material and grade
- Wall thickness, if known
- Quantity required, and if this is a prototype or production requirement
- Required cut lengths
- Fabrication requirements (e.g. bending, laser cutting, polishing, machining, connecting)
- Application / end use
- Critical dimensions and tolerances
- Delivery location (shipping costs are often quoted separately following the initial manufacturing quotation)
- Required timescale
- Drawings or CAD files (especially useful for new sizes, new profiles and fabrication enquiries)
Understanding more about your project helps us to quote the most appropriate tubing solution.
If you would prefer to talk to us or ask any technical questions, phone us on +44 (0)1202 666560 or email us with your phone number and we will call you. Please include your international dialling code if you are not based in the UK.
Please share drawings or CAD files by email, quoting your name and company.
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Need help finding the right tube?
Talk to a specialist and find the right tube for your project.
Discover our product range
View our unique shaped metal tube profiles and joining systems.
