FREE sourcing support for qualified business buyers, with an eligible benefit of up to 3%. Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements. That review includes etch versus through-cut and whether the art file already carries kerf compensation.

Independent sourcing partner · routes job-shop one-off art and parts RFQs · NDA available before CAD is forwarded

Fiber laser cutting a mild-steel nest in a job-shop cell used as a buyer reference, not a claimed owned asset

Independent sourcing partner for US buyers

custom laser cutting

Job shops that quote mixed one-off art and functional parts need one locked brief before any plant prices the nest. Custom Laser Cutting Sourcing is an independent sourcing partner: we circulate that brief, collect mill wholesale replies, and line up piece, freight, duty, and inspection columns on the same destination. We do not run a cutter and we do not wear a shop certificate as our own.

How matching works

20RFQ lines a one-off art-and-parts buyer should freeze

3File kinds: PDF, DXF/STEP, and the art file that already shows kerf compensation

5Process questions: etch vs through-cut, gas, HAZ, yield, and art-file kerf

7Document questions sent to a candidate shop

6Landed-cost buckets split before ranking two mill replies

What a comparable custom laser cutting brief must carry

Matching starts after the buyer names a shared technical basis. A shop name or a single nest price cannot replace the items below. Drawing revision, material, thickness, quantity, inspection, destination and Incoterms stay on one sheet.

Drawing lock

PDF plus STEP or DXF with a revision letter. Unversioned screenshots of a logo panel are not comparable.

Material grade

Name 304, 316, 5052, 6061 or the mill spec. Generic “stainless” is not enough for heat or coating notes on a branded face.

Thickness & kerf

State gauge or millimetres and whether kerf compensation already lives in the art file, or the controller must apply it once.

Quantity split

Separate prototype, production lot and EAU. One-off art nests and repeating part nests do not share the same yield.

Inspection plan

Say if FAI, CMM, CoC or mill cert is in scope, and which logo edges or hole datums are checkable.

Destination

City or ZIP plus Incoterms. Ex-works numbers are not a US delivered total.

Inquiry families on this desk

These cards open the existing RFQ modal. They are not inventory and they do not add product-detail pages.

Documents to request from a candidate factory

ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100, ISO 13485, NADCAP, ITAR, RoHS and REACH stay with the supplier and the part. This desk does not hold those certificates.

ISO 9001Ask whether the quality system covers the cutting cell that will run your nest, not a sister plant.
Material mill certAsk for heat number traceability on stainless and aluminum lots when the drawing requires it.
FAI / CMM packName datum features, logo-edge callouts, and Ra notes that must appear on the first-article report.
CoC + finish notePowder, passivation ASTM A967, or anodizing Type II/III must be written as included or excluded on branded faces.

Buyer checklists sent after contact

Files are not stored as public downloads. Use the RFQ channel; we return a checklist tied to your drawing revision, including whether the art file already carries kerf compensation.

RFQ field list for custom laser cuttingRequest
Inspection and mill-cert question sheetRequest
Landed-cost split templateRequest
Etch vs through-cut and art-file kerf questionsOpen checklist

Submit specifications so mills price the same art-and-parts nest

Independent sourcing partner. No savings percentage is published. Eligibility for FREE sourcing support of up to 3% is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements. That review includes etch versus through-cut on branded panels.