Welding student’s fighting chance in national finals

Date: 29/11/2021

YORKSHIRE Laser and Fabrication are proud to have helped give Wakefield College’s Yasmin Whale a fighting chance as she competed in the national welding finals of the WorldSkills UK competition. Yasmin beat off stiff competition from some 400 applicants to become one of ten apprentices and students invited to take part in the finals of [read more]


Prototype your lightbulb gem to make it real

Date: 27/09/2021

WE’VE all had those lightbulb moments when a gem of an idea for a new product has come to us but few of us go on to actually turn those flashes of inspiration into reality. Maybe that’s because we don’t know how to go about it. Who can help us draw up plans? How does [read more]


Possible hope amidst continuing steel supply volatility

Date: 11/08/2021

AS anticipated earlier in the year, steel prices have continued to increase in recent months, reaching an all-time high in Europe. In line with this, materials continue to be in short demand driven increasingly by summer shutdowns for holidays and maintenance. While the volatility of the global steel market has fast become, frustratingly, the norm, [read more]


YLF – precision fabrication at its best!

Date: 15/07/2021

THERE can’t be anything worse as a consumer than to shell out for an item only to have it repeatedly failing due to one small (or large) part of it. Whether you complain to the manufacturer and seek to replace the failing part or discard the item and forget about it, one thing’s for certain, [read more]


New jobs at Yorkshire Laser and Fabrication

Date: 21/06/2021

INCREASING demand for Yorkshire’s leading-edge laser cutting and sheet metal fabrication firm’s services has led to the creation of a number of new jobs. Yorkshire Laser and Fabrication (YLF) in Normanton has recruited 10 extra members of staff including 8 new operators, a Head of Operations and an additional CAD Engineer in the last six [read more]