FACTORY-DIRECT · CONTAINER LOADS · UK DUTY PAID
The trading company, done properly

Direct factory prices,
delivered,
one number.

Any engineering goods you buy by the pallet — grating and handrail, steelwork, aluminium, fasteners — straight from the factories that make them. Drop your buying list — an RFQ, a spreadsheet, a PDF, a photo of someone else's quote — and see every landed price instantly: goods, tariffs & duties, freight + trucking and customs entry in one delivered, duty-paid number to our Ipswich dock, or on to your site.

No account needed. Price as many containers as you like. When you're happy, lock the price — it holds for 48 hours, no payment due now, and we call to confirm the details.
Start here — it's live
Type in the box, or drop a PDF, spreadsheet or photo on it. Mix anything on one list. Three questions at most, then your priced container — nothing to fill in, no account. Standard sizes are priced firm; anything to drawing or needing tooling is flagged and confirmed when you lock.
How it works

Three steps from a messy list to a locked, delivered price.

No forms to fill in properly, no waiting for a salesperson to come back to you. The price is on screen before you've finished your tea.

STEP 01

Drop your buying list

Sizes, brands, part lists, a photo of a quote. Messy is fine — brand names become Hubble equivalents, headers apply to the size schedules under them, "4 clips per m²" gets worked out for you. GRP, steel, aluminium and fasteners on the same list is normal.

70 no 500 x 780 — 38mm GRP, dark grey 12 lengths galv angle 50 x 50 x 5, 6 m 20 no alu extrusion 6063 50 x 50 x 3, 6 m 200 no M10 x 50 A4 hex bolts
STEP 02

See the landed price

Every line priced delivered, duty paid to our Ipswich dock — or on to your postcode — with the one number split into goods, tariffs & duties, freight + trucking and customs entry. Your goods packed into a 20' or 40'HC on screen, and into a second container if they need one.

GRP grating 38 mm 3660 x 1220 grey ×50 … £128.21 /panel (≈ £28.72/m²) Alu 5-bar tread plate 3 mm 2500 x 1250 ×10 … £152.40 /sheet Goods £6,934 · Freight £1,120 · Duty £0 · Customs £15 40'HC · 27% full · 4,613 kg
STEP 03

Lock the price

Happy? Lock it. The price holds for 48 hours, nothing is paid now, and we call you to confirm the details, the delivery window and your PO. Not happy? Change quantities, add or remove items and re-calculate in seconds.

🔒 Price locked until Thu 10 Sep, 14:32 No payment due now — we'll call 07700 900123 to confirm.
Who you buy from

You buy from Hubble. One contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door.

One contract

Hubble is your supplier of record. Factory, export, ocean freight, UK customs and delivery are our problem, on one invoice, in pounds.

The price holds

Lock a quote and it stays fixed while we confirm — through a second container if your load needs one. No surprise freight or duty lines later. Anything non-standard or made to drawing is flagged on the quote and confirmed, with any tooling, before it's final.

Our people on the floor

Factories we have worked with for years — India first, and wherever the right maker is. We inspect before the container is stuffed: dimensions, welds and galvanising, resin and grit, colour, packing. The photos travel with the shipment.

Beat my quote

Upload the quotation you have today. We read their prices, price the equivalent lines factory-direct and show the saving line by line — honestly, including where we don't win.

The engine

An AI that reads. Maths that doesn't guess.

The model does the reading — your list, the market, the customs records. Every pound on the quote comes from deterministic arithmetic you could check with a calculator.

  1. Reads your list like a procurement engineerText, spreadsheets, PDFs and photos in; normalised line items out, with weights, dimensions and HS codes filled from Hubble's reference tables.
  2. Finds the factory priceHubble's own pricing history first; where a product is new, the agent reads the exporting country's published customs records and supplier listings and sanity-checks them against UN trade statistics.
  3. Duty, line by lineUK import duty by tariff heading, applying trade agreements where they apply (UK–India today), and freight on chargeable weight — not a percentage slapped on the bottom.
  4. Packed by algorithmYour goods are stacked, bundled and placed into 20' or 40'HC boxes with a real floor plan, weight limits and a forklift limit per package — then drawn in 3D so you can see it.
Who it's for

If you buy it by the pallet, you should be buying it by the container.

Container-load pricing used to be for the biggest distributors. With the reading, pricing and packing done by software, a full or part container is a ten-minute decision for anyone who stocks, fabricates or installs — grating, steelwork, aluminium, or the fasteners that hold it all together.

Price a container Or email us your list
  • GRP & steel grating distributors and stockists
  • Flooring, access and handrail installers
  • Steel and aluminium fabricators — ladders, platforms, frames
  • Fastener and fixings wholesalers
  • Water, rail, energy and marine contractors
  • Facilities and estates teams with a rolling programme
  • Anyone with a UK quote they'd like beaten