Thank you all for the replies, it helps a lot!!
We are checking Olymex and 3D Hub.
@Alti -> yes prices were in DKK - just converting to USD for simplicity
And yes that was what I meant, if the price is $98+k*$1, then it means we paid $50 per unit for 2, and will therefore be $1.1 per unit for 1000. But we do not know the details of the price.
Based on all your comments, we decided to go with the following:
1) Custom design our own enclosure for stainless steel - 2 pieces assembled in U-shape or L-shape
2) We will try to follow the usual guidelines about tolerances, bends, etc., hoping it will fit most of the manufacturers without any extra costs
3) Once we have the files we will ask a couple of manufacturers to have a price for 1000, both locally in Denmark, in EU, and also in China.
Our problem with China is to find the manufacturers, for some reason it is really easy to find PCB manufacturers/assemblers from China, but quite hard to find enclosure manufacturers. We were thinking of using alibaba to find them - any thoughts on that?
Thanks
Simon