TCI Group
A silicone moulding company
with four front doors.
TCI Group designs and develops silicone and polyurethane tooling in the UK, with UK moulding capability behind it. Five moulded routes. Four divisions. One phone number, and one engineering team that answers it.
Who we are
A group is only useful if it saves you working out who to ring.
You have a part in mind. It might be a candle, a chocolate bar, a piece of precast concrete, or a rubber seal that goes into somebody else's assembly. You should not have to work out which of our four brands is the right way in. Ring one number, describe what you're making, and we'll route you correctly the first time.
Four front doors
One workshop, four specialist teams.
Each division has its own site and its own specialists. They share our bench, our engineers and one quality system.
Custom silicone and polyurethane moulds.
Custom silicone and polyurethane moulds for decorative, creative and industrial casting. Prototyping and short-run tooling start here.
Food-safe silicone for patisserie and confectionery.
Food-contact silicone for bakeries, patisserie, chocolate and confectionery. PFAS-free, platinum-cure grades with written material specs.
Formliners, GRC and precast concrete tooling.
Formliners, GRC, precast and heritage tooling. Silicone built to survive alkaline concrete and repeated release.
OEM silicone and rubber at volume.
Finished silicone and rubber parts at volume. Compression, LSR injection and contract manufacturing under your brand.
The group layer
What TCI Group adds on top of the divisions.
Most jobs sit neatly inside one division. The ones that don't — a kitchen tool that becomes a retail product, a precast yard that also needs rubber seals, a prototype that grows into volume — are where the group earns its place.
One engineer, one quote, one quality system and one plan across every division your work touches.
Five moulding routes
Five routes. Everything else is how the tool gets made.
Whichever division you land in, the same five moulding routes are on the table. Volume, tolerance, and material dictate which one fits.
Hand-made
Bench-built silicone, straight onto a pattern or an existing object. Where prototyping and short-run tooling start.
Cast
Two-part gravity pours. The workhorse — one cavity, decent surface, sensible cost.
Vacuum cast
Degassed pours for parts that can't carry a single trapped bubble. Tight tolerances, tens to a few hundred.
Compression
Solid silicone pressed and cured under heat in a steel tool. Thousands of parts per tool.
Injection / LSR
Liquid silicone rubber injected at volume. Repeat parts, unit cost dropping as volume rises.
How we work
Six commitments with every order, from a single mould upwards.
A response the same working day
Every enquiry gets a human reply the same day it lands. If we need longer to price it properly, we'll tell you why and when to expect the number.
Tooling and unit cost, itemised
Two lines on the quote. What the tool costs to build, and what each part costs once it's running. Nothing rolled up to look cheap on order one.
Written material spec, every job
The mould leaves with a document that says what it's made of, what it's rated to, and what it isn't for. Fine to hand straight to an auditor.
UK design, UK moulding capability
Design and development in the UK. Manufacturing capability in the UK, with some higher volume placed with partners where that's the right answer.
A single point of contact
One engineer runs your job. Not a queue, not a portal-only conversation. You have their name and their direct line.
No minimum for the first tool
A single hand-made mould is a real order. We won't push you into volume tooling before it's the right economics.
The group
Which division do I need?
Four specialist teams under one roof. Each one has its own site, its own paperwork, and its own domain — but they share a workshop, an engineering bench, and a single quality system.
Where to next
Not sure where to start? Try one of these.
Which division do I need?
A short buyer's guide to picking Mouldings, Culinary, Construction or Products.
Silicone vs PU vs rubber
The materials we run, and which is right for what.
When to consolidate suppliers
An honest guide to when one supplier makes sense, and when it doesn't.
Scaling across divisions
How a part moves between our divisions as it grows.
Case studies
Ten anonymised multi-division jobs we've delivered.
Sectors
Pages for procurement, supply chain, engineering and start-up buyers.
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
Which route suits your quantity
Swipe to see the whole diagram
FAQs
Questions we hear before your first order.
Do I have to know which division I need before I get in touch?
No. Describe what you're making — we'll route you to the right team internally. Most first-contact enquiries come in through the Group phone number.
Is one team behind all four brands?
Yes. Same workshop, same engineering bench, same quality system. The brands are how we present specialist work to specialist audiences, not separate companies.
Where is the manufacturing done?
Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. UK manufacturing capability, with some higher-volume production placed with trusted partners where that's the right commercial answer.
What's the minimum order?
There isn't one for tooling. A single hand-made mould is fine. For finished parts, minimums depend on the process — hand-cast has none, injection tooling only makes sense above a few thousand parts a year.
Get in touch
Not sure which division? Tell us what you're making.
Send us a sketch, a photograph, or a paragraph. We'll come back with the right division, the right route, and an honest sense of what it will take.
Real people, a real workshop
You deal with the people who make it.
No call centre and no middlemen. When you contact TCI Group, you speak to the team who design, build and check your mould.
- A real Warwickshire workshopUnit 15, Waterloo Park, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester B50 4JG.
- Real people on the phoneCall the team on 01789 224228, Monday to Friday.
- The same team on every jobDesign, production and aftercare come from the people you see here.
- Five brands, one teamMoulds, culinary, construction and contract products, all run from Bidford-on-Avon. See the divisions.
Thomas LaneManaging Director
George PrestonDesign & Project Manager
Kelly BallingerHead of Partnerships
Jim AndertonProduction Manager
TheodoreEmployee Welfare