Thomas Lane
Managing Director
Runs TCI Group and sets the direction for all five brands. On larger or unusual projects, Thomas is usually part of the conversation.
TCI Group · About
How we're put together, and how a job actually flows through.
TCI is a Warwickshire silicone moulding company. Four specialist divisions in one workshop, sharing one engineering team and one quality system.
Our people
The people behind every TCI mould.
The same small team works across all five TCI brands, so the person who quotes your job is never far from the person who builds it.
George Preston
Design & Project Manager
Turns your drawing, sketch or sample into a mould design, then keeps the project moving from first idea to sign-off.
Kelly Ballinger
Head of Partnerships
Looks after the businesses we work with over the long term, from the first enquiry through to repeat orders.
Jim Anderton
Production Manager
Runs the workshop floor, plans each build and makes sure every mould is checked before it leaves us.
Theodore
Employee Welfare
Our cocker spaniel. Keeps spirits up in the office and gives every delivery a thorough sniff.
One workshop, four front doors
Four brands, one engineering team behind them.
Techcraft Industries Mouldings Ltd trades under four brands so that specialist customers land on specialist content. The engineering, the workshop and the quality system are shared. A chandler and a precast yard get very different sites — because they're chasing very different outcomes — but they get the same team.
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.
How a job flows
From first enquiry to a running tool.
- 01
Enquiry
A drawing, a photograph, or a paragraph. We come back the same working day with a route recommendation and a rough number.
- 02
Design and DFM
The mould is designed around the part. Draft, parting lines, vents, and how it comes off the pattern.
- 03
Pattern and tool
Master pattern machined, printed or sculpted. Silicone poured, pressed or injected around it, depending on route.
- 04
First-off approval
You get first-off parts to sign off. Any changes are made before we call the tool released.
- 05
Run and reorder
You take the tool, or leave it with us and reorder parts. Either way, the paperwork is your permanent record of what the mould is.
Inside the workshop
Four stages you'd see on a walk round.
Design
CAD and DFM
Moulds designed around the part, with draft, parting lines and vents worked out on screen.
Pour
Silicone tooling
Silicone poured, pressed or injected around the master, depending on route.
Release
Demould and finish
Tools opened, parts released and finished by hand where needed.
Check
Measure and record
First-off parts measured and recorded before any tool is released.
Where the divisions sit
Four brands, one workshop.
TCI Mouldings
Custom silicone and polyurethane moulds.
Custom silicone and polyurethane moulds for decorative, creative and industrial casting. Prototyping and short-run tooling start here.
TCI Culinary
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.
TCI Construction
Formliners, GRC and precast concrete tooling.
Formliners, GRC, precast and heritage tooling. Silicone built to survive alkaline concrete and repeated release.
TCI Products
OEM silicone and rubber at volume.
Finished silicone and rubber parts at volume. Compression, LSR injection and contract manufacturing under your brand.
How to find us
Bidford-on-Avon, ten minutes off the M40.
Unit 15, Waterloo Park, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester B50 4JG. Ring first if you want to visit — the front door opens onto a workshop, not a reception, and we like to have someone waiting for you.
Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00. Out-of-hours by arrangement for existing customers.
Designed and developed in the UK. UK moulding capability, with some higher-volume production placed with trusted partners where that's the right commercial answer.
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