Buyer's guide
Which TCI division do I need?
Four brands, one workshop, one number. If you'd rather not ring us cold, this is the map.
Intro
Which TCI division do I need?
TCI Group trades as four brands because our customers arrive with four very different jobs in mind. A chocolatier is not the same buyer as a precast concrete yard, and the copy on the page should not pretend otherwise. But behind the four sites there is one team.
If your job is obvious, use the map below. If it isn't, ring us and describe what you're making — we'd rather route you right on the first call than have you guess.
The map
The rule is 'what is the part for'. Not 'what is it made of' — several of our brands make silicone. What the part *does* is what puts it in one division and not another.
Mouldings
You want a custom silicone or polyurethane mould, and the part it produces isn't food or concrete. Candles, resin, plaster, soap, decorative casting. Prototyping. Small studios and one-off jobs are welcome here.
Culinary
The part touches food. Bakery, patisserie, chocolate, confectionery, cocktail programmes. Food-safe silicone grades, documented material specs, and sized to your depositor and oven.
Construction
The part is concrete or the tool moulds concrete. Formliners, GRC, cast stone, restoration. Silicone that survives alkaline concrete and repeated release.
Products
You want finished moulded parts at volume — rubber, silicone, PU — going into your assembly line or landing on your shelf. Compression, LSR injection, contract manufacturing.
Quick reference
A one-glance version of the guide above.
If it's a mould, and the part isn't food or concrete
→ Mouldings
If it's food-contact
→ Culinary
If it's concrete or a concrete tool
→ Construction
If it's a finished part at volume
→ Products
If it touches two of those at once
→ Ring the group number
If you genuinely can't tell
→ Ring the group number
In closing
One more thing.
The four brands share the same engineering team, workshop, and quality system. So picking wrong is not a disaster — we route internally. But picking right first time saves everyone half a phone call.
Related reading
Where to read next.
One quote, four divisions — how our group quoting works.
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Silicone vs polyurethane vs rubber — which route.
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Never bought a moulded part before? Start here.
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The group
Where this fits in the group
Four specialist teams share our workshop, our engineering bench and a single quality system. Pick a doorway, or ring us and we'll route you.
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
Five brands, one team
Swipe to see the whole diagram
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