TCI Group · What we do
Twelve group services, four divisions, five moulding routes.
Whichever division you land in, the same five moulding routes are on the table. The group layer adds the services that only make sense across all four.
Common jobs
Six shapes of work we take regularly.
A one-off decorative mould
Hand-made silicone, cast once, in your hand within weeks. Goes through TCI Mouldings.
A repeat bakery tray
Food-safe silicone, sized to your depositor plate. Goes through TCI Culinary.
Precast formliner for a panel run
Silicone surface tooling that survives alkaline concrete. Goes through TCI Construction.
A rubber component you'll reorder every quarter
Compression or LSR injection, quoted tooling and unit cost as separate lines. Goes through TCI Products.
Restoration for a listed elevation
Hand-made silicone rebuilding a lost detail. Goes through TCI Construction.
A finished silicone product carrying your brand
OEM manufacturing under your label, packaged to your spec. Goes through TCI Products.
Five moulding routes
The tool changes. The rest of how we work stays the same.
Volume, tolerance, and material dictate which route fits. A modest hand-cast prototype tool or a full steel injection tool — the same paperwork discipline sits behind both.
Hand-made
Brushed or poured by hand. Cheapest tool, fastest to a working mould, best for one-offs and low volumes.
Cast
Two-part gravity pours. The workhorse route for tens to low hundreds of parts.
Vacuum cast
Degassed pours for parts that can't carry any trapped air. Tighter cosmetic tolerances.
Compression
Solid silicone pressed under heat in a steel tool. Consistent parts, thousands per tool.
Injection / LSR
Liquid silicone rubber injected at pressure. High-volume production, tightest repeatability.
Group services
Twelve services that only make sense across four divisions.
TCI Group doesn't replace the divisions — it routes buyers to the right one and adds the coordination on top.
One phone call, one engineer, however many divisions it touches.
TCI Group is four brands with one workshop behind them. If a job spans Mouldings and Products, or Culinary and…
One quote. Itemised by division. Nothing rolled up to hide the arithmetic.
When a job touches more than one TCI brand, we quote it once, as one document, with each division's line clearly…
An engineering conversation before you commit to a route.
You have a part in mind. You're not sure whether it wants silicone or polyurethane, cast or compression, prototype or…
We run four materials. We're not paid to push one over another.
Platinum-cure silicone, tin-cure silicone, polyurethane, and various rubbers pass through our workshop every week. That…
One quality system. Four divisions. Same paperwork, same standard.
Whichever door you came in through, the quality system behind your job is the same. Same procedures, same audit trail,…
UK-designed, UK-made, coordinated from one Warwickshire workshop.
Our design and development sits in Bidford-on-Avon. So does the majority of our moulding. Some higher-volume production…
Same engineer, prototype through to production.
You started with one hand-cast mould. The part is signed off. You're ready for a hundred a week. The engineer who built…
Design for manufacture, across five moulding routes.
A part designed for one process doesn't necessarily suit another. Our DFM review covers all five moulding routes we run…
Projects that need more than one material, coordinated as one job.
Some parts want silicone in one place and polyurethane in another. Or a rubber gasket on a silicone body. Or a hard…
For programmes that run over months, not weeks.
Some jobs are one tool and one delivery. Others are a programme: prototypes, first article, tooling, launch, ramp-up,…
From first prototype to production volume, in planned stages.
Hand-cast prototypes, bridge tooling, then production steel — with a clear trigger for each step. You spend on tooling…
Repeat parts arriving when your line needs them.
For parts you buy again and again, we plan production against your forecast, hold agreed buffer stock and deliver on…
Drill-down pages
Every major service, broken into the work it involves.
Or by audience
Sector pages for the buyer types we see most often.
For procurement teams
If you look after buying for a business that uses moulded parts across more than one category — food-contact,…
For buyers whose projects touch more than one brand
Some organisations don't fit neatly into one division. A homewares brand needs food-safe bakeware and decorative candle…
For first-time buyers
Silicone, polyurethane, cast, compression, LSR, HTV, platinum, tin — moulded parts come with a vocabulary that no-one…
For in-house engineering teams
If you have engineers on your side who already know moulding, we're the workshop that speaks their language. Send…
For start-ups scaling
Start-ups don't want to change supplier every time volume steps up. Start with a hand-cast prototype, take it through…
Sector · supply chain teams
You plan materials, not moulds. You need repeat parts delivered to forecast, a supplier who flags risk early, and one…
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
Five brands, one team
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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