Tooling and moulding facility can provide a rapid response service for customers seeking to make additional modifications and design changes to their tools.

A new service has been unveiled by ARRK Product Development Group at its Teesside Tooling and Moulding facility so that it can provide a rapid response service for customers seeking to make additional modifications and design changes to their tools. The new service is designed to provide customers with a locally based facility that can handle Tools that are imported from overseas. Specific tooling design and manufacture will continue to be apart of Teesside's activities but with the significant increase in production tooling being supplied by ARRK facilities worldwide, including Hungary, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan, the new operation will allow customers to have a modification service which is equally as responsive as our production capabilities, in meeting customers modifications.

Significant investment has also been made in Teesside to support the new operation in areas such as trialing, inspection and its handling capabilities, including additional trail presses, full CMM capabilities and enhanced handling capabilities for up to 10 tonnes.

Led by Cess Short, the Operations Director for Teesside and principal Tooling members Phil Cooper, Alan Robinson, Mark O'Reilly, Phil Walker and John Richardson, the new operation will assist in the speedy transfer of tooling and to ensure that they are up to speed quickly they will be carrying out final pre-delivery checks and in-house trialing for all UK customer tools.

This way customers can be assured that their tools will be up and running in their presses as quickly as possible.