ARRK has created a whole new UK Tooling Division to meet and support the need for access to a greater network of Tooling and Moulding operations.

With the growing demand from UK customers to have greater access to a wider network of Tooling and Moulding operations both at home and overseas, ARRK has created a whole new UK Tooling Division to meet and support this need. Having acquired many well established tooling and moulding companies over the past 14 months, whilst enhancing our own existing tooling operations, ARRK PDG is now able to unveil a tooling package to suit the most demanding of projects! To oversee the continued growth of ARRK UK's Tooling Division, three new appointments have been made to provide the backbone and support for its successful operation. ARRK has announced the appointments of Steve Haley, as Tooling and Moulding General Manager based at Teesside, John Westwood, as a Regional Tooling Specialist and Shannon Maurice as Programme Manager.

Bill Pe-ad and Norman Hoggett, who have been supporting ARRK's Tooling customers for some years now, will be supporting customers in the South East and the North respectively.

This new division sees the ARRK Teesside Tooling facility acting as the technical for all Tooling project co-ordination and import tooling inspection, modification and trialling.

With facilities now being used in Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, India, Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan all import tools will be validated at our Teesside facility before being released to end parties.

With many of ARRK's sites now performing to automotive and medical specifications utilising many industry standards, ARRK's new set-up makes for an ideal choice for UK customer seeking new and more competitive tooling suppliers with access to facilities globally.

With resources overseas for them to use - without the resource and expense of co-ordinating it themselves - ARRK offers the customer cost efficient solutions with significant benefits through choice, capacity, flexibility and by delivering parts on time, to budget and to supplied specification.

Steve Haley, Tooling and General Manager, aims to take Teesside's Tooling facility to the next level of operational and technical performance, making it a Technical Centre Show piece.

'Along with my new and existing tooling colleagues at Teesside, we are looking forward to the challenge of exploring new market opportunities and developing a product to market phenomenon.'