ARRK Europe Ltd | Rapid Prototypes | Injection Mould Tooling

ARRK is one of the world’s largest and most respected product development specialists. With over 6 decades of experience in helping to bring world-class products to life, we are the chosen product development partner for a variety of market-leading businesses.

We have a wealth of knowledge and skill supporting clients in sectors including aerospace, automotive, construction, consumer goods, defence, energy, medical and renewables. Our designers, engineers and industrial architects collaborate with you to get your products to market faster and more efficiently. From inception, design and modelling to tooling and low volume manufacture, we can ensure your products make it from initial concept to market – effectively and efficiently.

At ARRK, we possess a global reach with localised service backed by an impeccable engineering and product development pedigree. You’ll find an integrated range of best practice processes, techniques and technologies that help compress your time to market, add value, reduce risk and deliver competitive advantage.

We manufacture rapid prototypes from simple, individual components to large, multiple and complex parts. We provide high-quality solutions direct to your door, on time and on budget. We have six decades of experience within the industry together with fantastic and latest technologies, materials and processes.

Our skilled project advisers and co-ordinators include engineers and designers. They have extensive, first-hand experience of meeting clients’ exact specifications within tight deadlines. Our team is involved at every stage of the rapid prototypes production, from the inital quote to the delivery of the finished product.

We are proud to support clients from a variety of industries including the automotive, consumer products, aerospace, medical, defence and telecommunications. We value all of our clients ranging from individuals to large organisations. We pride ourselves on providing the same high standard of customer service for every project.

We employ proven prototyping technologies and processes and will take your ideas or designs and bring them to life in just days. With access to a wide range of materials, we have an efficient, fast and effective solution that’s right for you, whether it’s a prototype to test form, fit and function or as a starting point for our downstream processes.

Our product development solutions include an fantastic selection of injection mould tooling services. We are experts in the design, development, manufacture and sourcing of injection mould tooling and components for the plastics processing industry.

We have UK and European-based technical centres and sister companies around the world to enable us to provide high-quality mould tools. We have vast experience in supporting clients in the automotive, medical, consumer products and construction industries.

We specialise in delivering a variety of solutions, tailored to suit the individual needs of our clients. Whether you need large, oversized tools or small, rapid tools, we can help. We are part of one of the largest product development companies in the world, offering clients a whole host of global solutions. We take the risk out of sourcing tools overseas. You take delivery of quality, European standard moulds or mouldings. We work closely with our parent company to deliver your project on time and within you budgets.

Our UK tooling and moulding technical centre provides on-site inspection, trialling and modification services to ensure your tools run smoothly and efficiently. What's more with the addition of a second 3200T injection moulding machine, ARRK is an ideal partner that can support your low volume moulding requirements.

We provide a diverse range of design engineering services to support the initial product development and engineering programmes. We are competent in the use of plastics, sheet metal, castings, foam and composites. We are unrivaled in our extensive capacity and responsive turnaround across an extensive range of disciplines, applications and market sectors.

We have a versatile and flexible approach to our design engineering services. We are extremely adaptable, so we meet the needs of an assortment of industries including consumer goods, automotive, defence, renewable energy and medical.

Our expert craftsmanship enables us to design and manufacture models, fixtures, gauges and tooling for the automotive, aerospace, defence, marine, and medical industries. Our unrivaled craftsmanship is carried out in totally secure, climate-controlled facilities. We manufacture tools and models, up to full size domestic or commercial vehicle builds and assemblies.

We use advanced technical skills, including an assortment of disciplines including styling, feasibility, function, and development properties. We use the very latest composite materials and technologies to produce individual components and prototype parts.

Our composite tooling and component manufacture services are well known around the world. We work to strict high-quality management processes. Our long standing collaboration with OEM customers and advanced materials supply partners ensures we maintain our leading position in the composites industry.

Composites solutions provide several advantages including:

• High strength to weight ratios 
• Resistance to corrosion and fatigue
• High temperature performance
• Compliance with fire, smoke and toxicity (FST) regulations
• Supreme toughness
• Impact resistance

Our composites solutions are the perfect alternative to conventional materials and are ideal as a low volume, production solution for some clients. There is an increasing demand for increase product differentiation and our composites service allows you to meet this requirement. We provide a fantastic range of material weaves, colours, and finishes.

 

If you have any questions about ARRK, or you have a project enquiry, please contact us:

Specialism Design Engineering & Recruitment Services

Basildon Technical Centre
Endeavour Drive
Basildon, Essex
SS14 3WF, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1268 245000  E-mail: btc@arrkeurope.com

Specialism, Composites, Jigs & Fixtures

Nuneaton Technical Centre
Caldwell Road, Nuneaton,
Warwickshire,
CV11 4NG, UK

Tel: +44 (0)2476 580700  E-mail: ntc@arrkeurope.com

Specialism, Prototyping

Gloucester Technical Centre
Olympus Park, Quedgeley, Gloucester,
Gloucestershire,
GL2 4NF, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1452 727700  E-mail: projects@arrkeurope.com

Teesside Office:

Durham Tees Valley Business Centre
Primrose Hill Industrial Estate
Orde Wingate Way
Stockton-On-Tees
TS19 0GA

Tel: +44 (0)1642 769930  E-mail: projects@arrkeurope.com

 

Specialism, Tooling & Low Volume Manufacturing

Petersfield Technical Centre
Langrish, Petersfield, Hampshire
GU32 1RL, UK

Tel: +44 (0)844 346 0310     E-mail: ptc@arrkeurope.com