Sealing component supply
Gaskets, sealing lips, weather seals against your OEM-provided drawing. Delivered to your tier-1's schedule.
For tier-2 suppliers into automotive OEMs
For automotive tier-2.
You supply into a tier-1 that supplies into a car manufacturer. You need silicone or rubber components against a drawing that came down from the OEM, with the paperwork discipline that programme demands. That's the shape of what we take on.
What automotive tier-2 needs
Discipline, on time, with the paperwork.
Automotive supply chains run on scheduled deliveries and detailed paperwork. Miss a delivery slot and you disrupt a build sequence upstream; miss a paperwork field and your part gets rejected at incoming even if it's dimensionally perfect.
We won't claim OEM-facing automotive certifications on this page — those belong to tier-1s and the OEMs themselves. What we run is a disciplined moulding operation with material traceability, documented process control, and a paperwork format we agree with you at the start of the programme rather than negotiating batch by batch.
For sealing components, vibration damping, cable protection and general rubber parts feeding into automotive assembly, that discipline is what determines whether a supplier survives the relationship or gets deselected after the first year.
For tier-2s bringing a new part into a programme, we can also help with the drawing-side conversation — flagging features that will add cost at volume, tolerances that don't need to be as tight as the drawing suggests, and material selection that meets the OEM spec without over-specifying.
What automotive tier-2 needs from us
Three predictable disciplines.
On-time, every time
Scheduled deliveries against your build schedule. Any slippage flagged early, not at delivery date.
Paperwork exactly as agreed
Batch record format signed off at programme start. No reformatting; no missing fields at incoming.
Material spec held stable
Grade, colour, cure conditions locked. Any upstream supplier change communicated before it hits a batch.
What we take on for automotive tier-2
Four common engagements.
Vibration damping
Isolators, mounts, moulded rubber pads for vibration and NVH control. Compound selected for the loading condition, not for a datasheet default.
Cable and harness protection
Grommets, boots, cable exits, moulded strain relief. Delivered with the harness or as separate components for your assembly.
Development for new programme entries
You're trying to get onto a new programme. We work up the manufacturable version of the OEM drawing and produce validation samples.
How we'd deliver
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Where else we work.
Designed and developed in the UK. UK moulding capability, with some higher-volume production placed with trusted partners where that's the right commercial answer.
Get in touch
Tell us the part, the volume, and the timeline.
Rough annual volume, target unit price, and any deadlines. That's enough to work out whether compression, LSR injection or something else is the right tool.
Real people, a real workshop
You deal with the people who make it.
No call centre and no middlemen. When you contact TCI Products, 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.
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