Watch straps and bands
A strap is worn every day, against skin, through sweat and showers. It has to look good in the box and still look good a year later.
Open this variantOEM route · wearable and consumer parts
Wearable and consumer silicone.
Silicone parts for products people wear, hold, or wipe every day — ear tips, straps, grips, sleeves, applicators. Made to a colour and feel you sign off on physical samples, then held consistent across every subsequent batch.
What consumer silicone has to do
Feel right the first time, and every time after.
Consumer silicone parts get judged by feel and by colour, not by specification. Your customer holds the product for the first time and either likes it or doesn't. If they like it, they judge every future product against that first impression.
That means two things for us. First, we prototype the feel with real moulded samples, not with a shore hardness datasheet number. A soft silicone in one grade doesn't feel like the same shore in another grade — we press them and let you choose by touch.
Second, we hold colour and feel consistent across every batch. Colour is matched against a physical chip you sign off, then the pigment recipe is recorded and reused. Grade and cure conditions are fixed, so batch three years from now feels exactly like batch one.
Everything from ear tips for audio brands to grip sleeves for sports and lifestyle products, silicone applicator tips for wellness brands, and soft straps for wearables sits within this capability. If it's silicone and your customer touches it, we've probably moulded something like it before.
Drill down
3 ways we run wearable and consumer parts.
Each variant has its own page with the specifics: where it fits, how we run it and what to send us.
Ear tips and audio parts
Ear tips seal the ear canal, shape the sound and decide whether headphones are comfortable. They're small parts that customers notice.
Open this variantGrips and handles
A good grip makes a product feel better made. Silicone gives warmth, friction and comfort, and it cleans easily.
Open this variantHow feel gets specified
Three ways to lock down the feel of a part.
Durometer selected on samples
Three or more grades pressed as real moulded parts. Someone in your team wears or holds them for an afternoon. Winner is fixed; loser variants get archived.
Surface finish specified in the tool
Matte, satin or gloss finish is a tool-surface decision. We spec it once, laser-etch or polish the tool to match, and the finish stays consistent for the life of the tool.
Colour matched against a physical chip
You sign off a physical silicone chip, not a Pantone number. The pigment recipe is recorded and reused for every subsequent batch.
How a consumer part comes together
From concept to shipped batch.
Consumer work is iterative. We assume you'll want a few sample rounds before the tool is cut, and we build that into the quote rather than charging for it as a change.
Concept sample from your reference
You send us a competitor part, a 3D print, or a sketch. We produce a soft-tool sample in what we think is the right grade so your team can hold it.
Feel and colour rounds
Multiple grades pressed, colours matched against physical chips. Iteration happens on real parts, not on drawings.
Production tool cut
Once feel, colour and geometry are frozen, we cut the production tool. Finish and colour are locked into the tool spec and the material record at this point.
First production run and sign-off
First batch produced. You sign off a physical golden sample which becomes the reference for every subsequent batch.
Rolling programme
Ongoing batches held against the golden sample. Colour, feel and dimensions checked at first-off on every run.
To quote it
What we need on consumer enquiries.
A reference part or a 3D print
A physical reference beats any drawing for consumer parts. Send us the shape you're aiming at, even if it's not in the right material.
Brand colour and finish direction
A colour chip, a swatch, or a competitor product. We'll match against physical, not against a Pantone number in isolation.
Volume expectations
How many per launch, how many per year. That drives tool cavity count and route choice more than any other factor.
Regulatory posture
Skin contact — yes or no. Any specific standard called out. We'll use appropriately documented grades and record batches accordingly.
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Where this connects.
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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.
- Part of TCI GroupFive specialist brands, one engineering team. Visit TCI Group.
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