About
A full range of manufacturing specialisms delivered by an expert team that cares
11S – our production and manufacturing capabilities
At True North we can accommodate nearly all types of product manufacture either within our in-house facilities or through our other long-established production and sourcing relationships. We have the following core 11 specialisms:
- Steel fabrication
- Fibre laser and plasma cutting
- Computer Numerical Control (CNC) forming and tube bending
- CNC machining
- Robot and manual welding
- Powder coating
- High pressure aluminium die casting
- Gravity zinc die casting
- Injection moulding
- Component sourcing and validation
- Assembly – including electronics and in-line testing
8Es – what we stand for
These are the values and skills you can expect from everyone
at True North when you work with us.
- Engineering
- Expertise
- Experience
- Efficient
- Economic
- Ethical
- Enthusiastic
- Excellence
Precision and process excellence
These run through every aspect of what we do. As product and production engineers and Six Sigma experts we understand the importance and impact of accuracy to a successful end outcome.
Our focus on accuracy is reinforced by our process excellence mindset which we apply to our management of each part of the production supply chain. As a result we achieve highly efficient outcomes: reduced variability; reduced waste; shortened timescales; higher quality and consistency; and controlled costs.
Our team
We have fully aligned leadership and quality management teams who all work closely together across the True North network. We know what our clients demand of us and we both support and hold each other accountable for delivery of our clients’ needs on time, on quality and on cost.
Our success formula
Our clients trust us to ensure their products are manufactured on time, on budget and to the specified quality. Quality, Cost and Delivery performance is essential.
By combining the expertise of our team (T), our skills and values (8Es), our manufacturing capabilities (11S) across our network (N), linked and driven by the precision and process excellence capabilities (P+PE) we bring as experienced product and production engineers, we consistently exceed our clients’ expectations.
We are very proud of our track record of success and our relationship with our clients. And we work extremely hard to sustain them.
They are easy to work with, and their manufacturing expertise gave us real confidence from day one. The upfront work they put in, and overcoming challenges together, has really paid off in the long term.
Ray Helliwell, Lead Designer