Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 32

MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING HELIX TOOL COMPANY

PRECISION & VALUE
Helix clients benefit from an intimate, tailored approach
that promotes productivity and cost savings

Helix is more than a supplier. It is a
holistic service partner whose
time-served approach is underpinned by an ability to provide
value to its customers’ commercial endeavours. Approaching its
22nd year in business the £5.5m turnover
company has built its reputation on longterm relationships focused on providing the
best possible solutions to customer needs.
Indeed, each of its clients benefit from an intimate, tailored approach that promotes productivity and cost savings.
The business, headquartered in Leeds and
operating
predominantly
throughout
Yorkshire, achieves this by understanding its
customers’ commercial goals. Through its
own extensive expertise, each client has its
own dedicated applications engineer who will

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work closely to identify where Helix can provide the optimum benefit for the process or
processes in question.
This could mean utilising new materials,
increasing capacity or tool life, identifying production bottlenecks or benchmarking against a
variety of criteria. The result is a complete solution driven by Helix’s ability to draw upon a
wide range of branded products from original
equipment manufacturers. It’s where its independence really distinguishes it from competitors and a big reason behind managing director
Charles Robinson’s ambition to double
turnover within five years.
“The service has understandably developed
significantly over the years,” he says. “Our aim in
the early days was to be a technical enginee