About Us

ARRK's origins date back to 1948 in Osaka, Japan. Over time the business has grown through a process of acquisitions and mergers resulting in an organisation that today has companies strategically located around the world. The ARRK Corporation in Osaka remains the parent company to all other ARRK companies, with each site designed to offer their own area of expertise.

A little closer to home...

Over the past 12 years ARRK has acquired a number of important businesses throughout Europe, particularly here in the UK. Today, ARRK is in the process of bringing all its UK companies together as one entity to provide clients with a truly integrated service. The new business, which all four businesses will merge into over time, will be called ARRK Europe Ltd.

In fact the integration process has already begun. ARRK Research & Development Ltd, a design, engineering and resourcing business, based in Basildon, have amalgamated with NPL Technolgies Ltd, a tooling, jigs, fixtures and composites business based in Nuneaton. It is ARRK's intention to integrate its rapid prototyping business, ARRK PDG, in Gloucester, and ARRK Tooling Development, in Petersfield, into ARRK Europe at a later date.

Our UK Technical Centres of Excellence

• Gloucester Technical Centre - This facility specialises in the provision of Rapid Prototyping & Block Modelling solutions. This facility is one of the most innovative RP centres in Europe.
• Nuneaton Technical Centre - Offers machining, composites and tooling for vehicle body, aerospace and motorsport.
• Petersfield Technical Centre - This centre specialises in providing tooling and moulding services and are specialists in low volume injection solutions.
• Basildon Technical Centre - Design and Engineering services are the key specialisms that can be found at this centre, as well as a resource servicing.

How does this help you?

With all four of our businesses coming together as one we aim to make your life easier. You will have only one supplier to deal with, capable of looking after all your product development and low volume manufacturing needs. Our team of advisers will also be your single point of contact to access ARRK's Global resources and manufacturing capabilities. What's more, you don't have to travel far to access it and you don't have to speak a multitude of languages to operate globally. We do it all for you!

Sit back and let us take the pressure off. Contact us today for an easier product development programme.

ARRK Group

ARRK utilises a global network of sales and production locations working hand in hand to offer product developent services to ARRK's customers. The aim of the ARRK Corporation is to be a creative, people-based organisation, providing the highest quality and value-added services. Each of the ARRK Group companies can be accessed via a single point of contact at ARRK Europe, allowing us to manage all aspects of your project development process - a true product development partner.

To find out more about some of our sister ARRK companies please click on any of the company names to open up our information sheet.

Click HERE to view our Global Network of companies.