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Presswork & Tooling Services

With over 55 years of expertise, H V Wooding delivers precision presswork and metal stamping solutions to leading names in electrical switchgear, electronics, power generation, medical, marine and automotive industries. Customers often engage us early in their projects, enabling us to optimise tooling design, quality planning and production efficiency through techniques such as PPAP, FMEA and value-chain management.

Our skilled engineering team, combined with extensive in-house resources, allows us to support short lead times, high-volume production and full project management when required — ensuring cost-effective, consistent results from prototype to production.

Our 13,000 sq ft press shops feature 35 modern machines, including Bruderer, Seyi and Ching Fong presses ranging from 5 to 200 tonnes. By combining advanced capacity planning, in-house tool design, and value engineering, we deliver efficient and flexible production solutions tailored to customer requirements.

We also operate a fully equipped electroplating facility, providing silver, tin and zinc finishes, and support global supply programmes through Kanban, Eban and VMI systems. All processes operate to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 standards, with full FMEA and SPC control for repeatable quality.

Toolmaking Expertise

H V Wooding’s in-house toolroom designs and manufactures precision tooling using advanced SolidWorks 3D CAD systems. Our experienced toolmakers produce progressive and single-operation tools to the highest standards, ensuring long tool life and reliable performance. Tool production is carried out on site or via our trusted UK and international partners, giving customers flexibility, quality assurance and cost efficiency.

Contact & Plant list

To discuss your presswork or tooling requirements, contact us at +44 (0)1303 264471 or email sales@hvwooding.co.uk.

You can view our latest Plant List for details of available machinery and capacity.

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Case studies

Strategic outsourcing partner

A leading international manufacturer of electrical accessories were producing all components in house. In order to focus on core activities and increase profitability, they needed a strategic outsourcing partner that they could trust. After a detailed evaluation, they decided to outsource all presswork components to HV Wooding.

High Volume of Metal Stampings and Busbars

A leading Global manufacturer of Electrical Automation and Control Solutions have a high volume of Metal Stampings and Busbars used within their product groups. These include regular repeat items and also spot ordered parts that are delivered to multiple locations.

Looking to reduce the cost of manufacture

UK Atomic Energy Authority is a UK government research organisation responsible for the development of nuclear fusion power. Requirement to manufacture Busbars for MAST upgrade.

Science & Research - CERN

A twin-aperture, 10 m long, prototype magnet was designed by CERN to gain experience in the construction of full scale twin-aperture Dipole Magnets. HV Wooding were given the task to produce the Twin-aperture Dipole magnet Laminations. Click to read a Case study demonstrating our ongoing work with CERN on the Large Hadron Collider - and the positive impact from our input.

Data Centre Busbars

A Global Social Media Platform were looking to enhance the performance, reliability and efficiency of their Data Centre Operation. This project involved HV Wooding in the design optimisation and manufacture of Busbars.

Next generation of Tidal Turbines

A Global manufacture in the “Renewables Sector” are developing the next generation of Tidal Turbines. In order to optimise engineering performance they needed a partner to help facilitate both the design and manufacturing solution of “Laminate Sections” for the Permanent Magnet Generator.

Next Generation of Offshore Wind Turbines

A worldwide manufacturer of Wind Turbines, developing the Generator Busbars for the next generation of offshore 7MW machines.

“Hybrid Drivetrain” for Motorsport and Transportation applications

A Global manufacturer of “Hybrid Drivetrain” for Motorsport and Transportation applications. A key market for flywheel energy storage technology is the public transport sector. This technology can save fuel and reduce green house gas emissions by up to 30% in a city bus for example.

Ventilator Challenge UK

British engineering firms were called on to switch to making medical ventilators as concern grew about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.  This follows an appeal by Boris Johnson, who held an emergency conference appealing for an urgent effort to address the national shortage.

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H V Wooding Exhibitions 2025 / 2026

See where H V Wooding will be exhibiting in 2025–2026. Meet our team at leading UK and European engineering, automotive and energy technology shows.

HV Wooding Unveils Comprehensive Brochure

We are excited to reveal our new brochure highlighting core capabilities in wire erosion, laser cutting, presswork & tooling, powder coating, and electroplating. The brochure offers an in-depth look into the intricate processes involved in crafting busbars, core packs, and precision components.

Investing in Quality

To assist the constantly evolving challenges that face our highly experienced quality team at H V Wooding, we have recently invested in the super accurate Trimos height gauge and the Vision inspection system ‘InspecVision Planer’ for fast and accurate measurement of multiple parts.

High speed Bruderer press investment delivers major reshoring contract

Investment in a refurbished precision high-speed press is helping H V Wooding deliver a significant aerospace contract that has been re-shored from Spain. We have invested over £120,000 into new tooling and the installation of a Bruderer BSTA 25H to produce more than 28 million precision parts every year.

JOSCAR Accreditation

The JOSCAR Registration Mark is valued by some of the largest purchasers in the defence community and indicates that our organisation has gone through the process required to demonstrate its commitment and credentials to the industry.

Electric Vehicle boost for HVW

Having been given a glimpse of a potential future should we make the switch to Electric Vehicles - with less air pollution and improved air quality being documented during the COVID-19 lockdown - more buyers are realising the benefits of moving away from petrol and diesel cars.
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