Trunki founder Rob Law loves a challenge, or so it would seem. Undeterred after being rejected by the Dragon’s Den panel, he went on to make his funky suitcases for children a huge success.  

 

Rob took on another challenge when he started looking into re-shoring the manufacturing of Trunki suitcases back to the UK. Despite no Government assistance being available at the time, Rob worked with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to ensure efficiency and the manufacturing of Trunki was successfully moved to Devon, UK.

 

In this exclusive video Rob gives an insight into how to approach the idea of re-shoring, and how clever re-engineering of the product has allowed the company to match UK production output with Chinese output through cutting labour costs.  





 

Government support for re-shoring has since improved with the Technical Strategy Board (TSB) and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).

 

It’s great to hear a successful re-shoring story attached to such a high profile product. Which products would you like to see re-shored, and what do you think the engineering challenges would be? 



And if you would like to watch Rob's presentation at an IET Somerset and West Wiltshire Network event please take a look on IET.tv