Family firm · Est. 1981
A Salford stockist with a machine shop on the same floor.
Founded by Russ Arrowsmith, still CEO. We hold bearings, seals, couplings and the rest — and we bore, key and cut when the shelf is wrong.
- 1981
Sole trader breakdown service
Russ Arrowsmith starts on call-outs: get the line moving, find the part, machine what you cannot buy.
- 1988
Incorporation
Arrow Engineering Components Limited, company no. 02235902. Same family, a proper books trail.
- Gear kit
Gear cutting stays in-house
MS90 / Stockport Gears kit brought in and kept running. Obsolete wheels are still a shop job, not a forwarding exercise.
- Now
Warehouse + shop, one site
72 Liverpool Street, Salford. ISO 9001:2015. 50,000+ parts available. Still a family firm, still not a national discounter.

Team
Russ Arrowsmith, founder and CEO. Counter staff who can read a bearing suffix. Turners and millers who would rather see the shaft than a guess on email. We are not listing a roster of invented names.
Food and process plants are the regulars — bakeries, bottlers, paper, pharma, pumps, quarries, oil and gas skids. If you are none of those, call anyway; we will say if we are the wrong shop.
ISO 9001:2015
Quality
Certificate placeholder: ISO 9001:2015. Not ISO 9001:2008. Scan or PDF available from the counter — we do not put a mock certificate number on the internet.
ISO 9001:2015
Certificate on file · Arrow Engineering Components Limited