For over four decades, Riley Shutt has been the name trusted by the metal processing industries and we are now one of the largest independent cutting tool specialists in England. The company was founded by the late George Shutt in 1968. George started his career as an aerospace engineer before going on the road as a sales manager. In 1968 he went into business with his son Geoff and they started the company with a simple philosophy that still endures to this day: To offer the very best tooling and technical solutions available on the market, totally focused around the needs of the customer. In recent years, we have grown our product range to an extensive 150,000 stock lines, all ready for immediate despatch, our capability has grown with the increasing demand from customers for a responsive service that provides high quality products, best value and dedicated technical assistance.

Riley Shutt have premium distributor status with all the major tooling manufacturers and with close cooperation with them the team at Riley Shutt holds an unrivalled knowledge on their product ranges.. The technical support we offer includes a full consultancy service enabling the best solutions with the minimum of customer effort. This service has proved to be effective for many customers who can rely on the right advice before making financial decisions.

Our nationwide coverage enables the rapid supply of tools when and where they are needed, this reliability in your supply chain means greater production efficiency, reduced costs and greatly reduced downtime due to tool outages.

Other growing areas of the business have been tool vending, and integrated supply. This simply enables customer access to the tools they need most often from a vending system on their own premises. The advantages of these facilities are 24hrs product access, tool traceability and greatly reduced administration costs in purchasing and accounting.