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Flightcase specialist Dave Peacock establishes new company Boxxtoff

Boxxtoff is a new flightcase design and manufacturing company based in Manchester and part of the Tube UK community. It is an autonomous operation producing bespoke casing solutions for all types of production related kit.

Dave Peacock heads up the new enterprise, bringing around thirty-five years industry experience. After a successful career and running several businesses, Peacock took a break from the world of flightcasing and joined the team at Tube UK two years ago. However, after a short while, Tube’s Melvyn Coote sensed that he still harboured a love for creating cases.

Peacock initially offered to make a couple of cases for Tube’s Pioneer CDJ kits as a bit of a side hustle, which proved to be “simply fantastic products designed by someone who knows exactly what those using them need”, says Coote. After this, Peacock was asked to get involved in some more complex case building projects to re-case some of Tube’s large stock of audio kit.

Word soon spread on the industry grapevine and some of Peacock’s own contacts got wind that he was making cases again, bringing more business into the company. These embryonic steps all started in a lockup down the road from Tube’s warehouse and grew organically, until this official launch of Boxxtoff, which moved into its own warehouse a few miles away in January with substantially more space, better tooling, and CNC cutting to make the operation precise and efficient.

The 2500 square foot premises has a further 1500 square feet of mezzanine and is just off the M60 in Manchester. It is now set up and a fully functioning manufacturing plant. In the last year, Boxxtoff has completed orders for Blackburn-based lighting rental company Lite Alternative and Manchester-based production specialists in audio, lighting and rigging, DBN Audile, among others.

“It’s still essentially a boutique operation”, emphasises Coote, Peacock is involved in all the design and fabrication processes, and each case is hand-finished. Peacock also now has another craftsperson working alongside him, Lewis Trochymenko, who brings his own insights and attention to detail to the team. Boxxtoff can also call on the resources and skills of various Tube UK team members like audio engineers John Redfern and Adam Taylor who can assist with CAD drawing as and when needed.

The Lite Alternative job mentioned above involved casing a number of new Kinesys Apex hoists for automation systems that have recently been touring with the Arctic Monkeys and now Niall Horan. A high-end audio control system was cased for immersive mixed reality concert world tour “Kagami” which is currently out.

Peacock and Trochymenko will also be busy boxing up Tube UK’s new infrastructure to go with their D&B KSL speaker system, which arrived last month after a substantial investment by the Manchester-based audio specialist.

(Photos: Tube UK)

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