Turntide Technologies is helping to redefine the future of transport – and it’s doing it from right here in the North East. A global leader in electrification solutions, Turntide develops cutting-edge battery systems, electric motors, power electronics, and thermal technologies for applications across road, rail, off-highway, marine, and industrial sectors.
From its advanced manufacturing facility in Gateshead, the company is delivering clean, smart power solutions that support the transition to net zero while creating high-value jobs in the region. One standout example? A recent multi-million-pound contract to supply the technology behind the UK’s first battery-powered trains, in partnership with Hitachi.
As Turntide continues to scale its operations and expand its influence, the NEAA caught up with Steve Hornyak, CEO, to learn more about the company’s mission, innovations, and what’s next for this trailblazer in transport electrification.
For readers new to Turntide Technologies – can you briefly describe what the company does?
Turntide manufactures axial flux motors, power electronics, batteries, and thermal control technology for everything that moves. This includes commercial vehicles, off-highway equipment and vehicles, premium automobiles, marine craft, and many other verticals.
Turntide Technologies is making a major impact globally – but it’s doing a lot of that from right here in Gateshead. Why is the North East such an important location for your operations?
The North East is where Turntide began and is the hub of our engineering and manufacturing activities. Our people, culture, and future lie in our engineering best-in-class facility in the North East.
Can you tell us more about the capabilities at your Gateshead facility and how it supports Turntide’s global mission?
We recently integrated our Sunderland site, focused on energy storage (batteries/battery management systems), and our Cramlington site, specializing in thermals (fans, motors, and pumps), into its main office and engineering campus at Team Valley, Gateshead.
This move streamlined our operations, enhanced collaboration across teams, and further improved product quality. This campus will fully support Turntide’s aggressive high growth plans of tripling its revenue over the next three years. This facility now produces most of our electrification components.
How does Turntide approach innovation across its product portfolio? Are there specific challenges in electrifying transport across so many sectors – road, rail, marine, off-highway?
The challenges are very similar across all the verticals we serve. Rail obviously requires more power and larger batteries, so we have an engineering team that works with that vertical.
For other verticals like off-highway, commercial vehicle, or marine, the requirements are power (batteries or hybrid systems), blenders/movement (axial flux motors), and brains (inverters/motor controllers). We can provide those systems to anything that moves in these verticals.
