Acal BFi (“ the Company”) has consolidated its value-added services from across the UK into a new dedicated UK custom product assembly and manufacturing centre further differentiating itself from the larger broadline commodity distributors. The centre provides customers with a highly responsive and integrated mix of services to stimulate innovation and accelerate time to market.
Based in Wokingham, the centre offers best practice and standards-based assembly services to support the UK’s small and medium-sized electronics manufacturers. It provides a single centre of excellence in the UK and combines a number of the Company’s technology specialisms with customisable in-house assembly and test facilities. Customers receive a rapid response and end-to-end support for high quality UK-based design, manufacturing and assembly services. In addition to specialist design teams and in-house testing for pre-compliance to industry standards, the centre assembles and customises connectors, fibre optics, power supplies and microsystems, as well as handling other electromechanical assembly projects.
The Company’s investment in its value-added custom services activities includes the new Acal BFi website to market its design, assembly and manufacturing services (visit: acalbfi.com/uk/aboutAcal).
“The UK distribution market has fundamentally changed,” said Nick Jefferies, Group Chief Executive of Acal plc. “We are distancing ourselves from the standard product business of the broadline distributors. In the last 18 months we have invested in new engineering staff. We have to offer the market something entirely different in the future.”
This UK centre is part of Acal BFi’s European strategy that has seen similar custom services and competence centres established in France and Germany.