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News Release from: Farnell | Subject: SMC pneumatic components
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2001
SMC pneumatics join major distributor's
lineup
The largest pneumatics manufacturer in the world, SMC, has signed a distribution agreement with Farnell, the distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial components
The largest pneumatics manufacturer in the world, SMC, has signed a distribution agreement with Farnell, the leading business-to-business distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial components SMC Pneumatics (UK) Limited will be distributing initially 1,250 product lines through Farnell
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a result, Farnell signed with SMC.
With a large presence in North America, the Far East and Europe, SMC has a portfolio of over 9,000 products with in excess of 600,000 variations.
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The leader in its market, SMC is a subsidiary of the SMC Corporation of Japan that was established in 1959 with UK headquarters in Milton Keynes.
Today, the SMC Corporation nets more than $2 billion in annual sales with over 10,500 employees in more than 40 worldwide locations.
SMC serves all industries, from packaging companies through to automotive, to the leisure industry.
Its customers range from multi-national blue chip to small niche market original equipment manufacturers (OEM's).
Recent new product lines including high purity liquid valves and fittings, high vacuum valves, electric actuators have been established to meet the specific needs of target industries.
Initially, the agreement will see Farnell selling SMC products in the UK with overseas roll out to be reviewed at a later date.
Commenting on the agreement, Steve Bangs, Managing Director at SMC, says: "Working with Farnell as a distributor, I am confident that we will not only meet our customers' individual requirements, but exceed them.
We believe that catalogues will become an increasingly important sales channel for our products in the coming years and the agreement with Farnell is active recognition of that.
"Last year, SMC Corporation awarded SMC UK the accolade of becoming the site for its new European Technical Centre - with resource investment of approximately ?4million planned over the next two to three years.
This will result in the development of many new products specifically for the European market and we will be looking to expand the range of SMC products offered by Farnell as our partnership develops." Angus Fraser, CEO at Farnell, adds: "I have every confidence that our partnership with SMC will deliver great benefits to all parties involved.
In particular, Farnell's customers will now have access to a comprehensive range of the highest quality pneumatics components.
Supported by the Farnell promise on service and delivery - free same day despatch by either first class post or courier - this constitutes a proposition that is hard to beat.".
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