COMPANY PROFILE
ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS
Now: From ground-breaking ingress
protection systems to a brand new high density connector system for cryogenic quantum computing applications
BUILDING AN RF
INTERCONNECT BRAND
Then: Intelliconnect is
proud of its achievements over the last 20 years
T
o sustain any entity for 50 years is a remarkable achievement, but in publishing it is downright miraculous! So well done and
congratulations to all at Design Solutions, past and present, and here’s wishing you many more. While Intelliconnect cannot boast 50 years, we
are very proud of what we have achieved in the near 20 year history of our company. From very humble beginnings in the corner of a warehouse in Chelmsford, manufacturing low voltage lighting as well as RF connectors, we have grown to an expected sales level of around £7m in 2021. Why low voltage lighting I hear you ask!
Well, when the idea of forming Intelliconnect was percolating, we were approached by Labcraft, a leading brand of LV lighting, who offered to fund 50% of the venture in exchange for us taking on the assembly of their lighting. Thus, Intelliconnect was born. In the early days we were primarily sustained
by business from Microtek and Rhophase, a cable assembly house in Corby, Northants. We will be forever grateful to people like Peter Edwards and Andrew Sanders from Microtek, and Bryon Putt and Nick Lewis at Rhophase, who really went out on a limb to support our fledgeling company. Both companies, in different ways, maintain an important role in the development of Intelliconnect.
mOvING ON As time moved on and we developed our customer base, Labcraft changed its business model and took manufacturing in-house. This led, in 2007, to a restructuring and
Roy Phillips, managing director of Intelliconnect Europe, examines the company’s achievements over the last 20 years
Intelliconnect was ‘set-free’. Again, we would not have achieved what we have without the support, help and generosity of Labcraft. Manufacturing continued for some time based
in a (well appointed) garage belonging to then manufacturing director, Phill Skingsley, until in 2012 when Rhophase, which had been acquired by a large multinational cable/connector
“Our design teams in the UK and US are constantly creating,
adapting and refining design projects for our customers”
business, moved their manufacturing to Blackburn and consequently almost all of the Corby staff were made redundant. This gave Intelliconnect the opportunity to employ some key staff and start to seriously manufacture cable assemblies. In 2013 we opened our first factory in Corby with two employees. We are now on our third factory and employ 15 people on that site as well as eight in our sales and R&D office
60 DESIGN SOLUTIONS JULY/AUGUST 2021
in Chelmsford. Including our US operation we now proudly employ a total of 31 people.
CONNECTORs, ADApTORs AND mORE...
Design solutions, innovation and agile design/manufacturing have always been touchstones in the DNA of Intelliconnect. Since the inception of the business in 2003,
we have created an extensive portfolio of custom connectors, adaptors and other products for a wide variety of client briefs. We are, essentially, engineers and we love engaging with engineers to help create the best possible solutions to their electrical, physical or environmental challenges. From ground-breaking ingress protection
systems capable of working at 300psi to 3000 mating cycles, ultra-durable sub-miniature connector suite for cochlear implants, and award winning solderless 2.92mm connectors, to our brand new high density connector system for cryogenic quantum computing applications, our design teams in the UK and US are constantly creating, adapting and refining design projects for our customers. The design offering is unique in the RF
connector/component space. Designs in days, prototypes in weeks, no NRE charges and no charge pre-production samples with production orders.
Intelliconnect Europe
https://intelliconnect.co.uk
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