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Building an RF Interconnect Brand
Roy Phillips, Managing Director of Intelliconnect Europe explains more about the company’s background and why good industry partnerships have made it what it is today
Intelliconnect RF connectors
of the 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!
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Well, when the idea of forming Intelliconnect was percolating, we were approached by Labcraft Ltd., 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 dayswewere primarily sustained
by business fromMicrotek Ltd and Rhophase, a cable assembly house in Corby, Northants. Wewill be forever grateful to people like Peter Edwards and AndrewSanders fromMicrotek and Bryon Putt and Nick Lewis at Rhophase who reallywent out on a limb to support our fledgling company. Both companies, in differentways,maintain an important role in the development of Intelliconnect. As time moved on and we developed our customer base, Labcraft took the decision to change their business model and take manufacturing in-house. This led, in 2007 to a restructuring and Intelliconnect was ‘set- free’. Again, we would not have achieved what we have without the support, help and generosity of Labcraft.
ntelliconnect are very proud of what we have achieved in the near 20-year history
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 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.
Chelmsford. Including our US operation, we now proudly employ a total of 31 people. Key components Design solutions, Innovation and agile design/manufacturing have always been touchstones in the DNA of Intelliconnect. Since the inception of the business in 2003,
Roy Phillips, MD of Intelliconnect ectors In 2013 we opened our first factory in Corby
with 2 employees. We are now on our third factory and employ 15 people on that site as well as 8 in our Sales and R&D office in
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 cycle ultra-durable sub- miniature connector suite for cochlear implants to 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.
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