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RS Components and the SMC Corporation extend world-wide partnership to offer 4,600 pneumatic products to the Australian and New Zealand automation industry

New Zealand, 8 August 2012 :

RS Components, the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has extended its world-wide partnership with the SMC Corporation, world leading specialist in pneumatics and automation, into Australia and New Zealand.


RS Components will now offer 4,600 SMC products across the region and over 2,200 of these products are stocked locally in Australia for fast next-day delivery. The range comprises a broad selection of pneumatic equipment including actuators, fittings, filters, regulators, lubricators, tubing, control valves, blow guns, silencers, pressure gauges and flow control equipment.


Through the RS Components eCommerce platform, customers have instant access to SMC products with the ability to view product models in 3D, and to place orders 24 hours-a-day. As a multi-channel supplier, RS Components also offers fax and phone ordering services.


RS Components and SMC will continue to extend their trading partnership over the next few years, incrementally adding SMC pneumatics product to the ANZ range.  Simon Pullinger, RS Components’ Head of Product Management - Maintenance in Australia, said “extending our partnership in ANZ benefits both companies, as we get to broaden our offer to Australian mining and related industries, and SMC extends their reach to customers in the region through our various supply channels.”


Commenting on the newly formed relationship Peter Newfield, National Marketing Manager of SMC Pneumatics Australia, said “We are very pleased to be working with RS Components in Australia and New Zealand. Combining SMC’s market leading products and technical excellence with RS Components’ superb online customer experience and world class delivery performance means that accessing our range of quality components has never been easier.”


RS Components and the SMC Corporation’s global partnership now extends throughout the UK, Europe, the USA, Asia and Oceania.

About RS Components

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 550,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping more than 46,000 parcels on the same day the orders are received. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronics, automation and control, test and measurement, electrical and mechanical components.

Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2012 had revenues of £1.27bn.

For more information, please visit the website at www.rs-components.com.

Editorial Contact

RS Components
Tan Soo Chun
Public Relations Manager - Asia Pacific
Tel: +65 6391 5745 
Email: soochun.tan@rs-components.com

 

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Relevant Links:

Electrocomponents plc
www.electrocomponents.com

RS Components
www.rs-components.com