RoHS 3 compliance information has been added to the extensive documentation offered on Anglia Live. Anglia is also working closely with suppliers to ensure that its inventory will be compliant by the time the RoHS 3 directive comes in to force on July 22 2019.

A raft of key new lighting suppliers will be showcased by Anglia at LuxLive at Excel, London (Nov 14-15). The company has announced supply partnerships with LG OLED, Samsung ARTIK and EFORE and will be exhibiting a complete portfolio of the components needed to create and deliver a solid state lighting solution.

In conjunction with Renesas, Anglia Components is providing a free one day seminar and interactive workshop demonstrating cloud-based application development using Renesas Synergy.  Following similar workshops in March, Anglia has announced two new dates in October.  Attendees will develop complex cloud-based applications in a hands-on, practical workshop using the Renesas Synergy platform.

During October, Anglia, in conjunction with Renesas are providing a free one-day seminar and interactive workshop demonstrating the IoT cloud-based application development using Renesas Synergy.

A family of electronics housings has been released by Phoenix Contact. The Universal Case System UCS series offers developers an extremely versatile housing solution which has been specially designed for embedded systems. It is available at Anglia-live.com.

The DF58 series from Hirose delivers a space-saving, low profile, wire-to-board connectivity solution for miniature applications. It is available at anglia-live.com. The connector range consists of crimp sockets and headers in a single row, the connectors feature a mated height profile which is minimised to 1.0mm and connector depth of only 4.97mm to reduce the space required on the board.

Eager to push on with the next phase of its ambitious five-year growth plan, Anglia Components is actively recruiting as it continues to look to outgrow the market and achieve this growth organically. The Wisbech-based distributor is looking to grow its share of the UK electronic component distribution market to 10%, with a turnover of £100m.

Anglia Components is warning customers that now is the time to ensure they have sufficient orders/inventory to cover their chip resistor needs. With global demand massively outstripping supply, shortages and price increases are already heavily impacting the supply chain.

Anglia is partnering with some of the biggest names in medical electronics for its upcoming Healthcare Conference and Exhibition in June.  The conference will provide detailed and specific input on designing healthcare diagnostics, clinical monitoring equipment, life science and medical instrumentation as well as health and wellness device design.

Demand for key commodity components like chip capacitors is heavily outstripping supply at the moment. The market is growing, but lead-times are lengthening because demand from the high volume consumer market is soaking up the available capacity. The latest smartphones can include up to 1000 or more of these tiny devices. At the same time, there is increased demand from the automotive industry and the wider industrial market, writes Steve Rawlins...

Anglia is supporting customers designing connected devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) with a new Wireless Connectivity and Sensors guide covering the wide range of solutions available from industry leaders like Analog Devices, Gemalto, Honeywell, Renesas, Littelfuse, Murata, Omron, Panasonic, Rohm, STMicroelectronics and TDK.

A free one day seminar and interactive workshop demonstrating cloud-based application development using Renesas Synergy is being organised by Anglia Components, in conjunction with Renesas. The workshop will explain how to develop a complex cloud-based application on the Renesas Synergy platform using MQTT, TCP/IP, DHCP server, RTOS and peripheral drivers.

Anglia Components has signed an agreement to distribute and support the Mitsubishi Electric range of displays in the UK and Ireland.  The agreement strengthens Anglia’s display portfolio, and extends its 10-year partnership with Mitsubishi covering RF devices.

Anglia Components has extended its offering of competitively priced, small pack quantities including split reels, across thousands more stock items on their newly improved Anglia Live website for same day shipment. Customers looking to order low volumes for design and prototype phases can now access stock items on commodity Surface Mount parts in small quantities supplied in cut tape format. 

Anglia is partnering with some of the biggest names in IoT technology to create ‘Meet the IoT’, a conference and exhibition that provides detailed and specific input on designing IoT systems, taking place at locations in the North and South of England in June.

A new and comprehensive Thermal Management Guide has been published by Anglia. It provides full details of the broad range of solutions it offers from industry leaders including Aavid Thermalloy, Fischer Elektronik, Calinar, Bergquist, Ohmite and Panasonic.

Anglia has strengthened its offering of solutions for the HMI (Human Machine Interface) following a distribution deal with Swiss-owned EAO. Anglia will be stocking the most popular EAO switch and indicator families in its UK warehouse, and offering them through Anglia Live. Products covered include panel indicators, robust industrial switches, emergency stop buttons, panel mount switches, keylock switches, panel mount buzzers, vandal resistant sw...

Anglia has strengthened its offering of solutions for the HMI (Human Machine Interface) following its appointment as distributor by Swiss owned EAO. Anglia will be stocking the most popular EAO switch and indicator families in its UK warehouse, and offering them through Anglia Live. Products covered include panel indicators, robust industrial switches, emergency stop buttons, panel mount switches, keylock switches, panel mount buzzers, ...

New board to board, wire to board, USB and RJ connectors with built in magnetics are among the 700 new Taicom products added by Anglia, in a substantial expansion of its offering from the connector manufacturer. In addition to featuring the full portfolio on Anglia Live, the distributor is publishing a new 136-page connector selection guide giving details of both new and established parts.

A completely new and unique free sample service has been launched by Anglia. It gives customers the opportunity to try latest design-in products and supporting development kits at no cost for their new designs. Ezysample is available to all customers with an Anglia Live account, and orders are despatched the same day with no delivery or handling charges.