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Innovative products that just might save the day!

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Written by Fraser Cowie, Product Marketing Manager- Interface

Phoenix Contact design engineers are some of the best in the world and they like to experiment with wild and wacky ideas from time to time. Some of these ideas, after a little bit of tinkering, turn into products and may be just the product you need to help you out!

Take a look at the following offers and you will be pleasantly surprised.

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Hidden gems – customised tools

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Written by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation

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I was looking through my product range looking for a ‘hidden gem’ to write about and found myself looking down an obvious route. I look after Marking Systems, cabinet add-on products (such as din rail, trunking and accessories) and then there is what I’ve always said to be the ‘coolest’ part of my job. I look after the tool range for Phoenix Contact UK Ltd. When I visit customers or exhibit at trade shows, nothing seems to pull in more interest with engineers than tools. So I thought I’d blog about a particular service we offer from our toolfox range.

Some things in life are inevitable. Like England slipping up against Iceland in the last 16 of the Euros or the queue you join at the M6 Toll moving the slowest… tools will go missing. Where they go is unknown. Perhaps to a parallel tool universe where I’m sure I’d find 7 of my Stanley knives that I’ve lost over the years. Although, lets face it, they’re most likely to be stolen by our colleagues.

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