Category Archives: News

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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merry christmas

Please note, our offices will be closed from 12:00 24th December 2013 and will reopen on 2nd January 2014.  Merry Christmas from the Phoenix Contact UK team.

See you for more blogging in the New Year!

Hidden gems of our website…

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Written by Rachel Boyd, E-Marketing Specialist

New WebsiteOur new website has now been live for a month.  If you haven’t yet seen it, take a look here.

With our busy work lives, it is easy to miss some of the great benefits and fantastic information hiding on our website.  Here are a few things that I think are really helpful that you perhaps might have missed or not yet discovered… Continue reading

Workshops and websites!

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Written by Rachel Boyd, E-Marketing Specialist

2013 has been a very busy year in the Marketing Department.  We have had two InfoLiner tours, Exhibitions, Safety Seminars, new websites and much more in the background!

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Phoenix Contact in Northern Ireland

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Written by Andy Mills, Key Account Manager

Phoenix Contact do not have an office in Northern Ireland, however we do have something even better – A J Hurst.

AJ Hurst are an industrial distributor who specialise in selling Phoenix Contact products.  They have been a partner of ours for pretty much the entire time we have been in the UK, which is over 25

AJ Hurst logo

years.

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Our popular safety workshop has a new date in Wales!

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Written by Gary Trewhitt, Industry Manager- Automotive

Date: 8th October 2013
Venue: Rossett Hall Hotel, Wrexham
Start: 8:45 am for coffee and breakfast rolls
Finish: 4.15pm

Electrical and Functional Safety Explained

We have teamed up with TÜV SÜD (Laidler Associates) and Mechan Controls to bring you a FREE one day workshop on Electrical and Functional Safety.

This one day course is to introduce and give delegates an overview of the EN 60204-1 standard as well as

  • Safety Concept ISO 13849
  • Safety Concept IEC 62061
  • Incorporating EN ISO 14119 in order to understand the requirements and applications of electrical, electronic and programmable systems to ensure the electrical safety of machinery in industrial installations. It will give possible solutions to existing on site problems with conformity to these standards. Through EN ISO 14119 it will identify non-compliances to the standard showing actual machine examples and common misconceptions/assumptions of safety.

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I need technical help!

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Written by Rachel Mawbey, E-marketing Specialist

Want to test one of our products but can’t afford the down-time on-site? 

In today’s tough financial climate, it is particularly important to ensure that any new components that you change or add to your systems are suitable and will do what you want and expect them to do.  However, this financial climate then also often contributes to the inability to stop tight production schedules to be able to complete the required tests.

Phoenix Contact’s solution is our brand new Test & Development room:

Test & Development Room

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Exhibitions & InfoLINERS!

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Written by Rachel Mawbey, E-marketing Specialist

I hope you are enjoying our blog posts so far, and are becoming little more familiar with the people and industry knowledge behind the Phoenix Contact team in the UK. There has been a wide variety of different subjects discussed in the last few weeks, and many more to come, I am sure!

Is there a topic or application example that you would like to know more about?  Why not contact us or leave a comment below, and you may see your suggestion posted soon.

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