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About Rhopoint Components

We are a leading supplier of precision electronic components, sensors, connectors and modular systems. Offering high-quality products from globally recognised manufacturers along with providing expert support and tailored solutions for our customers.

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Rhopoint Components specialises in the distribution of precision electronic components, sensors, connectors and modular systems.

We are an authorised partner for over 25 industry-leading manufacturers from around the world offering an extensive range of stocked lines and fully customised solutions to meet your requirements.

Backed by an efficient sales and distribution operation, covering our entire product range, from our main office in Sussex, our friendly and professional team offer a high level of technical and logistical knowledge to support you throughout your customer journey.

Our office and field-based engineers located around the UK and in Europe will be pleased to offer advice and provide you with the best possible solutions for your design. Our team comprises of several qualified engineers and experienced customer service representatives.

We are happy to discuss your requirements by phone, email or in person. However you decide to contact us, we look forward to assisting you with any queries you may have.

General Resistance resistors shown working in the Rhopoint M210 Milliohm Meter

Rhopoint Ltd was founded in 1975 with the aim to support engineers specialising in the design of electronics and product development by offering a selection of precision resistors to the UK market.

The Rhopoint name originates from two ideas. Firstly, the Greek letter ρ (pronounced rho). This is the symbol that represent electrical resistivity; the fundamental property of a material that quantifies how strongly it resists or conducts electrical current.

Secondly the word “point”, in the context of measurement, is defined as a definite measurable position in a scale, thereby signifying precision.

Hence the company was named Rhopoint to highlight our competence in the ever-evolving world of precision resistors. Incidentally, the first product we sold in 1975 was a high-precision wire-wound resistor from General Resistance. These products still represent part of our portfolio today, over 45 years later!

 

In 1997, the Rhopoint Ltd name was changed to Rhopoint Components Ltd. In the years to come, Rhopoint Components Ltd branched out, founding a sister company of Rhopoint Nordic ApS in 2006 to better support our Scandinavian customers. With orders still fulfilled and managed by Rhopoint Components Ltd. here in the UK, Rhopoint Nordic ApS, offers local representation and design in support for customers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. 

Later, in 2021 Rhopoint Komponenten GmbH was launched to enhance the Rhopoint Components brand within the German market place. From their warehouse in Gaukönigshofen, Germany, just a few kilometres south of Wurzburg in Bavaria, they offer the majority of the Rhopoint Components Ltd product portfolio. Since it’s founding and working closely with us here in the UK, Rhopoint Komponenten GmbH has grown and is now responsible for most European customers excluding our Scandinavian customers.

In 2024, Rhopoint Components unified its European subsidiaries, Rhopoint Nordic and Rhopoint Komponenten, under the single name “Rhopoint Components.” This strategic consolidation reflects our commitment to simplifying customer interactions and enhancing service quality. By operating as a single entity, Rhopoint Components aims to streamline processes, expand our support capabilities, and provide a more cohesive experience for our valued customers across Europe.

Current locations of Rhopoint Components offices within the UK & Europe

Our Core Values

Integrity

We work with our customers and suppliers to establish robust and sustainable trading practices. Building honest and trustworthy relationships with our business partners as well as ensuring they adhere to the same principles as we do. In all aspects of our business, we pay attention to social and environmental impacts, human rights, anti-bribery and anti-corruption.

Commitment to Customers

We are committed to ensuring our customers have a positive and stress-free experience when working with us, from the initial contact to fulfilling any orders. This is reflected by offering technical and commercial support, clear communication, timely deliveries and ongoing customer care.

Continuous Development

Our employees are at the heart of our business, as such, we are committed to creating a safe working culture and an environment that inspires and nurtures our employees. We invest in our employees by providing appropriate training through ongoing development programmes tailored to their individual needs. This helps us to uphold the organisation’s and customers’ expectations and values.

Diversity

It is Rhopoint's policy to adhere to all legislation relating to employment rights and equal opportunities. It is our firm belief that all employees should have an equal level of advancement, access to opportunity and the training necessary to that end, irrespective of the employee's sex, race, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

Quality

Rhopoint Components Ltd has built a reputation of quality service and parts by providing a secure and trustworthy distribution for electronic components, sensors and resistors to our customers. This will be maintained through the effective implementation, ongoing maintenance and continual improvement of our management systems. These include our BS EN ISO 9001 certified quality management system and Cyber Essentials certification.

Quality & Environmental Management

At Rhopoint Components, we want you to have absolute confidence in the level of service you receive. We hold the following accreditations / certifications:

Visit our Policies & Certificates page for downloadable copies

Quality Management Procedures

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At Rhopoint Components, we want you to place your orders with complete confidence in the quality of the services and products you receive. We aim to ensure that we meet our customers’ needs, expectations, and requirements with our quality management procedures.

We endeavour to provide timely support and give direct feedback to customer enquiries to continually improve customer satisfaction.

Quality throughout the organisation is the responsibility of every team member throughout their day-to-day activities. To achieve our quality management policy, we are guided by the following:

Training

All employees are appropriately trained through on-going training and development programmes, so they understand the relevance and importance of their undertaking and how they contribute to the organisation’s and customers’ expectations.

Authentic products

As part of our authorised partnership with our suppliers, we only offer authentic products acquired from official sources. Please see our official counterfeit product statement here.

Full traceability

Complete transparency with full traceability back to the manufacturer as part of Rhopoint’s quality management process.

In-house testing

Sometimes parts require a little extra attention. To satisfy our quality management processes we occasionally perform some in-house testing and visual inspections to meet additional stringent requirements, where requested by our customers.

Certificate of Conformance

Options available for Certificate of Conformance documentation upon request, from either manufacturer or Rhopoint’s own certification.

Safe handling and transport

To ensure the safe handling and transport of your order we follow manufacturers handling processes and care procedures.

Environmental

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What we do

  • Encourage staff to manage property, plant and equipment in an energy efficient way
  • Provide recycling facilities for paper, printer toners etc.
  • Encourage double sided printing and copying
  • Use appropriately licensed organisations to remove and where possible recycle IT and electronic equipment in accordance with WEEE regulations
  • Provide a “Ride to Work”cycling scheme
  • Provide teleconferencing facilities at each location

Our Future Objectives

  • Avoid unnecessary business related travel by the use of video conferencing and telephone communication where possible
  • If business travel is necessary we will use the most environmentally friendly mode of transport, consistent with business needs
  • Reduce overall the resources we use
  • Aim for a paper-free office culture
  • Reducing use of paper letters and internal reports, where alternative electronic mechanisms can be used
  • Consider environmental criteria when choosing services and goods
  • Fundamentally, we will reduce our impact on the environment and ask that our staff, suppliers and clients do likewise

Rhopoint Components Ltd are committed to meeting all environmental rules and regulations set for the distribution industry and office management. As an important value to Rhopoint, we strive to protect our environment through various management practices and decisions seen throughout our business.

We support a precautionary approach to environmental management, which strives to anticipate and prevent potential environmental degradation. We are committed to complying with local, national, and international environmental regulations applicable to our operations and business services and will work towards integrating environmental considerations into our operations, asset management, and other business decisions, in all markets.

We intend to review and update our practices periodically to incorporate relevant developments in environmental management. We conduct internal environmental reviews and measure our activities against green goals.

We are committed to minimising the environmental impact of our operations by addressing the areas of energy use, business travel and waste management. We recognise our impact on the environment comes from:

  • Electricity to heat, cool and power manufacturing plant and office equipment
  • Gas for heating
  • Travel by air, road and rail to visit suppliers, clients and conduct internal meetings
  • Water in offices used for a variety of purposes
  • Resources such as paper
  • Waste including paper, plastic and electronic components and I.T. equipment