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Łódź, Poland: TME (Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o.), a global stockholding distributor of electronic components, has announced plans to begin serving US customers from its new warehouse in Marietta, Atlanta towards the end of Q1 2027. The facility will initially focus on larger and heavier products, such as T&M, cables and connectors, and some automation and control products, for which local storage can offer logistical and cost advantages. However, whilst most other products will still be shipped from TME’s highly-automated hub in Poland, for major US customers who need stock very quickly and are prepared to commit to a scheduled order program, TME will also stock in the US to fulfil their BOMs.
Comments Mark Burr-Lonnon, TME’s CEO Americas and Global Executive Consultant: “Our highly-automated logistics operations in Poland allow us to efficiently serve customers worldwide. Therefore, it makes good logistics and commercial sense for us and our customers to stock in depth there and ship worldwide. Our Atlanta warehouse facility will complement this operation, supplying parts that are not commercially viable to transport quickly across the ocean. And, if they need local inventory to satisfy their production schedules, we will be able to do that too.”
TME established a presence in the USA in 2019, but, despite growing by 60% this year, according to Burr-Lonnon, it is still “the biggest distributor in America that no one’s ever heard of.” He continues: “We’re doing lots of brand awareness activities, because, especially in an allocation market which we’re experiencing right now where people are looking all over the place for parts, if they don’t know that you’re an authorised distributor in North America, they just assume that you’re a broker – which we most definitely are not!”
In order to spread the message widely, TME is putting in place regional business development teams to talk directly to customers. The company has already engaged teams in the Southeast, (Atlanta), the West Coast and Arizona, and the North Central region, out of Chicago.
