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6th June 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has signed a distribution agreement with Wanzl to distribute their Access Control systems including Interior and Exterior Security Gates and turnstiles.  

Wanzl provide all the tools that consumer-facing businesses need to carry out their day-to-day operations and help them realise their maximum trading potential and keep people safe.

Working with retailers, airport operators, logistics providers, distribution centres, hoteliers and leisure providers, Wanzl develop, produce, deliver and maintain the equipment and solutions to help regulate people flow and keep sensitive areas and assets safe.

Since 1947, Wanzl have set and raised the global benchmark for outstanding quality and ground-breaking innovations. With 27 local subsidiaries and countless representative partners located all over the world, their local teams are experts within their regions and ensure their customers have the benefit of a truly global service, delivered locally.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director commented ‘We’re excited to partner with Wanzl and become a distributor of their Access Control Products. Working with our integrator partners we are seeing more and more requirements for turnstiles and security gates that can be integrated as part of a total security solution.’

Ross continued ‘Not only does Wanzl offer a full range of Access Control Products they also go above and beyond with their service offering, they will visit our customer site’s, develop the most cost-effective system for them, provide full site survey’s, specs and drawings. Wanzl offer a 24/7 national field service coverage across UK & Ireland. With this full product and service offering we are confident that Wanzl can fully support our customers and give them the best service that they’ve come to expect from working with Mayflex.

Marc Radforth, Sales & Marketing Director for Wanzl added “Wanzl are excited to partner with Mayflex. Our partnership brings together Wanzl’s industry-leading, quality access control systems and Mayflex’s specialist technical infrastructure expertise to offer integrators and end users a true end-to-end service, delivering integrated access control systems.”

For more details on the range, products and features visit the Mayflex website where you can also sign up to stay up to date with all the latest information about Wanzl and the other brands we offer. Keep following our LinkedIn account, email and newsletter communications for details on any special introductory offers.

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May 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has recently gone through a complete transformation of its offices and meeting rooms, as their office staff return to a new hybrid way of working.

Martin Eccleston, Commercial Manager commented ‘As with most businesses when Covid hit, our office-based staff all changed to working from home full time.  Thanks to technology and in particular Microsoft Teams it meant that we could communicate easily with each other and still offer a good service level to our customers.’

Martin continued ‘Towards the end of last year, the decision was taken to completely refurbish the offices and meeting rooms at the head office to create a fresh and inviting place for staff to work from and to bring customers and vendor partners into.  From January, we have worked with interior design specialists, aci, to completely transform the HQ.’

Tracey Calcutt, Marketing Manager said ‘We now have a fresh space to allow for collaboration, creativity and the bringing together of different teams and people in one safe place.  Our teams are working either two or three days a week in the office which now has 60 hot desks, including several standing desks, which are bookable via an app.  The upstairs office space has numerous informal meeting areas where associates and teams can have discussions or meetings.’

Tracey continued ‘The downstairs has also been remodelled with a new Mtech that when completed will become a full-time exhibition area to display the key products and services available.  There is a 30-seat conference suite and a Meeting Village that has 5 meeting rooms holding from 12 to 4 people, all of which have the latest state-of-the-art AV equipment and online booking system.  Lastly but most importantly there is a new large canteen area for use by both the office and warehouse associates, which includes a pool table, video machine and dart board to entertain associates on their breaks and encourage more interaction between the teams.’

Tracey concluded ‘We feel that moving to a new hybrid way of working gives our associates the best of both worlds and brings people together on a regular basis and keeps the team spirit high.  We can more easily deliver regular and interactive training and we can ensure the welfare of our associates.  It also allows us to attract and keep new fresh talent who wouldn’t necessarily be happy working from home in an isolated environment without that team interaction.’

The new meeting facilities are available to our customers and vendor partners to utilise as and when required.   If you have a requirement, please speak to your Mayflex account manager, or contact the team on 0800 75 75 65.

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April 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has appointed Simon Steer in the role of Director of Sales for Security.  

Simon has extensive experience in the industry having previously worked for Indigo Vision for the last 10 years, where his last position was Sales Director covering the UK and Ireland and prior to that he worked for an installer for 8 years in the security industry.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director at Mayflex commented, “We are delighted to welcome Simon to the team, he has good technical knowledge and commercial experience and great leadership qualities which will all be crucial for driving our continued growth of our security focused business.”    

Ross continued “Simon will be leading our external security team with a focus on the UK and he will be working closely with our security vendors to continue building our close relationships with brands such as Avigilon, Axis, Hikvision, Milestone, Mobotix, Paxton, Suprema and Wavestore to name but a few.”

Simon commented, “I’m very much looking forward to being part of the Mayflex team, it’s a business that has continued to grow and evolve and one that puts the customer at the heart of everything that it does. I’m excited about getting to know my team, the Mayflex associates and most importantly getting to know and support our customers.”

Ross concluded “In the first few weeks Simon will undergo a comprehensive induction to bring him up to speed on everything that is Mayflex and particularly around our security business.  For anyone needing to make contact with Simon, he will be available at simon.steer@mayflex.com or mob 07787 527376.”

For further details on the full range of security products distributed by visit the Mayflex website.

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Excel Networking, the number one cabling brand in the UK market according to BSRIA research, has now certified all of its copper cabling to meet UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed), way ahead of the 2023 deadline.

The UKCA marking came into effect from 1st January 2021 because of the UK leaving the EU.  All products entering the UK market will need to carry this marking from 1st January 2023, where previously the CE mark was used.

Neil Payne, Excel Product Manager commented “The Excel cable will carry both the UKCA and CE markings since the cable is sold in both Europe and the UK.  The UKCA marking has no effect on the CPR classification, in fact it adds to the validity of the cable’s classification, as all cables are subject to a secondary test in the UK to verify the cables CPR classification.”

Neil continued “Having the UKCA in place so early gives our customers further assurance in the legal compliance and reliability when specifying and installing Excel cables, knowing that the correct certification is in place, particularly when bidding for projects in coming weeks where deployment runs into 2023."

Neil concluded “Our ‘Declaration of Performance’ certificates for each product will include both the UKCA and CE information and the product labels will also clearly show the markings.  Products with the UKCA certification markings will start to enter our stocks over the next quarter.  We encourage our customers to check the UKCA certification status of any other cables they are installing, as the date at which this becomes a legal requirement is fast approaching.”

Excel cable is available in various CPR Euroclasses but for installations to meet and comply with the British Standard BS6701:2016+A1:2017 they should meet the minimum standard of Euroclass Cca, s1b, d2, a2.  Excel has worked tirelessly over the last few years to educate installation partners and consultants and has a full range of collateral in place that explains everything in detail - see https://excel-networking.com/understanding-cpr. 

Excel cabling installations can also be covered by a 25-year warranty when installed by an authorised Excel Partner.

To view the full range of Excel copper cabling products available from Mayflex in the UK please visit https://mayflex.com/shop/d/structured-cabling.

Contact the Mayflex sales team on 0800 75 75 65 or email sales@mayflex.com for prices and availability.

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9th February 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, is pleased to announce the winners from the 2021 webinar prize draw entries for the multi award-winning test and measurement solutions from AEM.

Mayflex partnered with AEM in November 2021 to bring their innovative solutions to the UK, providing customers with a greater choice and more options when it comes to testing.  To introduce customers to AEM, Mayflex hosted a series of 10 webinars that ran in November and December, with the added incentive that all attendees were entered in a prize draw to win up to £10,000 worth of AEM equipment.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director commented ‘We had a great response and there has been much interest in AEM.   All attendees to the webinars were put into a prize draw and the two lucky winners were ACI, with the TestPro CV100 presented to Thomas Drain by Davy Edgar on behalf of AEM and Mayflex and Keynet Solutions in London, with the NSA presented to Kevin Dowling by Paul Collins, Mayflex Account Director.’

Ross continued ‘The AEM tester range includes numerous technical features and benefits and they are approved by all the major manufacturers for warranty purposes.  The other big advantage is that the TestPro CV100 kits come with a 3-year extended care plan which covers the yearly calibration and even covers any accidental damage, so the ongoing costs are kept to an absolute minimum, virtually zero!’

Ross concluded ‘We have a new series of introductory AEM webinars available as well as an on-demand version that can be viewed at any time to suit our customers.    We have also launched a series of regular ‘Hands on AEM’ demonstration days during 2022 at venues in Birmingham, Scotland, Bristol and London, to show the many features and benefits of the range and enable customers to experience and try the copper, fibre and NSA testers and talk to the experts – details are now available via our website to book onto these informal events.’

To learn more about the AEM tester range please visit our website or alternatively contact the sales team on 0800 75 75 65 or email sales@mayflex.com.  Keep following our LinkedIn account, email and newsletter communications for details on any special offers.

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17th January 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, is delighted to announce an exclusive agreement to be the sole distributor for Wavestore VMS solutions in the UK.  

Mayflex has distributed Wavestore for many years and the relationship is now moving on to become an exclusive partnership. Wavestore is well-known for its innovative and unique technologies. Wavestore provide highly secure, intelligent open-platform video management solutions (VMS).

Ross McLetchie, Mayflex Sales Director commented ‘We are really pleased to move our partnership with Wavestore to the next level. Wavestore is a fantastic product. Being a completely open platform offers so many benefits, complementing both our existing security portfolio and the wider markets.” 

Ross continued ‘Wavestore is a British product and with their R&D team here in the UK, this adds a layer of flexibility to any customers that require features to be developed for their specific security applications. The Wavestore roadmap is exciting and will feature Cloud based products and solutions very soon.”

Wavestore VMS software is truly independent and open-platform, allowing you to create best-in-breed security and surveillance solutions that mix-and-match technology from the world-leading brands. Whether it be CCTV, Access control, intelligent video analytics, intrusion detection, audio, intercom, lighting, control room environment, Wavestore is the platform that pulls it all together.

Mark Claxton, Wavestore Managing Director commented, ‘We are really excited to move to an exclusive arrangement with Mayflex, they are the ideal fit for Wavestore with their consultative approach to solution selling and being able to offer the complete converged solution, from Infrastructure products via Excel, through to the best-of-breed security solutions we both share relationships with. With our exclusive partnership, this brings us closer together and creates opportunities for further growth into 2022 and beyond.’

For more details on the Wavestore features and benefits please either visit the Mayflex or Wavestore website or contact your Mayflex representative or the security sales team on 0121 326 2228 or email securitysales@mayflex.com. Keep following our LinkedIn account, email and newsletter communications for further details on Wavestore.

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10th January 2022, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has launched a hire service for the multi award-winning test and measurement solutions from AEM.

Mayflex partnered with AEM in November 2021 to bring their innovative solutions to the UK, providing customers with a greater choice and more options when it comes to testing.  The TestPro CV100 model has the quickest Cat6A autotest at just 6 seconds, just a third of the time required by some alternative offerings on the market today.  The TestPro CV100 kits also come with a 3-year extended warranty package which means no additional costs over that period to keep the tester updated, calibrated and even repaired should they experience accidental damage.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director commented ‘Since the launch of AEM in the UK we’ve had a fantastic response from our customers, we ran 16 webinars up until 16th December where numerous customers attended to find out more about AEM and their tester range.   We’ve also conducted many product demonstrations and the sales in the initial months have far exceeded our expectations, as our customers have realised the technical and financial benefits of choosing AEM.’

Ross continued ‘We do understand that for any installation company the initial outlay to purchase testers can be quite considerable.  To this end we will be offering our customers the opportunity to hire an AEM tester on a weekly basis, as and when required, at a competitive weekly rental price.   This also gives customers the chance to try the AEM TestPro or Network Service Assistant to see the many benefits on offer and experience the ease of use, before they decide to buy one.’

Ross continued ‘Customers can trust AEM, they have won multiple awards over recent years, their testers are approved by all the major manufacturers for warranty purposes and more are being added all the time.’

Ross concluded ‘We will be running more webinars and regular ‘Hands on AEM’ demonstration days throughout the UK during 2022 to show the many features and benefits of the range – more details will be available via our website shortly.’

For more details on the AEM Hire Service and for features and technical specifications of the range visit the Mayflex website.  Keep following our LinkedIn account, email and newsletter communications for details on any special introductory offers.

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8th November 2021, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with AEM to distribute their multi award-winning test and measurement solutions in the UK.

AEM is a well-established, $600M, organisation with more than 25 years of delivering innovative advanced test capability products, across a broad range of technologies.  With a major sales presence in the USA, Asia, India and the Middle East, AEM have partnered with Mayflex to bring their innovative solutions to the UK, providing customers with a greater choice and more options when it comes to testing and together providing ‘certifiably better testing’.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director commented ‘We are excited to partner with AEM, with their significant international experience and an innovative, feature packed range of testers with many USPs, that we know will excite our customer base.  For instance, their TestPro CV100 model has the quickest Cat6A autotest at just 6 seconds, just a third of the time required by some alternative offerings on the market today.’ 

Ross continued ‘Their UK based calibration and service centre will radically reduce the amount of time that an installer is without a tester, something that we know is critical to most users that can’t afford to be without a tester for too long.   To make ownership of their kit as simple and affordable as possible, units are sold complete with a 3-year care plan, no small print, and no recurring annual costs for calibration and service.’

Ross concluded ‘Customers can trust AEM, they have won multiple awards over recent years, their testers are approved by most cable system manufacturers for warranty purposes, and of course Mayflex have completed significant due diligence before committing to bring the product to the UK market, resulting in this launch being supported by a 30 day money back guarantee.’

For more details on the range, features and technical specification visit the Mayflex website where you can also sign up to learn more about AEM, at one of our online demonstrations that are taking place until 16th December and just by attending you could be in with a chance of winning up to £10,000 worth of AEM test equipment.   Keep following our LinkedIn account, email and newsletter communications for details on any special introductory offers.

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Excel Networking, the number one cabling brand in the UK market according to BSRIA research, has been named as a finalist for the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability and Efficiency’ category in the DCS Awards 2021. The DCS Awards – now in their eleventh year – are designed to recognise and congratulate data centre industry innovation.

Tracey Calcutt, Marketing Manager commented “We are delighted to be shortlisted in this year’s DCS Awards.  We are proud to be leading the way when it comes to removing single use plastic from the supply chain, so we were excited to learn that this year, for the first time, the DCS Awards included a specific energy efficiency/sustainability innovation award.”

Since August 2019 Excel Networking have been delivering the majority of their products in plastic free packaging, saving over 16 Million plastic bags from the entering the supply chain each year. This was a first for any cabling brand in the industry and surprisingly it is still the only brand to be fully plastic free across all of the cabling and connectivity products.

Tracey continued “Not only are the majority of our Excel brand’s products supplied in plastic free packaging, but also our product shipments are dispatched from our warehouses with recycled paper and card alternatives, rather than using conventional bubble wrap and plastic tape.”

Tracey concluded “The Excel brand is owned by Mayflex, part of the Sonepar Group which is a 23Billion Euro global organisation and as a group there is strong commitment and drive to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint and to become carbon neutral by 2040, as well as accelerating the market adoption of clean energy solutions.”

Selection for this award is based on public vote. Please help us by voting for Excel Networking Solutions here.

Voting closes on 15th October 2021 and the following rules apply:

You can make only one vote per award category.
Votes will only be accepted from a current business email address.
Votes from third party email providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) will NOT be counted.
A nominated company or supplier cannot vote for themselves any such votes will NOT be counted.

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September 2021, Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has launched a new app designed to make it as easy and simple as possible for customers to order products and check product and pricing information when they are out on site and on the move.

The app is being launched under the ‘Tap the APP’ campaign which highlights the simplicity and many benefits that the app brings to the Mayflex customer base.   Watch this short video to get a brief introduction in to the many business benefits.

Ross McLetchie, Sales Director commented ‘We are excited to launch the app, we’ve listened to our customers on how we can continue to improve their experience of working with Mayflex and introducing an app was a direct result of their feedback.”

Ross continued ‘This isn’t something that we’ve rushed, working with an experienced third party specialist we’ve spent a considerable amount of time developing the app to make sure that it adds value to our customers and provides a robust and secure platform to ensure that they can order with confidence, wherever they are and literally with a ‘Tap of the APP’. 

Ross concluded ‘The Mayflex app includes many of the benefits of the Mayflex webshop and a few more. Customers can browse products, scan product barcodes to add products to their basket, see their prices, set up their favourites, set up shopping lists, order cut cable, download spec sheets, as well as receive exclusive offers all from a mobile or desktop device. The Mayflex app will continue to evolve, and we will listen to our customers to ensure that they have a good experience of working with Mayflex whether it’s by the app, Webshop, Trade Counter or via our sales teams.’

Mayflex customers can download the ‘Mayflex app’ from the App Store or via Google Play.  To find out more about the benefits of the Mayflex app visit https://mayflex.com/mayflex-app

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