IN Brief:
- Anglia Components has signed a pan-European authorised distribution agreement with Same Sky.
- The deal covers audio, interconnect, motion and control, relay, sensor, switch, and thermal management products.
- Same Sky parts are now available through Anglia Live for UK and EU customers.
Anglia Components has signed a pan-European authorised distribution agreement with Same Sky, adding a broad range of components across audio, interconnect, motion and control, relay, sensor, switch, and thermal management technologies.
Same Sky, formerly known as CUI Devices, has expanded its portfolio across several component families used in embedded, industrial, instrumentation, building automation, healthcare, lighting, IoT, security, wireless, and wearable designs. Its products are now available through Anglia Live for customers in the UK and EU.
The agreement expands Anglia’s component offering and gives design teams access to additional parts for development, sampling, and production sourcing. Orders placed by 17:00 CET from Monday to Thursday are dispatched the same day, with duty-paid delivery to the EU in one to two days.
David Pearson, technical director at Anglia, said: “This partnership significantly enhances our audio portfolio and expands the breadth of innovative technologies we can offer. Same Sky also brings a rapidly developing range of interconnect solutions and an extensive selection of thermal management products, including Fans and Peltier devices. We are looking forward to bringing these innovative components to our UK and EU customer base through www.anglia-live.com, our online platform.”
For Same Sky, EMEA sales director Neil Whittington said: “We value Anglia’s blend of modern e-commerce capability and traditional people-centric service. Anglia is renowned for carrying a broad and deep inventory, which is particularly important to the many SMEs that make up a large portion of our European customer base.”
Distribution agreements still carry direct engineering consequences in component selection. Availability, sampling, authorised sourcing, and technical support can influence the parts that make it into a design as strongly as headline specification. That is especially true for electromechanical, sensing, audio, thermal, and control components, where footprint, lifetime, mounting, environmental rating, and supply continuity can affect the whole product architecture.
Same Sky’s portfolio spans areas that are becoming more tightly integrated inside modern electronic products. Audio interfaces are being used in industrial and medical equipment for alerts, feedback, status indication, and accessibility. Thermal management products are under greater pressure as embedded systems, edge devices, compact power electronics, and charging equipment push higher power into smaller spaces.
Interconnects, switches, relays, and sensors also have a growing role in product differentiation. Designs in industrial automation, smart buildings, instrumentation, and connected equipment increasingly need rugged mechanical performance alongside electrical reliability. A connector, switch, or thermal component selected early in the design cycle can shape enclosure layout, PCB constraints, serviceability, and certification work.
The agreement strengthens Anglia Live as a route for both catalogue purchasing and engineering-led component adoption. Anglia’s Ezysample service and NPI Express activity support early development stages, where engineers need evaluation quantities before committing to production volumes. That early availability can reduce redesign risk when component choices become fixed in board layouts, tooling, compliance files, and customer qualification processes.
European component distribution has also changed since recent supply disruption exposed weaknesses in narrow sourcing channels and limited stock visibility. Authorised supply, traceability, customs handling, and delivery certainty have become more prominent in procurement decisions. Duty-paid EU delivery reduces one source of delay for engineering and purchasing teams working across UK and European projects.
The agreement gives Same Sky broader access to UK and EU customers, including smaller engineering teams that often need manageable order quantities and direct support. For Anglia, it adds breadth in component categories that are specified early, used widely, and retained across multiple product generations.
