Our Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre continually designs and assembles custom interconnect solutions and cable assemblies to customers specifications.

Acal BFi – Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre

A design led approach to interconnect and cable assembly

We are a market leader in the design and assembly of custom cables and connectors across a range of applications and environments. Our Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre continually designs and assembles custom interconnect solutions and cable assemblies to customers specifications.

Providing and customising bespoke specialist fibre and cables including hybrids with custom connectors, the Technology Centre is on hand to support with design, assembly, testing and approvals for your customised solutions.

Our team have long standing strategic partnerships with specialist manufacturers of cable and connectors, such as our 55-year partnership with Amphenol. We guarantee consistent quality whatever the market or application. An in-house, purpose-built, ISO9001-accredited, custom cable assembly centre ensures we have the resources and expertise to provide any solution.

Specialist interconnect and cable assembly capabilities

The capabilities and expertise housed within the Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre ensure that our team can support you every step of the way.

Design

We provide assistance with all stages of your project from component sourcing to complete design services, including specification of the most appropriate connector and cable solution to meet any specific environmental, mechanical and electrical performance requirements, all backed by our long-established expertise in connector and cable technology.

Custom connector configurations

Our experience in the design and manufacture of cable assemblies, harnesses and flexes combined with our comprehensive portfolio of leading cable and connector technologies, means we can deliver the best interconnect systems for you. Our considerable knowledge means that we can develop and source custom cables and connector configurations, tailor made to meet the most demanding of applications. We can also source alternatives which are backwards compatible with many leading brands.

Cable assembly over moulding

We offer a fast and flexible service for over moulding cables and connectors for most leading connector manufacturers’ products, suitable for any harsh environment application.

Fibre installation and training

Our in-house custom cable assembly centre was purposely developed to extend the quality of service that we could provide to you. Our support doesn’t end once your product has been assembled. Effective installation is essential to the success of the project, which is why we offer comprehensive training and installation services to ensure complete product integration and provide a higher level of understanding.

Pre-approvals testing

We ensure that your customised solution meets the requirements for approval by regional bodies, before submitting the application for testing. Our facilities for pre-EMC compliance testing provide application ready, tested solutions that are standards compliant and provide you with peace of mind.

Approved Amphenol assembly centre

As an authorised cable assembly centre for Amphenol that can deliver end to end support for your application, we’re uniquely placed to deliver ruggedised cable and connector assemblies in aerospace and defence, and other harsh environment markets. When your expert in-house resource is limited, we can provide technical consultation with no minimum order requirements.

Fibre optic cable assembly manufacturing centre

We offer a unique fibre optic / hybrid fibre optic and copper cable assembly service for military, commercial, and industrial applications.

With an in-house, purpose-built, ISO9001-accredited, custom-assembly centre, established capability and long-standing partnerships with leading suppliers, we have the resources and expertise to provide a complete tailor-made fibre optic assembly solution to meet your needs.

Technology integrations

When you come to us, you can also benefit from all of our knowledge, not just the Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre but the capabilities that we hold throughout all of Acal BFi. It is this unique breadth of offering that sets us apart and enables us to provide you with a powerful integrated custom technology solution.

Contact us

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When resource or capacity is limited, you can depend upon our knowledge and dedicated Technology Centres to support you from concept through to production

Our Technology Centres

BioPhotonics

With more than 15 years of experience in sales, installation, and service of BioPhotonics systems, we can offer products and solutions tailored to your specific requirements.

The wide range of BioPhotonics cameras, lasers, LED light sources, spectrometers, optical components, microscope systems, microscope accessories, and associated software enables us to assemble almost any photonics or imaging solution.

Embedded Computing

The Embedded Computing Technology Centre drives advanced solutions, so you can deliver the technologies of tomorrow – today.

Design customer driven systems, build prototypes and manufacture products to meet your distinct needs. Many of the platform-based technologies that we offer were designed with customisation in mind.

Our capabilities help us to offer solutions across all stages of your project. Whether your requirements are standard, modified or highly customised, our experts support and identify your aims and work to ensure that we provide a solution that fits.

Fibre Optics

The Fibre Optics Technology Centre allows our engineers to develop fibre optic solutions to meet changing demands in a high-speed world.

With over 25 years of experience in fibre optics and application engineering for hardware and components, we help to analyse and qualify to improve the stability and functionality of your transceivers. Supporting our engineers with expertise and state of the art technology, the Fibre Optics Technology Centre houses a number of our specialist capabilities.

Infrared Imaging

Our specialist infrared team are available to support your development process from design to build by ensuring you have everything you need, when you need it.

The approach to any infrared imaging project begins by listening intently to ensure that we fully understand your specific requirements. It’s only then that we can advise you on the best suited infrared technology – from cores and lenses to detectors, blackbodies, and processing boards – and help you plan the design, manufacture, and test process.

Interconnect and Cable Assembly

The capabilities and expertise housed within the Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre ensure that our team can support you every step of the way.

Providing and customising bespoke specialist fibre and cables including hybrids with custom connectors, the Technology Centre is on hand to support with design, assembly, testing and approvals for your customised solutions.

IoT and wireless

The IoT and Wireless Technology Centre has the ability to support complex discrete component design-in from a bespoke System on Chip (SoC), right through to fully integrated modules that are certified and application ready.

Creating custom solutions that add connectivity to an application requires specialist expertise and capabilities. Our team of wireless technology hardware design and software application engineers cover RF, wireless, cellular and many more state-of-the-art technologies. Together they have extensive individual and collective experience of developing customised solutions, ensuring we can bring your concept to life.

Magnetic Products

The Magnetic Products Technology Centre is at the forefront of our solution led approach for applications that require customised cores and components, driving our commitment to developing an enhanced technological future together.

Over the last 25 years, we have grown our expertise in the design-led customisation of magnetic components. With the largest team of technical support specialists, the Magnetic Products Technology Centre is at the forefront of magnetic based technological advancements. Our team design and manufacture magnetic components including transformers, inductors, and even cores to meet the technical and commercial aspects of your project, whether you are in design or production.

Power Supply

The extensive breadth of experience held by our in-house design industrial power engineers ensures that we have the expertise to develop customised industrial power supply solutions, ranging from 1W to 25kW for a wide range of applications.

Whether you’re looking to modify or configure a standard power product, integrate it into a custom design, design and modify a rack, chassis, PCB, or require a full custom-designed power solution, our Power Supply Technology Centre can support you with the design, assembly, testing and integration of a tailored industrial power solution to meet your specific application’s requirements.