Company Profile

SMC - Leading Pneumatic Expert Worldwide

About us

With 50 years' experience and a global reputation for excellence, some companies might be content to rest on their laurels. But at pneumatics market leaders SMC, we continue to invest in new product development initiatives. We aim to continue meeting our users' needs with innovative, high-quality products, from cost-effective production and logistics, supported by local engineering expertise.

Established in Japan in 1959, SMC has pursued a strategy of sustainable global growth so that we now have a presence in 78 countries worldwide. Our UK office opened in 1978; since 1998 SMC Pneumatics (UK) Ltd has occupied a 24,000m² purpose-built production, logistics and administration facility in Milton Keynes, only minutes from the M1 motorway and the west coast railway line. The UK office is co-located with SMC Corporation's European Technical Centre, where around 100 design engineers offer Europe-wide technical support for local market needs.

In addition to the 160 staff based in Milton Keynes, SMC has a nationwide sales team of over 100 technically-trained sales engineers. Thanks to excellent relationships with 40 regional and national distributors, SMC products are sold at 750 trade counters across the entire UK - so you can contact us and buy parts in the way that suits you best.

All SMC products are manufactured within an approved ISO9001 quality management system, to ensure consistency of manufacture and ultimately a long and totally reliable operating life for guaranteed peace of mind.

Despite the recent economic downturn, programmes to successfully improve cost efficiency and promote the benefits of cost-saving products to our customers have so far enabled SMC to weather the storm, leaving us better placed than ever to continue meeting customer needs with innovative solutions.