We stock, sell, supply, and support a portfolio of 80,000 electrical, electronic and pneumatic products that are used within control systems or machinery to make equipment or processes operate automatically and efficiently.
Over 50 years we have built a reputation with more than 10,000 customers as a specialist, technical distributor committed to excellent product support and first-class customer service. Our product portfolio stretches from push-buttons and isolators to sophisticated software solutions and robotics.
We now number over one hundred and fifty people throughout our 12 locations but remain an independent responsive and dynamic business.
BPG Electro Mechanical Supply Co employs its first member of staff and opens in a tiny trianglar-shaped office in Marjorie Street, Leicester.
BPG Electro Mechanical Supply Co splits from joint founders BPG and becomes BPX Electro Mechanical Co. Ltd.
BPX becomes the UK's first Telemecanique distributor.
BPX adds the key distributorships for Klippon Terminals (later to become Weidmuller) and Keyswitch relays.
The BPX "Superior Service" logo is born.
Leicester Switch & Control becomes the first subsidiary of the BPX Group manufacturing control panels and systems.
BPX Nottingham becomes the company's first branch office.
BPX passes £1M sales of Telemecanique control equipment.
BPX moves to current head office in Ross Walk with 20,000 sq ft warehouse.
BPX signs distributorship with Mitsubishi for distribution of PLCs, Inverters and factory automation equipment.
Controls and Drives is formed and becomes the third BPX Group business specialising in the provision of automation services, support and training.
BPX passes £2M sales of Telemecanique control equipment.
BPX Wakefield opens as the Mitsubishi Distributor in Yorkshire.
BPX takes over the business of Network Electrical and BPX Stoke opens as the Mitsubishi distributor for Staffordshire.
BPX Northampton opens with a branch almost at the foot of the Express Lifts tower as the appointed Telemecanique distributor for Northamptonshire.
Ranger Computer systems is formed as the BPX Group's computer division distribution PC's, network products and software to industrial customers.
BPX signs historic £2M control with Boots PLC for the design, development and installation of energy saving systems and the BPX Energy Division is born.
BPX Sheffield opens to expand the BPX Mitsubishi distributorship in Yorkshire.
BPX Sheffield and BPX Leeds move to a new regional headquarters in Wakefield incorporating Mitsubishi's Northern Regional Office.
Leicester Switch and Control relocates to bigger manufacturing premises, so increasing the BPX warehousing area.
BPX Slough branch opens on the UK's largest Industrial Estate and becomes the fourth Schneider distributorship in the network.
BPX welcomed the management of Schneider Electric Ltd to BPX's Leicester HQ to mark the company's achievement of £3M purchases of Schneider control and automation product in 2006.
BPX acquires the company Prolocon Systems Ltd. The Prolocon location complements the existing seven distribution branches and becomes the new BPX Hertfordshire branch based in Welwyn Garden City.
BPX opens its ninth branch with an expansion into East Anglia and a new office at Newmarket, reinforcing the position of BPX as the UK's largest Mitsubishi distributor.
999 Automation is launched as the specialist online brand of BPX.
BPX Wakefield moves to larger, self-contained premises.
BPX Manchester is formed from the purchase by BPX and JK Electrical the longstanding Schneider distributor in Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
Red8RF is formed as a diversification by the BPX Group into the field of RF Dielectric heating.
BPX celebrates its 50th anniversary!
BPX Slough moves to larger premises to support it's growing customer base.
BPX Ireland opens for business to deliver first class products support to the Irish republic.
