TME (Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o.), an international distributor of electronic components, is preparing to expand its US operations by opening a new warehouse in Marietta, Atlanta, with deliveries expected to begin towards the end of Q1 2027.
Initially, the facility will handle larger and heavier product categories, including test and measurement equipment, cables, connectors, and selected automation and control products. Storing these items locally is expected to improve delivery efficiency while reducing logistics costs.
Other products will continue to be dispatched primarily from TME’s highly automated distribution centre in Poland. However, the company will also offer US-based inventory for major customers requiring faster access to stock, provided they commit to scheduled ordering programmes. This arrangement will enable TME to fulfil their bills of materials (BOMs) more efficiently.
Comments Mark Burr-Lonnon, TME’s CEO Americas and Global Executive Consultant: “Our highly-automated logistics operations in Poland allow us to efficiently serve customers worldwide. Therefore, it makes good logistics and commercial sense for us and our customers to stock in depth there and ship worldwide. Our Atlanta warehouse facility will complement this operation, supplying parts that are not commercially viable to transport quickly across the ocean. And, if they need local inventory to satisfy their production schedules, we will be able to do that too.”
TME established a presence in the USA in 2019, but, despite growing by 60% this year, according to Burr-Lonnon, it is still “the biggest distributor in America that no one’s ever heard of.” He continues: “We’re doing lots of brand awareness activities, because, especially in an allocation market which we’re experiencing right now where people are looking all over the place for parts, if they don’t know that you’re an authorised distributor in North America, they just assume that you’re a broker – which we most definitely are not!”
In order to spread the message widely, TME is putting in place regional business development teams to talk directly to customers. The company has already engaged teams in the Southeast, (Atlanta), the West Coast and Arizona, and the North Central region, out of Chicago.
