Grove Sales Ltd

Grove Sales Ltd: supplies for electronics manufacturing in Christchurch

Grove Sales Ltd is a supplier to the electronics manufacturing industry, based at Unit 3 Beaver Industrial Estate, 8 Airfield Road, Christchurch, Dorset. The company presents itself as a source of tools, accessories and consumable products at competitive prices, and its catalogue is organised around the practical needs of production floors, laboratories and workshops.

The business holds ISO 9001:2015 certification, according to the site, and operates an online shop with categories covering clothing, static control, soldering, extraction, inspection and general production aids. The site also indicates that next-day deliveries can be arranged by calling the sales team.

ESD clothing and workwear

A significant part of the catalogue is dedicated to electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for personnel. The range includes lab coats and lab jackets in standard and premium versions, with and without cuffs, as well as ESD T-shirts in short and long sleeve, polo shirts, sweatshirts in full-zip, half-zip and no-zip styles, fleece jackets, hoodies and tabards.

Complementary items include ESD gloves, an adjustable bum bag, a premium baseball cap, unisex hats and footwear such as ESD safety shoes, hybrid safety shoes, trainers, clogs, insoles and overshoes. A separate line covers non-ESD clothing and workwear, including T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, softshell jackets, hooded sweatshirts, fleeces, bomber jackets, bodywarmers and hi-viz garments, with an embroidery service offered for these items.

Static control for workstations and production areas

The static control section covers the equipment used to protect components and work areas. It includes ESD workstations and benches, such as cantilever benches, fixed-leg adjustable benches and bench accessories, along with handling products like Euro containers, picking bins, trollies, SMD reel holders, PCB storage and PCB magazine racks.

Packaging options include anti-static bubble wrap, static shield bags, pink anti-static bags and bubble bags, moisture barrier bags, packaging tape, humidity indicator cards and silica gel bags. The range extends to bench and floor matting with accessories, grounding items such as wrist straps and curly cords, earth bonding leads, plugs and points, heel and toe grounders, and testers including wrist strap and footwear testers and a surface resistance meter. Anti-static floor paint, dispensing bottles, ionizers, signs, labels, chairs, brushes, tapes and stationery complete this area.

Soldering, consumables and rework

Soldering equipment is organised around the Weller and Quick brands. For Weller, the catalogue lists solder stations, desoldering and rework equipment, control units, soldering irons and stands, elements and barrels, tips and nozzles, accessories, WXSMART products and a tool for building a custom Weller kit. The Quick range includes solder stations, soldering irons and stands, control units, solder pots, hot air rework stations, desoldering and rework stations, accessories, tips and nozzles, ionizers, desoldering tips and PCB hotplates and holders.

Consumables cover lead-free and leaded solder wire, solder bars and pellets, solder flux and thinners, solder paste and SMT adhesive tacky paste flux. Accessories include desolder pumps, desolder braid, Bonkote flux pens, rework wands, tip tinner, lead-free tip cleaners, peelable coating mask, Super Deox and a solder dispenser. Tapes include polyimide tape and dots, masking and grid tape, conformal coating tape, splice tape, cover extender tape and copper foil tape. Squeegees are offered as a hand-held metal blade model with replacement stainless steel blades, and wave solder spares include titanium strips, fingers and a PCB board carrier.

Fume and dust extraction, equipment and inspection

Extraction products are grouped under Donaldson BOFA, with filters, DustPro systems and filters, FumeKart filters and accessories, and applications listed for electronics, laser, additive manufacturing and 3D printing, printing, mechanical engineering, dental, and pharmaceutical and medical uses. Weller extraction is also represented through filters, volume extraction kits and units, tip extraction kits and units, extraction arms and nozzles, and the Zero Smog Shield Pro.

New equipment includes general-purpose ovens with fan assistance and either a clad or stainless steel interior, DRYSTOR cabinets, conveyors, depanelizers with DPF 200/300 spares, component processing loader and unloader systems, and inspection and magnification equipment from Vision Engineering. The latter covers the EVO Cam ICON, EVO Cam HALO, Mantis Pixo, Ergo and Iota, Mantis Compact, Mantis Elite, Mantis Elite Cam HD, Evo Cam II, Lynx EVO and DRV-Z1 digital stereo viewer, alongside bench magnifying lamps and a digital microscope.

Cleaning, hand tools and production aids

The cleaning range includes hand sanitiser, liquid cleaners, isopropanol (IPA), de-ionised water and Ambersil products, plus cleaning wipes in IPA, wet and dry versions and stencil cleaning rolls. Stencil cleaning rolls are also listed by equipment brand, including DEK, MPM/Speedline, EKRA, Speed Print, Panasonic, Yamaha, Samsung and Desen.

Hand tools include knives, scalpels and scissors, cutters, pliers, depaneling tools, distance cutters, wire strippers, screwdrivers and tweezers. The catalogue also lists standard cantilever and fixed-leg adjustable workstations with bench accessories, safety shoes, batteries and torches, brushes, gloves, tapes and paper products.

Practical information

The company operates an online shop with customer accounts and password recovery, and the site is available in English, French and Spanish with prices shown in pounds sterling. The sales team can be reached on 01202 588900 to arrange next-day deliveries.