Anglia has gained the AS9120 certification which means it can supply components for safety critical flight systems for the aerospace and defence industries.
Component distributors in the UK are more confident about business prospects than at any time in the last three months.
A survey of 20 managers in the distribution sector found that two-thirds were more confident of business prospects than three months ago.
There is "massive oversupply" in the solar power supply chain, according to market watcher iSuppli.
Supply chain companies serving the aerospace sector can look forward to a welcome injection of government-funded investment.
A report on Reuters quotes a US analyst saying that he expects the electronic distribution sector to turn up by the turn of the year.
Ericsson Power Modules has extended its distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics to include the Asia Pacific regions.
Acal has seen a stabilisation in trading conditions in the last three months.
Wilson Process Systems (WPS) is bucking the downturn and has expanded its manufacturing capabilities and added a second production facility.
The current economic climate has affected businesses large and small, but it does not have to be all about doom and gloom. I found that Christos Papakyriacou, managing director at Alpha Micro Components had some interesting comments to make on the subject.
Surtech Distribution will add power outlets to its enclosures business with the acquisition of intellectual property rights to a range of power distribution units (PDUs) formally manufactured by Modular Power Products of Mildenhall, Suffolk.
Arrow has signed up the Johanson line of passive component products, which includes Johanson Dielectrics, Johanson Technology and Advanced Monolythic Ceramics in Europe.
Europe's PC market is 'technically' in recession as it has contracted for two consecutive quarters.
Amplicon has created a test systems division to address the need for specialist test system hardware such as PXI, Compact PCI, LXI and PC-based systems to support UK-based manufacturers.
Nujira has signed a global distribution agreement with Richardson Electronics.
This is the Cambridge-based power module firm's first global distribution deal and is in line with its plan to address the cellular infrastructure and defence markets.
Digi-Key has signed a global distribution agreement with Fujitsu Microelectronics and is particularly interested in offering its 8-bit microcontrollers and digital touch-screen sensor ICs.
Something interesting has happened in the component supply chain.
Afdec, the UK component distribution representative body, is dramatically widening its field of reference to represent companies in the complete supply change from research organisations through to product design companies.
Ismosys, the demand creation vehicle of repping company Spectrum Electronics, puts on its "newly-designed" distributor hat and offers a range of network cards from Interphase.
If it is to be the mobile phone infrastructure market which will pull the industry around, and a number of chip suppliers have said as much, then things look pretty promising right now.
RS Components is tapping in to the growing market for electronic surveillance system development.
A welcome example of a company supporting electronics students.
Premier Farnell is inviting scholarships applications from students worldwide who are registered in a full time Electrical and Electronics Engineering course in the 2009 entry year.
MSC-Gleichmann has set up a sales division for its quartz devices and high-frequency products.
The worst of the recession is over for UK manufacturers, says a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
This is the first positive business survey to come out of the UK industrial sector for about a year.
Rutronik has extended its Fastrax franchise to the UK and Ireland.
As a result Rutronik will carry the Finnish firm's GPS radio receivers and development kits.
JPK Instruments, the supplier of specialist nanotechnology instruments, has opened its first offices in Japan together with the appointment of Nobuhiro Saito as country manager.
Former AMD executive Jay Nunez has joined Mirics Semiconductor and he has been tasked with driving the digital Tv tuner company's commercial growth in the US and Europe.
The first important stage in the design process - developing a proof of concept - can be exciting and frustrating at the same time, writes Lars Thornqvist , FAE at Future Electronics.
On the one hand, it opens up the opportunity to do something new and creative. On the other, the process of connecting components, loading and bringing up an operating system, and porting and testing application code can be time-consuming, error-prone and tedious.
Acal has teamed with supply chain systems specialist ByBox to optimise the delivery services it offers customers in the IT sector.
But the approach is also likely to be extended to Acal's electronics businesses in due course.
Nu Horizons is soon to offer the latest Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGAs.
Spartan 6 will also be a headline feature of Avnet Silica's next X-Fest event which takes place in the UK on November 3 at Silverstone.
A market downturn is not the most obvious time for a distributor to take on the extra cost burden of new product lines.
Yet, Ismosys, RS, EBV and Digi-Key are amongst those distributors which looked at the figures coming out of the European market in the last couple of months and signed new lines to address specific markets.
