September 2010 Archives

The Government has reaffirmed its commitment to expanding the UK's apprenticeship scheme.

Skills Minister John Hayes and called on national training associations to engage with more employers and get them involved with the apprenticeships programme.

Apprenticeship schemes have long been an important means for engineering companies and manufacturers to gain skilled workforces.

Schemes also now cover a wider area of business including media, law and IT.

The component market has always been dominated by a small group of global distributors.

The multinational's grip on the market has steadily tightened in the years before and after the 2008/9 market downturn.

Part of this was due to the growth of the catalogue companies driven by an aggressive move to online selling sites.

Amplicon has announced a supply agreement with EKF, a manufacturer of Compact PCI and Eurocard-based processor boards.

Amplicon will compliment its existing range of Compact PCI boards with EKF products such as the PC1-Groove a 3U Intel Core i7 based processing module, featuring the PICMG 2.30 bus standard and solid state disk storage.

Solid State Supplies has signed LedEngin, the LED emitter and solid-state lighting module manufacturer from California.

Arrow Nordic has been recognised by Kontron for its sales and support performance for the embedded board maker's products.