September 2011 Archives

PEI-Genesis is to add the Cinch MIL-C-26500/BACC45 & 63 product line to its existing range of connectors for aerospace and military markets.

Anglia Components has decided to offer ex-stock delivery of production-ready part reels on its most popular capacitors, discretes and connectors.

The distributor found a number of its UK customers asking for the option of splitting the reels components are supplied in from the manufacturer. Typically a reel will contain as many as 5,000 parts.

MSC Vertriebs has opened a sales office in San Francisco and the main focus will be its embedded computer technologies.

Building its US sales operation is part of a medium-term plan for the Germany-based distributor to have a sales split of about one third each generated in Europe, Asia and the US.

Acal BFi has added miniature GPS antenna modules to its linecard with the signing of OriginGPS.

Anglia Components has changed ownership with company CEO Steve Rawlins signing agreement with Bill Ingram, the president and majority shareholder, to buy all the distributor's shares.

The power discrete and module market is forecast to grow by $10bn to reach $25.5bn in 2015, according to a report from IMS Research.

Future Electronics has redesigned its website and claims to have speeded up search activity.

Gleichmann Electronics has signed a pan-European deal with e-paper displays supplier Pervasive Displays.

And don't think the target market is only consumer devices like e-readers. The plan is to push sunlight readable e-ink displays into industrial systems.

Uninterruptible power supplies are selling again.

After healthy revenue growth of 8.3% last year, after the downturn of 2009, market watcher IMS Research is predicting further good growth this year.

Mouser Electronics continues to expand its European business by adding two more customer service centres in Stockholm, Sweden and Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Avnet Technology Solutions has named Henry Godwin as regional director for the Middle East and Africa.

Could China be losing its foothold as the world's lowest cost manufacturer of consumer goods?

Increasing labour costs are forcing companies to take a closer look at new sourcing locations across Asia, according to a new report from KPMG International.

RS Components has announced substantial price reductions on more than 18,000 products.

Online distribution website element14 has been investigating the technical information needs and motivational drivers of designers around the world.

It found that engineers spend about half of their research time online.

Modernising the world's electrical grids with smart meter technolgy is continuing apace, with the biggest meter deployments in China where new In-Stat research forecasts that the deployment of smart meters will reach 280 million by 2016.

China is the biggest smart meter consumer.

Luso Electronics Distribution has signed a third franchise, California-based N2Power which supplies open-frame switching power supplies.

RS Components has created a website portal aimed at design engineers and students looking to select and buy connector and interfacing components and equipment.

Mouser Electronics has taken on line of development systems and compilers from PIC specialist MikroElektronika, and the big target market is North America.

Solid State Supplies has signed a UK and Ireland franchise with Quectel Wireless Solutions, a Chinese manufacturer of wireless communications modules for M2M applications.

The Technology Strategy Board has released data collected from a UK-wide demonstrator programme involving 340 ultra-low carbon vehicles. 

The findings collected from on-board computers and face-to-face surveys indicate that the challenge of switching to an ultra low carbon vehicle may not be as lareg as expected.

Drivers even get completely adjusted to the change after just one week.

Distributor Astute Electronics has focused on the defence sector and its strong supply links with manufacturer Thales, in particular, has impressed supplier Datel.

TDK-Lambda has its eye on the Irish power supply market and it has signed local distributor Futura Electronics.

An interesting seminar looking at how to improve product and packaging security to combat IP theft in the supply chain is taking place at BIS Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1 on Wednesday 14th September.