Division rebranded
27 July, 2007Mitsubishi Electric Australia signalled a new direction for its digital electronics business with the announcement that the division will be rebranded as Visual Information Systems (VIS).
Distributor of the year announced
17 July, 2007C&D Technologies has presented its Pan-European Distributor of the Year Award to Farnell.
Ampcontrol expands into the UK and Europe
13 July, 2007Ampcontrol has purchased Allenwest Wallacetown, a UK-based company. Allenwest Wallacetown employs 90 people and operates a modern manufacturing facility just outside Glasgow, Scotland.
Solid State Flash Disk Capacity Increases
09 July, 2007Adtron Corporation announces availability of its most advanced generation of the Adtron Flashpak family of products including the IDE and Serial ATA (SATA) flash disk models, the I25FB and A25FB, respectively. The products in this announcement include the industry's highest capacity 2.5" SLC NAND flash disk drives at 160 GBytes, only available from Adtron.
Richardson Electronics RFM distribution agreement expanded
28 June, 2007Richardson Electronics has expanded its product distribution agreement with RF Monolithics to include products from RFM's subsidiary Cirronet, Inc.
New distributor
27 June, 2007Cluso Vision Systems Pty Ltd from Sydney, Australia and OHT Inc from Fukuyama, Japan, have entered into a distribution and technical cooperation agreement.
Scientists create fire-safe ‘green’ plastic
26 June, 2007A synthetic polymer that doesn’t burn has been created by scientists from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.
Australia and New Zealand partnership agreement
26 June, 2007Soanar and OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have announced a partnership agreement covering Australia and New Zealand. This agreement involves the distribution of all OSRAM Opto Semiconductor products.
Appointment
25 June, 2007Unicom Pty Ltd has been appointed the distributor for Raytheaon JPS Communications.
Endress+Hauser moves to new Melbourne office
15 June, 2007Endress+Hauser has moved to a new office in the Omnico Business Centre in Notting Hill, providing it with a platform from which to service a growing Victorian client base.
Move towards consolidation
14 June, 2007The national president of the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), Trevor Carroll and the president of the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA), Ken Bridges have announced moves towards the consolidation of the two associations.
Wear your electronics
12 June, 2007 by Elizabeth Latham, JournalistAn electronic revolution could be on the way with the development of a thin film of plastic that conducts electricity and produces solar power, changing the way we light our homes and design clothes
Researchers work towards enhancing the smallest electronic components
12 June, 2007Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of spintronics that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster computers, sensors and other devices
Innovation, processing performance and cooperation key to moving forward faster
08 June, 2007At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Intel Corporation executives detailed more than 20 new products, technology innovations and industry initiatives aimed at making the internet, computers and consumer electronics devices much more responsive, friendlier and secure.
Pan-Asian distributor announced
06 June, 2007Analog Devices has named Avnet Electronics Marketing as its first pan-Asian distributor. The distribution agreement extends the existing arrangements, which already include China and India, to cover the Asia-Pacific region.