Merger announced
30 August, 2007
Startronics has merged with Sanmina’s Australian operations. Startronics is owned by Pacific Equity Partners and Allen Capital Private Equity and is a leader in electronics manufacturing in Australia. Sanmina is a global electronics manufacturer listed on NASDAQ.
Thin film TEG harvests and converts waste heat into electricity
22 August, 2007
Nextreme has developed a miniature, thin film thermoelectric generator (TEG) that converts heat directly into electricity.
USA-based distributor opens in Sydney
06 August, 2007
Newark, distributor of electronic components in America, has announced the launch of its operation based in Sydney, Australia.
New particle charges cuprate superconductor theory
02 August, 2007
New fundamental particles aren't found only in particle accelerators, but can also be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, according to scientists at the University of Illinois in the US.
Chemists close in on molecular switch
31 July, 2007
The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules.
Division rebranded
27 July, 2007
Mitsubishi 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).
Successful collaboration
23 July, 2007
Universal Display Corporation and LG.Philips LCD have developed a flexible, full-colour, active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display.
Distributor of the year announced
17 July, 2007
C&D Technologies has presented its Pan-European Distributor of the Year Award to Farnell.
Ampcontrol expands into the UK and Europe
13 July, 2007
Ampcontrol 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, 2007 | Supplied by: AJ Distributors
Adtron 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, 2007
Richardson Electronics has expanded its product distribution agreement with RF Monolithics to include products from RFM's subsidiary Cirronet, Inc.
New distributor
27 June, 2007
Cluso Vision Systems Pty Ltd from Sydney, Australia and OHT Inc from Fukuyama, Japan, have entered into a distribution and technical cooperation agreement.
Australia and New Zealand partnership agreement
26 June, 2007
Soanar 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.
Scientists create fire-safe ‘green’ plastic
26 June, 2007
A synthetic polymer that doesn’t burn has been created by scientists from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.
Appointment
25 June, 2007
Unicom Pty Ltd has been appointed the distributor for Raytheaon JPS Communications.
