Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH has broken ground on a new storage and logistics centre to support future growth. The new storage and logistics centre expands the existing warehouse in Eisingen close to Rutronik’s headquarters in Ispringen near Pforzheim. It adds 9,000 square metres of floor space, giving Rutronik more than twice as much space…
It’s 2050 and a new generation of Chinese leaders are tackling the country’s terrible pollution problems. Major cities are cloaked in a heavy unbreathable haze, citizens are gagging on the streets, rivers and ground water have heavy contamination of PCB and other hazardous pollutants and surging health care costs are chewing up personal and national…
A U.S. court in Massachusetts has approved an agreement for AVX Corp. to pay about $366.3 million for the cleanup of a harbor in the state, moving forward a deal that was initially struck between the capacitor supplier and a group of regulators in 2012. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts…
There are numerous challenges ahead for interconnects, passives and electromechanical (IPE) components manufacturers, component distributors and equipment makers. Commoditization – the rapid erosion of pricing and profit margins – isn’t a problem for just suppliers. It poses a challenge for distributors and, in the longer run, OEMs too; what they gain in lower pricing for…
Every purchasing person knows that from time to time some suppliers are not going to be able to help with either emergency shortages or alternate source component research and subsequent supply. When this is the case, things around the factory start to heat up and depending upon the urgency of the requirement, the company firefighters…
3M Co.’s greatest strength can often also seem like its Achilles heel. Few technology companies have quite as diversified a product portfolio, which means declines in some business segments can be offset by solid growth in other sectors but the opposite can also happen – as it did in 2012 when 3M’s revenue grew a…
Many electronic OEMs don’t buy standard off-the-shelf enclosures, but they don’t have to go the custom route, which can be an expensive and time-consuming process.
Premier Farnell today released its first half 2013 highlights: Group H1 sales per day up 0.9% versus prior year. Sales excluding Raspberry Pi declined 1.4% as overall market conditions remain subdued. – Excluding Raspberry Pi, year on year sales growth was stable through the period in our main MDD business as Continental Europe, Asia Pacific and…
As hoped, my last blog spurred some conversation within the distribution industry. I’ve heard from a company that remembers how business was done before the Internet came along. Of course, that conversation was by phone. But we’ll be moving it online shortly. (See: In Distribution, How Much Support is Enough?) The question “How much attention…
KOA Speer Electronics, Inc., of Bradford, PA, was presented with the 2013 Passive Category Supplier of the Year Award during the company’s Annual Supplier Conference. The Supplier of the Year award is an acknowledgement of significant contributions made during the year by suppliers and is based upon quality, delivery, total cost of ownership, lead time…