NEWS IN BRIEF
Pridmore redesigns website
Pridmore Corp.,Melbourne, Fla., has re-launched its website with several new features to make it easier to search for and buy components. The redesigned website now includes dynamic result filtering, parts comparison, and a shopping cart with a quick check-out. "Take the tour" at
www.pridmore.com/Tour_Promo .html for a complete list of all new features.
distributor of electronic components. The distributor features Altech and CBI circuit breakers in stock at its new website.
www.pridmore.com
Esterline in talks to acquire Souriau Esterline Corp., a specialty manufacturer serving aerospace and defensemarkets, has entered into exclusive negotiationswith Sagard Private Equity Partners and other shareholders to acquire the Souriau Group, a supplier of highly-engineered connectors for harsh environments based in Versailles, France.
Bellevue,Wash.,will pay about $715million to acquire all the outstanding stock of Souriau. Completion of the transaction is expected in July 2011.
www.esterline.com
ARCOstocks Bellnix FPGA POL converter ARCO Inc., a franchised distributor ofmemory, optoelectronic and other active and passive components, now stocks the small form-factor BSV- nano FPGA POL converter from Bellnix America Inc., a subsidiary of Bellnix Co. Ltd. in Japan.
1.8S4R0NA POL converter to meet the high-speed, low- voltage, and high-current requirements of the latest FPGA designs. The high-speed response performance of the BSV-1.8S4R0NA significantly reduces the need for large value decoupling capacitors to decrease circuit impedances, said theMahwah, N.J.-based distributor.
www.arcoinc.com Bellnix developed the BSV- Esterline, headquartered in Pridmore is a broadline Smart phone growth hurts contractmanufacturers
The recession togetherwith rising sales of smart phoneswill limit the growth of contract manufacturers in the global cell phonemarket, according to IHS iSuppli, El Segundo, Calif. These contractmanufacturers are expected to hold less than a 30 percent share of thewireless handsetmarket over the next four years. Contractmanufacturers, including electronics
manufacturing services (EMS) and original designmanufacturing (ODM) companies, accounted for 25.2 percent of global unit shipments of cell phones in 2009, down from27 percent in 2008, reported IHS iSuppli. IHS projects that the percentage of cell
phones shipped by contractmanufacturers will only reach 28 percent by 2014, up less than three percentage points from2009. Due to lower demand for cell phones in 2009,
some cell phoneOEMs pulled back outsourced production to in-housemanufacturing facilities as away to reduce costs, stated JeffreyWu, senior analyst for EMS andODMat IHS. These companies included the top two cell phonemakersNokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. However, IHS reported that some OEMs such
asMotorola and Sony Ericssonmade greater use of contractmanufacturers, but they "adjusted their product portfolios to reduce
Flextronics,MEMC expand solar panel agreement
Flextronics andMEMC ElectronicMaterials, Inc. have expanded a previous agreement between the contractmanufacturer and MEMC's affiliate,MEMC Singapore, to produce additional solar panels forMEMC's SunEdison subsidiary. TheMEMC-branded solar panels will be used by SunEdison for its solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. Under the previous agreement signed in
December 2010, Flextronics agreed to manufacture solar panels forMEMC fromits Newmarket, Ontario, facility. This new partnership includes the production of solar panels fromFlextronics' Clean Tech Supersite in Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP),Malaysia. Under the expansion, Flextronics expects to build approximately 270megawatts of solar panels annually for SunEdison inMalaysia. "This partnership provides additional
module capacity to support SunEdison's growthworldwide aswework tomeet the growing global demand for solar energy," stated Carlos Domenech, president of SunEdison. "It also allows us to strengthen our relationshipwith Flextronics and build onwhat we are accomplishing together in Canada."
www.flextronics.com www.memc.com www.sunedison.com
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reliance on lower cost, lowermargin phones, themajority of which then were outsourced to the contractmanufacturers." Wu noted thatmanyOEMswant to retain a
measure of in-house design andmanufacturing control over their smart phones, including better control of quality and supply-chain activities. The report also indicated that only a few
contractmanufacturers arewell positioned to accommodate the shift toward smart phones. And the only contractmanufacturer -- ODM HTC -- that could design and build smart phones is focusing exclusively on its own brand.
www.iSuppli.com
Arrow eases order management
ArrowElectronics, Inc. recently introduced an online resource that helpsMyArrowcustomers bettermanage their complete sales cycle. The newOrderManagement tool enables users to viewand download information about online and offline orders for up to 12months. Key features of the newtool include the following: • Search sales history by P.O., customer part number ormanufacturer part number
• Filter views of order history, including all open orders (backlog)
• Download order details to Excel or other text formats
• Viewshipping information, including carrier- tracking details
• Re-order directly froma previous order • Viewand print invoices • Communicate directlywith the Arrowsales team "OrderManagement is the latest of Arrow's online tools designed to simplify the entire order process,whether customers order online or through our sales team," statedMartin Rohde, vice president of eBusiness for ArrowElectronics, Melville, N.Y. "This recent enhancement is part of Arrow's overall strategy to provide complete support to customers, regardless of howthey place their order."
Visitwww.arrownac.com/omfor an online demo.
www.arrow.com
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