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ROMMEL GmbH Appoints Etek Europe as Sales Contact
GmbHEtek Europe, a leading supplier of products and services to the European electronics industry are excited to extend their range of manufacturing solutions by bringing another market leaders’ products to their customers and providing ROMMEL customers in the UK access to Etek’s dedicated team of specialists providing outstanding levels of sales, service and support. ROMMEL GmbH specialise in turnkey solutions for the handling of PCBs including the automation of production lines as well as the marking and tracing of diverse products. They also have specialist expertise in the area of laser marking process for the traceability of security relevant parts in the electronics industry. Etek Europe has a dedicated
manufacturing division with a team of experienced service and support engineers who have been trained to the highest standards giving them an unrivalled knowledge of products and applications within the manufacturing industry. For more information, visit
www.etek-europe.com
Industry Veteran Ray Pearce Rejoins ECD
ECD, a leading manufacturer of thermal profi ling equipment and software based in Milwaukie, OR, announces that Ray Pearce, a twenty-seven-year industry veteran, has rejoined the company after several years of participating in other ventures. His current role as Sales Engineer with ECD provides customers with another team member who possesses knowledge and experience with both through-hole and SMT soldering processes, the quality control issues each presents, and the challenge when the two are used in combination. In this current position, Pearce specializes in the quality assurance tools and software required to manage and control these and other heating processes heating applications. In addition, he will be a frequent contributor to the ECD Blog “The Thermosphere” with his “What’s New” series that begins this week. According to Todd Clifton, ECD’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, “Having
Ray on board enhances our ability to address the diversifi ed thermal processing applications and problems of our users. His experience in these various heating processes from the multiple perspectives of sales, training, and test, gives him an advantage we plan on using to the fullest. Customers appreciate having a specialist who can solve issues outside the ordinary realm of average daily use. When we get a call like that, we now have three qualifi ed people on our sales and engineering staff who can help. That will allow us to keep our superior customer service rating, serving our customers with the skill levels they want and need. We’re very pleased to have Ray back in the ECD family.” Ray studied Engineering and Communications at the University of
Washington, and as one of the ECD Sales Engineers, is based at ECD Headquarters in Milwaukie, OR. He can be reached at
ray.pearce@
ecd.com
Molex connectors now available in South Africa through TTI, Inc.
TTI, Inc., the global distributor of Passive, Interconnect, Relay & Switch and Discrete components, today announced that it has extended its long-running franchise distribution agreement with leading connector manufacturer, Molex, to include South Africa. Commented Jamie Furness, TTI’s General Manager for
the region: “There are signifi cant opportunities in South Africa for Molex’s industrial connector range, especially in markets such as alternative energy, LED lighting, metering, security and power. TTI stocks a wide portfolio of Molex’s innovative, reliable and competitively-priced connector solutions and offers technical design-in support through a local South African offi ce in Johannesburg.” The relationship between TTI and Molex is long and
successful, also covering the USA, Europe and Asia. Recently TTI honoured Molex with a Gold Award for Supplier
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Excellence in recognition of world class performance across a number of tightly measured parameters. Commented Nigel Ballard, UK Sales Manager, Molex: “TTI and Molex have an exceptional working partnership in other countries and regions across the globe ensuring growth for both our businesses. This has been achieved by being able to give the right service level to our customers and our combined design-in expertise and NPI programs have also been key to our previous success.” Added Furness: “We aim to offer our customers in South
Africa the same level of focused service and support and we are sure that we can deliver Molex’s new products and technologies to the design community here in South Africa so that they can differentiate their products in what is becoming an increasingly competitive market.”
www.electronicscomponentworld.com /
www.electronicproductionworld.com September 2011
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