By selling laser systems for stencil production, LPKF has reduced market share of chemical etching from 100 percent to less than 30 percent. The installation of several hundred PCB prototyping systems has also made a considerable contribution for the reduction of environmental pollution by providing an alternative to the use of chemicals.
* The Phoenix Company of Chicago announced the company's quality management system is certified compliant with the requirements of the AS9100:B quality standard for designers and manufacturers of aerospace products and services. The Phoenix Company of Chicago was also re-certified for the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard. With this re-certification, Phoenix ensures quality management throughout all avenues of its business operations is met or exceeded. Both certifications signify the company's commitment to providing products and services with attention to quality, safety and customer satisfaction.
* Endicott Interconnect Technologies Inc. (EI) has been awarded certification to the AS9100 Quality Management Standard for aerospace suppliers. This certification signifies that its Endicott, NY facility complies with all requirements of the AS9100 quality management system covering quality assurance in design, development, production, installation and servicing, as well as purchasing, validation and shipping. The standard includes all ISO 9001:2000 requirements and has been expanded to address needs specific to the international aerospace industry.
* Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, has been issued US Patent No. 7,455,542 for a miniature BNC connector. Marketed by Emerson as the Trompeter 250 series, this innovation offers designers of high reliability network equipment and the end-users of this equipment the advantage of a 40 percent gain in connector density. The new carrier-class UPL250 series (M-BNC) was originally designed to address specific challenges evolving in telco central office space, where the telco-grade BNC is the well-established workhorse connector.
* Murata Electronics North America, a world-leading innovator in electronics and the largest global supplier of ceramic passive components, announced that it has selected Digi-Key to receive the company's Corporate Award for 2007. Digi-Key was selected out of Murata's distributors worldwide for extraordinary sales expansion and its overall contribution to the company.
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