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  Andrew Lacey is to fill the newly-created COO position at Integrated Graphene, a company built around a carbon-based electro-active material it brands ‘Gii’. “Andrew will be responsible for developing Integrated Graphene’s global manufacturing capabilities, enabling commercial quantity international selling of Gii into North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions,” according to the company. A chartered engineer by ...

Allegro MicroSystems has established a research and development centre in the Czech Republic. It currently has two dozen engineers and will work on ICs for automotive and industrial markets – initially focussing on sensor ICs for electrified vehicles, green energy, and industrial motors. “We are very excited to formally open our new R&D centre in Prague.  We were fortunate to ...

Avnet has made another move to expand its European business and has agreed  to acquire MSC Group, the Germany-based distributor selling chips, embedded computing boards and display systems. According to Patrick Zammit, president of Electronics Marketing EMEA, the MSC portfolio “improves our offerings in microcontrollers, memory, programmable logic, opto and LED products”. “The embedded computing and display solutions businesses enhance ...

Distributors’ share of the components market is as large as it has been at any time for as long as we can remember. The 2001 downturn in the electronics market took its toll in the distribution market, but one positive outcome has been an increase in distribution’s share of the total market. With market growth predicted, the passives and electromechanical ...