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Portsmouth-based Harwin has presented Avnet Abacus with its annual sales excellence award.   Harwin was particularly impressed by the sales growth that the distributor has achieved in all key European markets, across products ranging from its high reliability connectors to PCB hardware.  “The distributor has managed to realise a 70% year-on-year increase in sales revenue, said Harwin. Gavin Darling, head of sales ...

Arrow Electronics will now supply the DH electronics range of embedded modules.  These are scalable and customisable embedded systems which Arrow will offer throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The DH electronics range comprises three main product families: DHSOM system-on-modules (SOM), which are compact embedded computers that can be plugged in or soldered to carrier boards; DHMI touch panel ...

Farnell element14 is stocking products from the Microchip 8-bit PIC and AVR ranges of MCUs. The latest additions to the PIC/AVR range include: The megaAVR 0-series: The ATmega3208/3209/4808/4809 microcontrollers broaden the effectiveness of real-time control systems with a combination of intelligent hardware peripherals alongside the low-power architecture of the 8-bit AVR processor.  PIC18 64-Pin Controllers: The PIC18(L)F65/66K40 microcontrollers combine large ...

Anglia has added LG OLED to its OLED light lighting product lines. The line includes Luflex LG OLED light panels which are designed to emit just 10% of the amount of blue light emitted by LED light with the same colour temperature and luminance.  The panels are ultra-thin (0.51mm for flexible, 0.91mm for rigid) and light-weight (20g for 100x100mm rigid), ...

Future Electronics has added to its customer-facing operations in Europe with the appointment of a number of executives to senior sales roles. The appointments in central Europe, Italy and Russia mark a new phase in Future market plans. The new appointments include the recruitment of Bernd Pfeil to be vice-president of sales for the Central Europe region, covering the D/A/CH ...

Arrow Electronics is now carrying the GaN Systems range of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  Designed for high efficiency power design the transistors are likely to be used in renewable energy to industrial motor drives. The range includes both 100V and 650V transistor product families. Matthias Hutter, vice president of product management and supplier ...

Avnet Silica has a Distributor of the Year award from Nordic Semiconductor, the low power wireless communication chipset supplier. “Nordic Semiconductor is a leader in ultra-low-power short-range wireless communications and especially Bluetooth low energy and Bluetooth 5, which are important technologies in many industrial market applications and new designs,” said Laurence Dellicott, director supplier management of Avnet Silica.  Nordic was ...

Acal BFi has added the high-voltage lines of Advanced Energy to its power product offering. This follows Advanced Energy’s (AE) acquisition of Excelsys and Trek, both product lines carried by Acal BFi. AE also owns the Hitek Power manufacturing site in West Sussex and its products include the UltraVolt and HiTek Power product lines which cover a wide operating range ...

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with connector supplier Samtec.  The distributor will stock the full line of Samtec products, including high-speed board-to-board, connectors, cables, and optics. Ashley Quinlan, strategic marketing director at Samtec, writes:  “Mouser recognises that Samtec is a different type of supplier when it comes to offering bleeding edge technology with incredibly short lead times ...

Transparent displays with touch capabilities from Lumineq are available from RDS. Enabled by atomic layer deposition (ALD) these displays from Lumineq can be used in applications where fully transparent properties are required. The solid-state glass panel consists of a luminescent phosphorous layer sandwiched between transparent dielectric layers and conductive ITO electrodes. By applying voltage to the electrodes, a pixel/segment is ...