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New Distribution Agreements for Equipment, Materials, and More
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Suppliers are adding distributors from New England to Shenzhen. Check out this list of new and expanded distributor agreements for the most up-to-date supply chain information from Data I/O, A.C.E., Balver Zinn, Nextreme, IMS, Essemtec, Koh Young, and more.
Balver Zinn Group appointed ARK Manufacturing Solutions as manufacturer's representative for the Balver Zinn and Cobar brands in the southwestern American territory of Arizona; New Mexico; and Sanora, Mexico. www.arkmfgsolutions.com. Balver Zinn named Kirby & Demarest as manufacturer's representative for the Balver Zinn and Cobar brands in the northern American regions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia in Canada. www.kirbydemarest.com. Balver Zinn named LAPA Enterprises as rep for North California and Northern Nevada. www.lapaent.com. The distributors will sell Balver Zinn's solder paste, solder wires, solder bars, and flux products, as well as their cleaning products. www.cobar.com and www.balverzinn.com.
Microscreen added two representatives in the U.S. Chalman Technologies will be responsible for sales and service of screens for printing photovoltaic devices in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. www.cti-rep.com. Creyr Innovation LLC will be responsible for the sales and service of screens for printing photovoltaic devices in New England and New York. www.creyr.net. Both sales organizations are full-service technical manufacturers representatives that also represents MicroScreen's stencils and thick film screens. www.microscreen.org.
Data I/O Corporation signed a distribution agreement with Le Champ Pte Ltd. Headquartered in Singapore with offices and customers across South and Southeast Asia, Le Champ will represent Data I/O in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. www.le-champ.com. Data I/O also named Process Automation & Tool LLC to represent Data I/O in the Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi markets. Process Automation & Tool is headquartered in Canton, GA. Headquartered in Waban, MA, Matthew Associates will represent Data I/O in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. www.mathewassociates.com. West Tech will represent Data I/O in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. West Tech is headquartered in Littleton, CO. Kurt Whitlock Associates Inc. will represent Data I/O in the Florida electronics market. Kurt Whitlock Associates is located in St. Cloud, FL, www.kurtwhitlock.com. The company also completed a sales representative agreement with Kirby & Demarest to represent Data I/O in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Kirby & Demarest has offices in Portland, OR and La Conner, WA, www.kirbydemarest.com. The distributors will sell Data I/O's manual and automated device programming solutions. www.dataio.com.
Aqueous Technologies Corp. appointed 3S Technologies as its distributor for Turkey. Aqueous also expanded the responsibilities of European distribution partner, Etek Europe Ltd., to cover the U.K. www.etek-europe.com. The cleaning system maker also appointed NamA Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. as its new distribution partner in Korea. Aqueous also announced Cyncrona as its new distributor for Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Baltics. www.aqueoustech.com.
ACE Production Technologies Inc. selected Etek-Europe Ltd. to represent its products in Eastern Europe, specifically Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. Etek-Europe will be the exclusive sales, service, installation, and ongoing support distributor for ACE's selective soldering systems in these territories. www.etek-europe.com. www.ace-protech.com.
Nextreme Thermal Solutions signed Nucletron Technologies GmbH to distribute Nextreme's thin-film thermoelectric products in Europe. The distribution agreement opens up Nextreme's first sales and marketing channel in Europe for its microscale thermal and power management products. Nucletron Technologies GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nucletron Electronic AG. www.nextreme.com and www.nucletron.de.
NBS appointed Norcomp Inc., based in Sunnyvale, CA, to provide sales coverage for NBS's services throughout Northern California. www.norcomp.com and www.nbscorp.com.
Valor Computerized Systems Inc. appointed Hitech Eletronica as its exclusive representative in Brazil. Hitech will represent Valor's software solutions and is headquartered in São Paulo. www.hitech.com and www.valor.com.
Milara Inc. chose distributor NEXRAY PTE Ltd. to cover Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam. NEXRAY currently has five offices and three service centers around the Asian countries. The company will sell Milara's stencil printers for SMT and wafer applications. www.nexray.biz and www.milarasmt.com .
MIRTEC Europe appointed pb tec as distributor in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The distributor will be responsible for the sales and support of the entire line of Mirtec desktop and in-line AOI systems. www.mirteceurope.com and www.pbt.de or www.pbt-europe.com.
Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM) signed Rudolph Bros's. & Co. in Ohio to distribute ZPM's Epovex and Arovex carbon nanotube strengthened epoxies and prepregs. www.rudolphbros.com and www.zyvexpro.com.
Essemtec Switzerland added PMTech Ltd., in Essex as a distributor for the U.K. www.pmtech.co.uk and www.essemtec.com.
Applied Robotics Inc. signed Innovation Matrix Inc., as a distributor and system integrator of automated tooling for Japan and Taiwan. www.innovation-matrix.com and www.appliedrobotics.com.
DEK signed Southern Europe distribution specialist Prodelec to exclusively handle DEK screen printing and mass imaging platform products and support in Italy. www.dek.com and www.prodelecgroup.com.
PROMATION Inc. selected Tonka Electronics as its authorized sales representative. Tonka Electronics will provide professional consultative services in the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and select counties within Northern Wisconsin. www.pro-mation-inc.com.
International Manufacturing Services, Inc. (IMS) appointed Joe Ruvolo of K&R Engineering as its Northern New Jersey sales representative. Ruvolo will distribute IMS's thick film resistors, terminations, attenuators, thermal management products, planar dividers and planar filters. joe@kreng.com and www.ims-resistors.com.