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Technica USA, TFE Canada to Promote Elite Materials Company Ltd. Laminate Materials
January 19, 2021 | Technica USAEstimated reading time: 1 minute

On January 19, 2021, Technica USA, located in San Jose, California, announced they had reached an agreement at the end of 2020 with TFE to act as a sales representative of EMC products in Eastern Canada. The cooperation includes stocking of EMC materials in their Toronto, Ontario facility.
Frank Medina, president of Technica USA stated, “We are very pleased to have established this relationship with TFE. Their representation of the EMC products will expand our sales and support effort with experienced sales people. In addition, utilizing the TFE facility for stocking inventory will allow us to better service customers in this territory and will be backed by our other value add facilities located in Santa Ana and San Jose CA and the TCS valued add center located in Plymouth, MN.”
Jeff Brandman, president of TFE remarked, “Our focus is to bring technology leading products from around the world directly to our customers. It’s a complete honour to grow our supplier network with the representation of EMC. The TFE team is thrilled to be working with a global PCB laminate technology leader in collaboration with the Technica USA team.”
Medina continued, “EMC has released a group of advanced products over the last couple of years that have quickly become recognized as “Best in Class” for signal integrity and thermal performance. Our cooperation with TFE will enable us to present the features and advantages of these leading-edge products to a broader customer base.”
About Technica USA
Celebrating 35 years, Technica USA provides the highest quality equipment and process materials, manufactured worldwide, for the printed circuit board fabrication and SMT assembly markets. For more information on Technica, USA, please contact us 408-240-5950 or visit our web site at www.technica.com.
About TFE
TFE distributes printed circuit fabrication capital equipment from the best manufacturers in the world. TFE provides a full range of consumable materials for printed circuit board manufacturing. TFE has provided high quality products and services to the printed circuit board manufacturing industry for over 25 years and counting. For more information go to www.tfriedl.com or contact us at 416-321-0770
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