Avnet Electronics Marketing Adds Airpax Power Protection Products to Line Card; Avnet's Technical Resources and Proven Track Record Cited as Critical Differentiator.PHOENIX -- Avnet Electronics Marketing announces an agreement with Airpax Corp. to distribute the company's Power Protection and Thermal Sensing Products in the Americas region. Founded in 1947, Airpax is a global supplier of over-current protection and thermal sensing components. "The addition of Airpax products to the Avnet Electronics Marketing line card will enhance our customers' array of choices in a variety of systems in the telecommunications, industrial equipment, railway, power conditioning, HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free , vehicular and information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. markets," noted Pat Wastal, senior vice president of Avnet's interconnect, passive, and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). (IP&E) product group. "Airpax enjoys a market leadership position in the design and manufacturing of magnetic circuit breakers Circuit breakers Measures instituted by exchanges to stop trading temporarily when the market has fallen by a certain percentage in a specified period. They are intended to prevent a market free fall by permitting buy and sell orders to rebalance. for equipment and PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. thermostats and we are pleased to offer these products." "We are very pleased to partner with Avnet Electronics Marketing to bring our products to a broad customer base," added Don Pruitt, Airpax Power Protection Products director of sales and marketing. "Avnet's innovative supply chain programs and services, as well as their specialized technical expertise in IP&E products will give our mutual customers significant advantages in designing around these critical application areas." Airpax Corp. comprises two subsidiaries. Power Protection Products, based in Cambridge, Md., designs, manufactures, markets and sells magnetic circuit breakers and related products for telecommunications, industrial, power conditioning, HVAC, marine, military, medical and information processing applications. The other, Thermal Sensing Products, located in Frederick, Md., manufactures, markets and sells thermal sensing products for telecommunications, information processing and office equipment, electronic power supply, power generation, heavy vehicular, and climate control applications. About Avnet Electronics Marketing Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2004 sales of more than $10 billion, and one of the world's largest technology marketing, distribution and services companies. Avnet Electronics Marketing, Americas (EMA (1) (Enterprise Management Architecture) An earlier strategic plan from Digital for integrating network, system and application management. It provided the operating environment for managing a multi-vendor network. ) serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in North America and Brazil, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated services. The company's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com. |
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