Digi-Key Corporation and Elna America, Inc. Pen Global Distribution Agreement.THIEF RIVER The Thief River is a tributary of the Red Lake River in northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Red Lake River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay. FALLS, Minn. & CYPRESS, Calif. -- Digi-Key Corporation, one of the world's fastest growing distributors of electronic components, and Elna America today announced the signing of a global distributor agreement. Elna America is an international leader in the design and manufacture of a wide range of high reliability capacitors, including aluminum electrolytic e·lec·tro·lyt·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to electrolysis. 2. Produced by electrolysis. 3. Of or relating to electrolytes. e·lec , electric double layer and tantalum capacitors A capacitor made out of the precious metal tantalum. The silver-gray tantalum beads, in the form of compacted powder, can store a lot of charge relative to their mass. This enables smaller capacitors to be built, helping to reduce the size of mobile phones. See capacitor. . Owned by Elna Co. Ltd., Elna has manufacturing facilities in Japan, Thailand, China and Malaysia. Elna products will be available for purchase through Digi-Key's print and online catalogs Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. . Product offerings include Elna double layer capacitors (DYNACAP) as well as audio grade, radial leaded and electrolytic capacitors. The DYNACAP series are ideal for backing up CMOS ICs, microcomputers, RAMS and the like used in VCRs, tuners, televisions, telephone sets, DVD players, cameras, personal wireless items and more. The distribution agreement with Elna America will allow Digi-Key to fulfill both the design and production quantity requirements of its far-reaching customer base. "A leader in board level, double-layer technology, Elna America is a substantial enhancement to Digi-Key's line card," said Mark Larson, president and COO at Digi-Key. "We are certain that our customers will find Elna America products of significant interest and appeal." "Digi-Key's outstanding reputation for customer service and support along with Elna's commitment to high quality and product innovation make this agreement great news for our customers," said Kent Sterrett, vice president of sales for Elna America, Inc. "In particular, with the growing high demand for electric double-layer capacitors, our DYNACAP series, our agreement with Digi-Key will give customers a convenient source for these products." About Digi-Key Corporation One of the world's fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key has earned its reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. As a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, Digi-Key has been ranked #1 for Overall Performance for 15 consecutive years from among the nation's more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ May 2006). Offering more than 700,000 parts from over 330 quality name-brand manufacturers Digi-Key's commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company's broad product offering is available 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week at Digi-Key's top-rated Web site at www.digikey.com About Elna America Elna America, Inc. was established in 1977 as a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Elna Co Ltd. Japan. Elna is a worldwide company with sales offices in Singapore, China, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Europe. It specializes in the sales and design of aluminum electrolytic, electric double layer and tantalum tantalum (tăn`tələm) [from Tantalus], metallic chemical element; symbol Ta; at. no. 73; at. wt. 180.9479; m.p. 2,996°C;; b.p. 5,400±100°C;; sp. gr. 16.65 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, +4, or +5. SMD (1) (Storage Module Device) A high-performance hard disk interface used with minis and mainframes that transfers data in the 1-4 MBytes/sec range (SMD-E provides highest rate). See hard disk. capacitors. Plants located in Japan, Thailand, China and Malaysia manufacture Elna's capacitors. All are QS 9000, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 and ISO 14001 certified. For more information, visit www.elna-america.com. |
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