Avnet Adds Resistor Manufacturer, Stackpole Electronics, Inc., to Americas Line Card

Avnet Adds Resistor Manufacturer, Stackpole Electronics, Inc., to Americas Line Card

PHOENIX– Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has added Stackpole Electronics, Inc.’s complete line of resistors to its Americas line card. Stackpole’s entire product line of thick and thin film surface mount resistors, axial leaded and wire-wound resistors, current sense resistors, varistors, inductors, and various power resistors is now available from Avnet Electronics Marketing throughout the Americas and on www.avnetexpress.com.

Click to Tweet: Avnet Electronics Marketing adds Stackpole Electronics, Inc. resistors to Americas line card “Avnet's commitment to providing services that cover the full process of manufacturing has made it successful in every major market segment in our industry,” said Brian McCabe, director of North American sales for Stackpole Electronics, Inc. McCabe adds, “Stackpole is anxious to incorporate its wide product offering, commitment to quality and short lead-times with the full service capabilities that Avnet offers its customers.”

“Stackpole has built a solid reputation for producing components that cannot only meet, but exceed our customers’ resistance needs,” said Steve Boysen, senior vice president, director of interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IP&E) strategic sales, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. “Adding Stackpole to our Americas offering strengthens the breadth of options we can provide to our customers and helps to accelerate their designs to market.”

Stackpole offers one of the broadest resistive product lines in the industry. Not only does it cover all major technologies of commodity resistors, but also offers a wide variety of less common resistors. For example, Stackpole offers a wide range of wire-wound resistors, including a custom-built, wire-wound fuse. Stackpole’s wire-wound products also include a rugged, edge-wound tubular wire-wound (EWT/SWT) resistor series and a surface mount wire-wound (SM) resistor series featuring high temperature molded encapsulation, flex termination for absorbing thermal expansion. Stackpole is also committed to providing solutions for design and application issues in today’s world. The RNCP series offers a low cost solution that eliminates the risk of sulfur contamination and the RNCS series provides an alternative to tantalum nitride resistors that are used in harsh, humid environments.

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