ATLANTA – ECIA has announced the Distinguished Service Award recipients, to honor six individuals who have worked tirelessly in various roles within the ECIA during 2022:

• Tom Wichert, TDK-Lambda Americas - Tom completed six years of service to the EDS board, serves on the ECIA Manufacturer Council and Executive Conference Committee.
• Mike Swenson, Mel Foster - Mike is highly involved in the ECIA Rep Council, is a Council project team leader, is a contributor in the TAMU study, and involved on the EDS Board.
• Teri Ivaniszyn, Digi-Key Electronics - Teri has been a strong contributor to the GIPC for many years and is a past Chairperson. Teri has worked in areas such as China Tariffs, Managing COVID in the day-to-day business operation, International Trade Compliance, Environmental Compliance and Quality and more.
• Thomas Griffin, Catalyst Unity Solutions - Tom is a strong contributor to the ECIA Rep Council, was formerly on the GIPC and is a new addition to the EDS Board.
• James Kaplan, Cornell Dubilier Electronics, Inc. - Jim is Foundation President, has been driving the PACE (Paul Andrews Continued Education) initiative and collected over $450K in donations to fund PACE!
• Mark Conley, O’Donnell Associates - Mark has been an outstanding contributor to the ECIA Rep Council and was Executive Conference Committee Chair for TWO LONG years during Covid. While he didn’t get to see his hard work come to fruition, what he and the committee accomplished was foundational to the success of the 2022 Executive Conference.

“We are very grateful to these individuals, without whom the important goals and initiatives of all the Councils and Committees would never be achieved,” commented David Loftus, ECIA President and CEO. “ECIA continues to work on resolving the challenges and inefficiencies in the authorized channel. Leaders such as these award recipients help drive our success.”

HELSINKI — Greg Grace will leave his position as Incap’s Director of Operations Estonia and Managing Director of Incap Estonia. The recruitment process for a new Director of Operations Estonia and Managing Director of Incap Estonia will begin immediately. Margus Jakobson, Member of the Incap Estonia Management Team responsible for QHSE, is appointed as interim Managing Director of Incap Estonia with immediate effect.

“I thank Greg Grace for his time in Incap and his contribution to the Estonian team’s work,” says Otto Pukk, President and CEO of Incap Corporation.

The members of Incap Group’s Management Team are currently Otto Pukk, President and CEO; Murthy Munipalli, Director of Operations India and Sales APAC; Jamie Maughan, Director of Operations UK; Miroslav Michalik, Director of Operations Slovakia and Antti Pynnönen, CFO.

DALLAS — CalcuQuote, a supply chain solution partner for the electronics industry, is pleased to announce an integration with EVE GmbH, a trusted source for electronic components and cable manufacturing.

“We’re happy to work with EVE GmbH,” says CalcuQuote CEO, Chintan Sutaria. “Through this integration, CalcuQuote customers will have better access to meet their various conductor and cable needs. This is especially exciting for CQ customers within the German market.”

"The integration with CalcuQuote helps us to connect to our customers in our home market and creates greater visibility of our company in Europe and overseas" says Hendrik Werning, Sales Manager for EVE GmbH.

EVE has been a distributor of electronic components for 36 years and counting. Specializing in offering individual concepts for businesses across the electronics industry, EVE provides cost-effective solutions for more than 7,000 customers.

CalcuQuote works with more than 200 electronics companies to solve complex problems with industry-leading solutions. EVE GmbH’s integration with CalcuQuote solutions allows for additional sourcing resources for both CQ as well as EVE GmbH customers alike. To learn more about CalcuQuote, visit www.calcuquote.com.

WASHINGTON, MO ― SASinno Americas is pleased to announce its new demonstration center in Washington. The facility houses an Ant-i1 offline selective soldering machine and SELMATE-4 N2 generator for demonstrations. The center is focused on through- hole soldering technology, including selective and wave soldering.

“As a selective soldering machine manufacturer driven by innovation, this is a very important step in the North American market for SASinno Americas,” stated Leo Peng, CEO. “It will play a critical role for market development, technical support, training, service and parts support etc. North American customers can get demos and support locally, and talk with soldering gurus. Meanwhile in the long-term, it will enable us to work closer with local customers and develop more interesting features and machines for this market.”

The Ant-i1 includes a drop jet fluxer, a bottom preheating zone and optional top preheating zone, and solder pot with 15 kg capacity. It can handle boards up to 350mm L x 260mm W and manually rotates boards to 180 degrees.

The new facility enables SASinno to provide local service for its partners in the U.S.

For more information about SASInno Americas, visit www.sasinnoamericas.com.