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Product category: Switches and Keyboards
News Release from: Abacus Group
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 January 2008

Distribution switches to new focus

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Abacus Switch aims to provide all customers with a single point of contact for all their switch requirements, including power, signal and multifunction components.

Abacus Switch is a new pan-European switch design resource, supported by more than 30 specialists and by 20 of the world's top manufacturers According to Martin Kingsbury, European Marketing Director of the Abacus distribution businesses: "We've always believed strongly that customers should receive the same outstanding technical support for electromechanical components as for semiconductors"

"Following the acquisition of Deltron in 2006, we have a pan-European organisation capable of delivering that support to customers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Benelux countries".

According to Kingsbury, the objective of forming Abacus Switch is to provide all these customers with a single point of contact for all of their switch requirements, including power, signal and multifunction components.

"Abacus Switch offers a specialist website which allows you to look at newly released products, a virtual sample box and offers the capability to order samples online, as well as a matrix that shows each type of switch that is offered by the manufacturers".

"There are also links to datasheets and the manufacturers' websites, plus local specialists able to work with customers on their switch designs", he adds.

The Abacus Switch portfolio includes all of the major switch styles, as well as an extensive range of specialist and bespoke solutions.

The company offers standard push button, rocker, toggle, slide, tactile, detector and DIP switches, alongside vandal resistant solutions, reed switches, joysticks, membrane switches and trackballs.

The UK Abacus Switch website can be found via the main Abacus Group site.

Lines supporting Abacus Switch at its formation in the UK are Airpax, Alps, Arcolectric, Bourns, Bulgin, C and K, CH Products, Cherry, Cursor Controls, EAO, Eledis, Grayhill, Hamlin, Inetec, ITW Erg, Lorlin, Omron, Panasonic, Schurter and Tyco Electronics.

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