Our Sponsors

WIE CORPORATE SPONSORS

WIE sincerely thanks their corporate sponsors for their loyalty and continued support. We can't do it without you!

Listed below are the 2007 WIE Corporate Sponsors. Click on the sponsor name to find out more information about the company and link to their web site!

EnVision L.L.C. is a Manufacturers Representative firm specializing in the sale of Semiconductors. EnVision covers the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

For more information, please visit our web site at www.envisionllc.com or call 919-834-0505.

ERA Carolinas Chapter
The Carolinas Chapter of the Electronics Representatives Association is the local arm of the national trade association for Manufacturer’s Representatives. The mission of the ERA is to promote, protect, and improve the Manufacturer’s Representative function. The Carolinas Chapter is the connecting point for Reps in our region to tap the resources of the national association. The ERA provides publications and educational programs, line acquisition assistance, group insurance, mass purchasing programs, and business operational aids.

The Carolinas Chapter, through its chapter meetings, special programs, and services tailored to the local marketplace, seeks to augment the support offered through the national organization. The Chapter brings together local Rep professionals and together we work to enhance the skills of our members in order to increase the service and value Manufacturer’s Reps bring to the market.

General Microcircuits, Inc.
General Microcircuits, Inc. (GMI), located in Mooresville, NC, is a regional leader in contract manufacturing services for the printed circuit assembly market. Formed in 1980 and acquired by Microsemi in 1988, GMI has introduced several Fortune 500 companies to surface mount technology and provided the entrepreneurial market with affordable and experienced manufacturing services.

GMI was recently granted ISO9002 registration from Underwriters Laboratories. The scope of the registration is as follows: "The manufacture of surface mount and through-hole printed circuit board assemblies." GMI provides electronics manufacturing services to the industrial controls, medical, automotive, and data acquisition markets.

Kemet Electronics
Kemet Corporation is the largest manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors in the world and the second largest manufacturer of ceramic capacitors in the United States. The company is dedicated solely to the manufacture and sale of solid tantalum and multilayer ceramic capacitors, headquartered in the United States and employing more than 13,000 people worldwide. KEMET has multiple manufacturing sites in Mexico and the USA, with distribution centers in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Our vision is to establish a distinctive competence that differentiates KEMET as the unquestioned Best-In-Class supplier.

Our core values include the Best Trained and Motivated People. KEMET is committed to creating a culture that fosters growth, satisfaction, and empowerment for all employees. This includes employee involvement, teamwork, quality education and training, employee recognition, and employee well-being and morale. KEMET provides opportunities for personal and professional growth, thus enabling us as a company to advance toward out business and quality goals.

Another core value is our Company-Wide Quality Concept. KEMET is a leader in an industry where customers require high quality standards and exacting product specifications. The “Company-Wide Quality Concept” is an integrated approach which guides KEMET toward achieving continuous improvement through the Company—every functional group, every department, every individual has a vital role to play to ensure that our quality is second to none.

Solectron Technology, Inc.
Solectron Technology was founded in 1977. Solectron provides integrated solutions across the entire product life cycle-from design to manufacturing to end-of-life services-for the world’s leading electronics OEMs. Solectron offers its customers competitive outsourcing advantages such as access to advanced manufacturing technologies, shortened product time-to-market, reduced cost of production and more effective asset utilization.

The Company has received more than 200 quality and service awards from its customers in addition to the 1997 and 1991 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards. Solectron is the first company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award as a corporation twice in the 10-year history of the national program. The Company has more than 31,000 associates in 25 manufacturing facilities worldwide with five and a half million square feet of manufacturing capacity. Revenues for fiscal year ending August 31, 1998 were $5.3 billion.

Solectron Technology, Inc. in Charlotte was founded in 1992 by acquiring a portion of IBM’s PCBA operations. Operations were expanded in May 1998 with the acquisition of IBM’s ECAT facility. Additional expansion in 1999 increased total operational space to 800,000 square feet.

The Charlotte facility is ISO 9001 registered with BSI QA, is a recipient of the Baldrige based 1996 North Carolina Quality Leadership Award, and was integral in the Solectron corporate 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Solectron Charlotte’s process improvement teams have won 1997 and 1998 regional and state Team Showcase awards and in 1999 one of the teams won the Association for Quality and Participation (AQP) National Team Showcase awarded in Las Vegas, Nevada. Solectron Charlotte has been recognized by customers and the community for their quality of customer service and diverse community support activities.

SACS IS A MANUFACTURER'S REP COVERING NC, SC, GA, TN, AL, MS, & FL

SERVING THE COMPUTER, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INDUSTRIAL, CONSUMER, AND MILITARY/AEROSPACE OEM MARKETS DIRECT AND THROUGH DISTRIBUTION.

For more information, please visit our web site at: www.sacs-rep.com .

State Industrial Solutions.
Located in Charlotte, NC, State Industrial Solutions is a leading supplier of fasteners and electronic hardware, including die-cut and made to order parts. As a local vendor with a global reach, we support both military and commercial applications on a production basis. Our trained technicians are certified to J-STD 001 solder specifications and our quality personnel are certified to IPC-610 standards.

The above offerings represent much of our ongoing efforts, however, our practice has been to respond to most customer inquiries that we can support with our capabilities and willingly look for new applications. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have a requirement. We would like to be the solution to your problem.

SIS                                                                  Tel. 704-597-0536
6801 Northpark Blvd.                                    Fax 704-597-0122
Suite A
Charlotte, NC 28216
Or contact:            Bruce Garren at bgarren@sisnc.com
                               Andy Hansen at ahansen@sisnc.com

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