JASPER, IN, Dec. 16 -- Kimball Electronics Group today named Steve Korn subsidiary vice president, business development, responsible for new customers.
Korn has spent the last 17 years with Sanmina-SCI, where he has held positions as engineering manager, marketing manager, production manager and vice president and plant manager.
Korn has a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Kimball is a contract electronics manufacturing services company with manufacturing operations located in Indiana, Mexico, Poland and Thailand.
MELVILLE, NY, Dec. 15 -- Components distributor Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. today said it has expanded its agreement with Clare Inc. to cover sales of solid-state relays and high voltage ICs in Asia.
The new deal covers Malaysia, China, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
The companies have an existing pact covering North America distribution.
"Nu Horizons has built a successful demand creation model and stable Asian distribution program, which were the two key factors in expanding our partnership," said Mark Heisig, vice president and general manager of Clare. "We look forward to collaborating to improve our product design capabilities, while broadening our global distribution network."
LAFOX, IL, Dec. 17 -- Richardson Electronics has acquired assets from Evergreen Trading Co. Ltd., a distributor of power components in China.
"Evergreen has been able to realize exponential growth in the Chinese power conversion market through their longstanding relationships with customers in the UPS and industrial markets," said Murray Kennedy, executive vice president and general manager of Richardson's Industrial Power Group, in a statement.
Richardson provides power components.
Evergreen supplies power components and devices to small- to medium-sized companies in China.