On June 25, 2009, Altor Fund III acquired Pulse MedTech, global leader in components for hearing instruments and medical devices. Sonion was sold to Technitrol in 2008 and the activities related to hearing instruments, headsets and medical devices was organized in Pulse Medtech. With Altor’s acquisition, the company is renamed to Sonion.

Tenrod Australia, official distributor for Macroblock Inc., a leading manufacturer of LED Driver ICs has just released its LED Driver with Silent Error Detection and other features to enable smart driving of LEDs particularly when used outdoors in large arrays.

TENROD AUSTRALIA introduces the DOMINANT Primax NAW-BSG-NP-1. This LED offers a new package to provide high intensity light output in a very small package. The Primax package has a compact size of just 3.5mm x 3.5mm with an ultra low height profile of 1.2mm.

2D Barcode Solutions manufactures and provides standard and customized Thermal Transfer label solutions for applications across multiple markets, and has become a well known leading solution provider for total ID needs.

Nortec manufactures a wide variety of labels specifically designed for security applications viz:

• Tamper Evident
• Eggshell “VOID”
• Holographic
• Anti-counterfeit
• UV Invisible Fluorescing
• Firefly Fluorescing

Nortec manufactures a wide variety of labels for Electronic Assembly (PCBs & Components) to enable automatic identification of the pcb or the component.

Tenrod is now the official distributor for Macroblock Inc for Australia and New Zealand for their excellent range LED Driver integrated circuits. Macroblock Inc. is Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of LED Driver ICs with a Top Ten ranking in the world for LED Driver chips.

In most custom design LCD, the user may wish to have the touch keys built on the panel, overlapping or adjacent the LCD pattern. Clover can offer a capacitance type touch panel which may meet most applications at the reasonable cost.

Clover Display Ltd can now offer an Enhanced Contrast LCD of a Negative Mode LCD.

Clover Display Ltd has release a new Positive Colour LCD which shows a colour pattern on a light grey colour background with the backlight on, and a dark color pattern with the backlight off.