Digi-Key signs Isabellenhütte USA

Isabellenhütte Heusler is familiar to European electronics engineers, for its precision and power resistors, its alloys and its measuring technology. The USA subsidiary has signed a distribution agreement with Digi-Key Electronics for worldwide access to the company’s resistors, which are qualified to AEC-Q200 and are RoHS-compliant and partly qualified for space according to ESCC.

Digi-Key supplies the entire catalogue of standard products, which includes components for battery management systems, power grids, vehicle electrification, drones and unmanned aircraft, space applications, industrial plants, household appliances and medical equipment.

Components are manufactured using the company’s ISA-Weld composite material technology, which adapts and shapes resistors for customer-specific resistance, and ISA-Plan film technology. Its precision and power resistors are also used in anti-lock braking, electric steering systems.


Isabellenhütte also provides precision alloys for automotive, aerospace, petrochemicals, analytics, processing, railways and control and measurement sectors.  A third arm of the business provides precision measurement systems for high currents used in stationary enery storage, traction battery systems, industrial converters and energy measurement.


Commenting on the signing, Uwe Keller, managing director of Isabellenhütte USA, said: “Digi-Key’s established supply chains. . .  will allow us to significantly expand our market presence and offer customers greater reliability and improved service.”

 

 

Caroline Hayes

Caroline Hayes

Caroline Hayes is the editor of Electronics Weekly. She has been covering the electronics industry for over 30 years, edited UK and pan-European titles and contributed to UK and international online and print publications. Although specialising in the semiconductor market, she also has a keen interest in education, careers and start-up opportunities in the broader electronics industry.

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