Posted January 15, 2002 Manufacturing News Instron Selects IEC for Volume Electronics Manufacturing Services IEC Electronics Corp. (Newark, N.Y.; www.iec-electronics.com) named Instron Corporation (Canton, Mass.; www.instron.com) its key electronics manufacturing service provider. IEC will manufacture printed circuit boards and provide complete systems build for over two-dozen products. Instron is a worldwide supplier of instruments, systems, software and accessories used to evaluate the mechanical properties and performance of virtually all of the earth's natural and man-made materials. IEC's President and CEO Thomas Lovelock said, "Instron's confidence in IEC further supports our strategy of focusing on companies in the industrial sector. We are now supporting a wide variety of products and new customers within the industrial segment allowing us to broaden our customer base and reduce variability caused by concentration in one specific segment. New customers' products range from Instron's scientific instruments, alternative power fuel cells, electronic valve control systems to automated testing solutions." The Manufacturing Report © Copyright 2002 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Editorial Dept: tmr-editorial@lionhrtpub.com Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com