October 29, 2008

Düsseldorf, Germany ITOCHU SysTech GmbH and Accelonix Group will celebrate 20 years of successful European sales partnership for the Takaya flying probe tester at the Electronica Trade show in Munich (11-14 November 2008), booth # A1, 428.

Accelonix successfully delivered its first Takaya flying probe tester to a French aerospace customer in 1988. Since then, Accelonix has delivered more than 200 Takaya flying probe testers in France, Benelux, Spain, Portugal and North Africa to more than 150 individual customer sites. 95% of these testers are still operational.

“Our Takaya range of equipment was a perfect addition to the Accelonix portfolio”, said Takayuki Okubo, Executive Managing Director of ITOCHU SysTech GmbH. “It is of utmost importance that customers receive the highest level of service and support and Accelonix has an impressive team of individuals in Europe. They have also demonstrated excellent customer relationships and technical expertise and we are delighted to have partnered them for 20 years.” 

“The companies we work with are all market leaders in their fields,” added Jonathan Hall, Partner of the Accelonix Group. “ITOCHU and Takaya have proven to be extremely reliable suppliers of technologically superior equipment and we are extremely pleased to be representing them.”

ITOCHU SysTech GmbH, subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation in Japan, specializes in the sales and service of innovative production machines and test systems in the electronic and microelectronic fields, as well as individual machines and complete lines for the automation of industrialized production processing. Located in Düsseldorf, Germany, ITOCHU SysTech GmbH is responsible for the whole territory of Europe. Affiliated companies in almost every country guarantee optimal customer service.

Accelonix is a member of the Accelonix Group of companies with offices in Benelux, France, Spain, UK, Tunisia & China. Accelonix is a company dedicated to providing solutions for applications including PCB test and assembly, device programming, EMC/RF and advanced microelectronics packaging equipment.