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News Release from: Tecan
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 June 2004
California provides base for global
expansion
Tecan has opened a new sales and technical support facility in California to ensure the best local support for its increasing customer bases in the USA and rapidly emerging markets of Mexico and Asia.
Headquartered in the UK and established across the globe over the last three decades, high-precision metal part and tooling specialist, Tecan has opened the doors to its new sales and technical support facility in California, in order to ensure the best local support for its increasing customer bases in the US and rapidly emerging markets of Mexico and Asia The company offers single-source high-precision metal part and tooling solutions, for present-day and next-generation contract manufacturing requirements
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"From this dedicated new facility we will support our existing US and Asian customer base, as well as develop new R and D projects and business with some of the world's leading technology companies".
"Furthermore, the move allows us to enhance support to our existing agency and distribution networks".
The company's established markets include CEM, automotive, defence, industrial, medical, aerospace and telecommunications.
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In the case of microparts - micro/photo electroformed metal parts fabricated to previously unheard of levels of accuracy and resolution - the company reports growth across a raft of new-generation application arenas, where revolutionary concepts have become reality.
These micro-applications include sensors, actuators, hearing aids, medical devices, optical instruments, micro-lenses, meshes, masks, displays and micro-fluidic devices.
Microparts can be manufactured to extremely small scale, with features, such as apertures, fluidic channels or raised lands, down to 2um - with tolerances at submicron levels.
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