Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June 7, 2011 - Dawar Technologies, Inc. announced today that it is a fully franchised supplier to Avnet Embedded Americas, part of Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Dawar Technologies and Avnet Embedded have extended their agreement to offer Dawar’s full line of DawarTouch® touch screens and Human Machine Interface (HMI) products and services through the Avnet Embedded organization.
“The Avnet Embedded display solutions team plays a key role with Dawar in identifying the best overall touch screen and LCD solutions to meet the needs of our customer base”, said Dennis Fitzgerald, senior vice president, Dawar Technologies. “Avnet can provide the hardware and software integration to complement our HMI solutions to power these products along with best-in-class supply-chain services.”
About Dawar
Dawar is a privately held manufacturer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Certified to ISO 9001 standards. Dawar offers manufacturing and engineering services for high volume, low volume and prototype projects. The company’s product line features the DawarTouch® line of Projected Capacitive, Analog MultiTouch Resistive (AMR), 4, 5 & 8-wire Resistive, Glass Front and Surface Capacitive touch screens. Dawar also offers integration and customization capabilities. Completing Dawar’s HMI offering are membrane switches, graphic overlays, keypads, labels, Duraswitch™ products and smart cards. More information is available at www.dawar.com.
About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's website is located at www.em.avnet.com.
About Avnet, Inc.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 3, 2010, Avnet generated revenue of $19.16 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.