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.”