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FCI Connector solutions: FCI connect

FCI - A wide range of products: FCI connect

With operations in 30 countries and sales of 1.28 billion euros in 2005, FCI is a leading manufacturer of connectors. Our 13,500 employees are committed to providing customers with high-quality, innovative products for a wide range of consumer and industrial applications.

Automotive

FCI offers a complete range of reliable, cost effective and innovative solutions for automotive applications. FCI provides connectors systems for engine, cockpit, safety, multimedia and other electronic applications. Through outstanding quality, cost competitiveness and delivery performance, FCI is recognized by its customers as their strategic partner. We are the undisputed leader in Airbag connector systems for safety restraint applications and are proud to participate to the protection of the physical integrity of the car passengers. FCI supports you with a full range of connector solutions for the automotive and consumer electronics markets. Our products fall into the following categories: I/O Interconnect Solutions, In-device Interconnect Solutions, Convenience Ports. FCI co-operates with OEMs to co-develop a wide range of I/O solutions, both male and female. Our offering includes both ISO- and non-ISO-compliant solutions, FAKRA connectors and high speed interconnect solutions like electrical Most and LVDS. With regard to in-device connectors, we also designed solutions that withstand the vibrations and shocks encountered in automotive applications. FCI automotive products are adapted to many automotive applications such as: Terminal systems, Instrument panel and cockpit, Harness sectioning Engine compartment, Flex interconnection systems, Safety restraints, ECU connectors & packages, Car Multimedia devices. Our innovative Floating Board-to-Board solution BTFW offers high density and contact reliability. Our FFC/FPC connectors have gas-tight high-pressure contacts to connect LCD displays and DVD-players. Tuner, navigation, and mobile phone modules can be connected via various proven Board-to-Board solutions, such as BergStak®, Conan® or MinitekTM. Our offering is completed by Convenience Ports. These include SD/CF card connectors, SIM-card readers or USB ports. Our i-VDR connectors allow you to integrate removable Hard Disk Drives into multimedia devices. In Automotive market, product trade names like SICMA, DUOTWIN, APEX are the preferred choice for terminals in harnesses thanks to their reliability and versatility.

Energy Power & Utility

FCI provides a complete range of electrical products that cater to the vast power utility sector, including construction, maintenance and repair, public services and central office. We are constantly adding to our range of products and services by producing targeted solutions for the most demanding tasks. FCI-BURNDY ® Products are manufactured by Electrical Power Interconnect Division which is part of the third largest connector manufacturer in the world, and provides reliable connection systems and solutions to the Telecommunications, Data, Industrial, Instrumentation and Energy Industries. Exceptional customer service, the industry's highest quality products, and continuous innovation are the things that FCI-BURNDY® Products prides itself on providing. We have a wide range of tooling for all your connector needs and an electrical connector to meet every one of your power needs. Connectors are available for splicing, tapping, terminating, for conducting or grounding with system-designed tools for application by hydraulic, mechanical or powder actuated. FCI provides a large range of Terminal lugs and connectors telecommunications and Cable management system. We design, manufacture and market a wide range of products for transportation systems and electrical power distribution, construction, Grounding, Electrical products for telecom, Transmission, and manufacturing industries. FCI supplies connectors for high-voltage aluminium and copper transformers and related hardware. We are present in the transmission applications with products for vibration control, transmission line, OPGW and ADSS.

Communications

FCI is a leading supplier of interconnect solutions for networks and telecommunication infrastructures, consumer electronics and data storage. We continually develop innovative high-speed and miniaturized connectors to bring cost-effective products to the market. FCI designs, manufactures and supplies innovative and competitive interconnect solutions for Data, Datacom, Telecom, Consumer electronic. We offer a wide range of high-speed and high-density connectors for Switching equipment, transmission cabinets, DSLAMs – ADSL, Wireless Infrastructure equipment with products such as Airmax VS ®, Metral 4000, and Powerblade. FCI manufactures connectors for Servers, Data-Storages, Laptop and Desktop Computers, Hard Disk Drives and Peripherals with SATA products, DDR2, Eyemax. We designs connectors for Medical Electronics, Industrial Controls and Instrumentation with Gig-Array®, Compact PCI. We are a best class player in connectors for Mobile phones, PDAs, CD & DVD Players, PDP and LCD TV’s, Set top boxes and displays, Digital Cameras, Modems and Telematics (CMD). FCI develops leading edge technologies such as Ball Grid Array Attach Systems, Virtual Shield High Speed backpanel connectors, MID based connectors solutions. In Communications market, the long established products range METRAL, MILLIPACS, and the more recently introduced AIRMAX and DENSISHIELD feature the advanced know-how of FCI in high-speed back panels connectors.

Data

FCI’s Data Division is a key supplier to companies that manufacture computing, networking, telecommunications, and personal communications equipment ranging from servers and storage devices to personal computers and cashless payment systems. FCI is the leading innovator in the design, development and high volume manufacturer of Ball Grid Array (BGA) connectors for dense mezzanine board packaging operating at extremely high signal rates. FCI is also a world leader in providing cost-effective and innovative backpanel, board-to-board, and I/O interconnect solutions that satisfy increasingly-demanding performance requirements in the converging Datacom and Telecom markets. We manufactures products for a wide range of applications as Desktops - Mobile - Server - Storage - Hard disk drives – Printer. FCI is known as the world leader in backpanel connectors. The Metral® 2mm system is used by major equipment manufacturers and is deployed in data equipment across the globe. Other connector lines, such as DIN and Millipacs® hard-metric connectors, broaden our offering and are used not only in communication but increasingly in industrial applications. I/O stands for “Input/Output” and encompasses connectors used for external connections between equipment and other equipment or devices. I/O includes connector types such as modular jacks (the traditional connector for connecting to the telephone system), D-Subminiature (an industry standard especially common in computers and general industrial equipment), USB (Universal Serial Bus, another data standard), and many more. FCI offers connectors for these standardized applications, and we also have capability to design to custom I/O requirements for applications such as mobile phones. In Data market, FCI BGA technology is widely recognized for mezzanine board to board connectors and IC sockets, like MEG-ARRAY and GIG-ARRAY series.

Consumer

We offer a wide range of products as: I/O CONNECTORS with Modular Jacks, USB, D-Subminiature, DVI, HDMI, SATA, Mobile I/O sliding, Mobile I/O compression, DC Jacks, Audio Jacks, RCA Jacks, SIM Connector, Smart Card Connectors, Flash memory Cards, PC Card Headers, ROCard™ and Wireless ROCard™, ExpressCard™ Module Card Kit, ExpressCard™ Host System, iVDR Connector Kit. We are also present on the board to board connectors market with: BergStik® 2.54 mm, Dubox™ 2.54 mm, Quickie® 2.54 mm, Minitek™ 2 mm Modular System, Rib-Cage™ High Density .050” Pitch Connector System, PHEC 1.27 mm, Conan® 1.0 mm, BergStak® 0.8 mm Stacking Connectors, Floating Board-to-Board, Miniature Board-to-Board, Compression Connectors, Battery Connectors, LVDS Connectors, FFC - FPC Connectors, DILB Sockets, SOJ, Sockets, PLCC Sockets, Camera Sockets, Thin Coax Cable Connectors. FCI is a leading supplier of interconnect solutions for Brown products - Card readers - Mobile phones. In Consumer market, FCI BGA technology is widely recognized for mezzanine board to board connectors and IC sockets, like MEG-ARRAY and GIG-ARRAY series.

Micropackaging

FCI is the world’s leading supplier of micro circuitry on flexible films for smart card applications. FCI has solid expertise in consumer peripherals, antennas for RFID applications and flexible circuits for customized applications. We offer a complete wide range of applications and products: Flexible circuits for smart cards applications - Flexible circuits for customized applications - Flexible HDI for consumer applications - Antennas for RFID applications. In addition to being the premier supplier of smart card contacts, FCI Microconnections has always responded to its customers’ needs with innovative solutions. We offer such features as Nickel Hard Surface (NiHS), thereby increasing the lifetime of smart card contacts and their resistance to corrosion. Palladium platting and double-sized contacts were also introduced by FCI Microconnections. We design flex packages to meet the electrical and thermal requirements of high pin count and high frequency devices. Thus we are able to offer flex HDI suited to most current applications and are already devising high-density flex circuits for the application of tomorrow. FCI provides customized flex circuits for such end-use applications as watches, medical instrumentation, mobile phones, and inkjet printers. To meet our customers’ needs, our product can be used with a variety of micropackaging technologies including Flip Chip, Tape automated bonding, and chip on flex. Polyimide and epoxy glass substrates are available on request. We offer a range of low- and high- frequency antennas for RFID applications, and provide expertise in antenna design to customers when needed. We are the world number 1 supplier in Smart card industry. Reference supplier for watch industry and RFID antennas applications.

Industrial, Instrumentation & Medical

FCI is also your source for interconnect solutions in your next process control application. FCI brings its superior product performance and outstanding technical support to meet your needs in products like human machine interfaces, programmable controllers, Industrial PCs and actuators. FCI’s extensive experience in developing data industry standards also makes us the perfect fit for your industrial PC based applications. We continually develop innovative high-speed and miniaturized connectors to bring cost-effective products to the market. FCI designs, manufactures and supplies innovative and competitive interconnect solutions for Industrial, Instrumentation and Medical applications. Our applications, product and services include connectors for Medicals Electronics, Industrial Control and Instrumentation including products such as GIG-Array®, Millipacs ® and PCI Express.