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Company History The late Frederick A. Krehbiel founded the Molex Products Company in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938. He named the company after Molex, a plastic material he developed, and soon was manufacturing a variety of products from this material, including clock cases, flowerpots, valve wheels and salt tablet dispensers....

Company History The name was chosen because we wanted to show we recognized that our real mission wasn’t just providing hardware, but rather that we were solving a customer’s technical problems. The year 1984 was a good year to start a new microwave amplifier company! We knew this because...

Company History Microwave Journal published its first issue in July of 1958. Founder and Publisher William Bazzy declared that “Our objective is simply to offer a forum to the industry and be the means of communication for the people in this segment of the electronic field.” Led by Editor...

Narda Microwave: 55 years strong In February 1953, just a few months after The Saddlemen became Bill Haley and His Comets, four design engineers armed with a $20,000 engineering services contract formed Nassau Research & Development Associates. From these inauspicious beginnings in the back of a machine shop in...

Company History R&K Laboratory was founded by Reichiro Kobana in August 1977 and began shipping RF double balanced mixers in late 1978. His mission was to develop unique RF and microwave products for academic and commercial applications in Japan. R&K Laboratory became R&K Company Limited in February 1980, when...

Company History As early as 1932, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz, the company’s founders, developed their first measuring instrument, an interference wavemeter. In 1933, they set up shop under the name ‘Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. L. Rohde und Dr. H. Schwarz’ in Munich (renamed Rohde & Schwarz in...

Company History The roots of Reactel, Incorporated began when founder Emanuel (Manny) Assurian was employed as an Engineer by suburban Washington, DC filter manufacturer I-tel in the mid 1960’s. Eventually, Manny was named President of CIR-Q-TEL (I-tel’s new name) and remained there for several years. In 1979, Manny decided...

Company History Remcom has been a pioneer in the field of electromagnetic simulation since it was founded in 1994, introducing the first commercial FDTD solution. Raymond Luebbers and his graduate students H. Scott Langdon and Christopher Penney formed Remcom as an extension to the research that they were conducting...

Company History In 1991, William (Bill) J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal founded RF Micro Devices® in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their mission was to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology to the burgeoning wireless communications semiconductor marketplace, also in its early stages of...

50 Years of History In 1958, when the first issue of Microwave Journal came out, Rogers Corporation was already producing products for the nascent electronics market. At the time Rogers’ DUROID™ line of fiber-reinforced polymer materials were being used in gaskets and electrical insulation. DUROID brand products like RT/duroid®...