IN2TEC-About Your Interface Solution Provider

OVERVIEW

Dedication to "Growth through Innovation" is at the core of IN2TEC's success as an interface solution provider. Innovation is not just a buzz word at IN2TEC, it is a way of life for all its employees. With significant investment plans, dedicated resources and a relentless focus, the IN2TEC team provides custom solutions to successfully solve your interface challenges. IN2TEC's goal is to provide solutions which go beyond cost effectiveness to establish a real competitive advantage for our customers' products.

IN2TEC has built a broad portfolio of interface technologies in the belief that a supplier who is biased by a certain technology will lack a broad-based expertise and is unlikely to be open-minded enough to supply a customer with the "best" solution on a regular basis. This product portfolio and the continuous development in a team-based environment give IN2TEC the competitive edge when it comes to adding more to a customer's business than merely a supply relationship. IN2TEC provides a partnership for the future.

HISTORY

IN2TEC was formed in 2001 by a management buyout of the C&K Switches division from ITT/Cannon. C&K Switches had been in operation since the late 1970's and had been a leader in the membrane switch and interface panel business in both North America and Europe since the mid-1980's. With a strong background in mechanical switch principles and electrical contact theory, this group brought a unique perspective and much needed stability to the fledgling membrane switch field of the 1980's.

From this important skill base, IN2TEC has blossomed as a full-line interface solution provider with valued customers and carefully planned resources around the globe.

As the IN2TEC sign was being installed over the Kettering, UK headquarters in 2001, plans were already underway to employ state-of-the-art production and Lean Organization techniques. The first step towards this was the introduction of the IN2TEC Production System (I.P.S.).

I.P.S. is based upon the Toyota Production System, which has been adopted as the de-facto standard for the automotive industry and its supplier base. The Toyota System is considered to be a model for achieving effective implementation of the following principles:

Efficiency
Cost consciousness
Valuing people & developing their talents
Work site oriented thinking
Problem solving
Team work

This innovative approach, discussed in greater detail in the IPS section, has created a Best-In-Class interface manufacturing operation which has been the focus of numerous plant tours, industry visits and university study groups. More importantly the obvious benefits of this Lean Organization have generated an enthusiasm across the company which, in turn, has fostered teamwork, efficiency and a spirit of continuous improvement that has increased the value of the solutions that IN2TEC provides to its customers.

IN2TEC's focus on customer satisfaction is demonstrated in the recent upgrading of the Quality System in its Kettering, UK facility to ISO 9001:2000. Very few of IN2TEC's competitors have been able to so quickly embrace the newest release of ISO 9001.

FUTURE

IN2TEC has been able to grow considerably despite the challenging market conditions which marked its first two years since taking over the C&K Switches operation. IN2TEC's future plans are to build upon its initial success by pursuing its strategy of coupling an unmatched expertise in a broad array of innovative interface technologies with unsurpassed customer support. IN2TEC Ltd in the U.K. and IN2TEC Inc. in the U.S. are the two main hubs for customer support supplemented by local support groups across all of Europe and North America (click here for more detail).

IN2TEC is a global supplier of interface solutions which currently manufactures its products in UK, Taiwan and China but is actively pursuing additional partnership and acquisition opportunities with special interest in North America, Europe and developing areas in Asia. Interested parties may contact IN2TEC's Chairman with serious inquiries only, please.