News Release from: Pulse
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 November 2005
Pulse expands with acquisition of LK Products
Pulse has expanded its wireless communications product offering through the acquisition of LK Products Oy, a producer of cellular and non-cellular antennas and integrated modules for mobile handsets.
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Pulse has expanded its wireless communications product offering through the acquisition of LK Products Oy, Kempele, Finland, a producer of cellular and non-cellular antennas and integrated modules for mobile handsets. This is claimed to position Pulse as the world's second largest supplier of handset antennas, building on its already comprehensive line of RF magnetic components for use in wireless and RF applications. LK is a leader in both internal antennas and integrated antenna modules.
It also designs and manufactures external cellular antennas and ceramic chip antennas for narrow band communication applications such as GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth.
LK's product line complements Pulse's line of antennas that are compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (WiFi), Bluetooth and ZigBee applications and devices that utilise industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands.
Pulse's antennas also perform with GPS, RFID and the newer wideband technologies.
Pulse's RF magnetic components are used in mobile communications, cable television, hybrid fibre/coax (HFC) equipment, cable modems, set-top boxes, home networking and RF medical and industrial equipment.
Platforms include wirewound chip inductors, transformers/baluns, low-pass filters, diplex filters, directional couplers and RF splitter/combiners.
'The acquisition of LK makes Pulse a major player in the wireless communications market', said Alan Benjamin, Senior Vice President of Pulse's Signal Products Group.
'Our antenna business is poised to grow significantly in the next few years'.
'LK is now the cornerstone of the newly formed antenna products division in Pulse's Signal Products Group'.
'LK has an innovative product portfolio and a team of extremely talented people'.
'Pulse's global infrastructure and manufacturing expertise will help grow LK's business beyond handsets into a wide variety of devices and applications', said Pulse's President John Kowalski'.
''In addition, we can supply our customers with a full range of wireless technologies, and they can benefit from the economies of scale of Pulse's and LK's combined global sales, marketing, manufacturing, and management teams'.
The LK team will continue to be led by its current management under Jouni Anttila, who becomes Vice President, Antenna Products at Pulse.
The group will remain in Kempele, Finland.
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