Minneapolis, MN, December 6, 2006 – http://www.minco.com – Minco, a leading designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has released its new Flex Circuits Design Guide, which when used in conjunction with IPC design standards provides the necessary information to successfully design flexible circuits.

While flexible circuits have been around for years, demands from manufacturers for smaller and lighter applications are bringing flexible circuits to the forefront as a viable way of meeting these goals.

“Flexible circuits offer compact, low mass packaging that can reduce space and weight by up to 75%” said Mark Finstad, Principal Applications Engineer for the Flex Circuit Division of Minco and Chairman of IPC-2223 Workgroup.   “Due to limited education available in the industry, engineers are only just beginning to learn the new ways that flexible circuits can be integrated into their designs.”

Minco’s Flex Circuits Design Guide provides the education that engineers need to design with flexible circuits, including design guidelines, specifications, detailed illustrations and instructions on how to build a flex circuit mock-up.

The Flex Circuits Design Guide offers recommendations on how to design flex circuits to optimally fit applications while providing superior electrical interconnection. The guide also provides a tutorial on different types of flex circuits, including Rigid-flex and Flex-Coils™, which are flex circuits containing integral wire coils used for antennas or inductors.

Minneapolis, MN, February 16, 2006 — http://www.minco.com - Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, was among the top companies honored for best technologies for RTDs (resistance temperature detectors) in CONTROL Magazine’s 14th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

Minco received 6% of the votes in the best RTD supplier category to rank among the biggest names in the process industry in CONTROL Magazine’s annual unaided reader survey.

“We are honored to accept this award,” said Tony Peet, Minco Vice President, “especially since it’s voted on by process industry professionals that actually use these products.”

Minco RTDs are widely used throughout the process industry, building automation and HVAC, and military and aerospace applications. Minco’s diverse line of RTD packages, ranging from standard probes and assemblies, to flexible Thermal-Ribbons and Thermal-Tabs, to miniature embedment and stator sensors, are manufactured to deliver precision accuracy and reliability in a variety of harsh environments.

“We always strive to manufacture industry-leading, reliable RTDs that can be used in a multitude of applications,” said Marty Knutson, Minco Marketing Manager, Sensors and Instruments Division. “We’re very excited to learn that professionals in the process industry think likewise”.