LAKE FOREST, CA – November 30, 2004 - Insulectro, the largest distributor of printed circuit board materials, supplies, and process solutions, has just completed start-up of a full fabrication and distribution center in Wood Dale, IL.

The facility is located at 252 Beinoris Drive, in the heart of Chicago’s PCB Manufacturing region.  The facility will support Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio with complete fabrication capabilities, cold room storage, chemistry storage and materials distribution.

“We are looking forward to expanding our presence in Chicago with the addition of our new distribution and fabrication center,” said Tim Redfern, President of Insulectro.  “With the support of our customers we have developed a very strong base of business in the Chicago market and now we have the fortunate opportunity to significantly increase our service and support to our customers with a local presence that will include sales, stocking and quick turn fabrication services.” 

Insulectro’s introduction to the Chicago market began in 1999 with Gould, Tristar Laminates, and Express products, followed by Dupont and Atotech in 2003. 

Insulectro has supported the Midwest from their Minneapolis and Dallas area facilities for the past four years.  The addition of the Chicago distribution and fabrication capabilities will enable Insulectro to expedite service to existing and future customers throughout the Central U.S.  

The new Chicago team is comprised of regional sales, distribution, and manufacturing personnel that package Insulectro’s products and services.  For product availability or further information, please contact Trey Adams at (630) 350-1498. 

ABOUT INSULECTRO

Insulectro is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA and has 15 sales and stocking locations across the US. The company was founded 40 years ago and is a major supplier of advanced electronic materials used by PCB fabricators to manufacture complex multilayer printed circuit boards and other electronic interconnect systems, such as backplanes, PC cards and semiconductor packaging systems.  Some of the end uses of printed circuit materials are computers, data and telecom equipment, PDA’s and wireless devices.

Additional information about Insulectro is available at http://www.Insulectro.com