September 2025 Connector Industry News

Upcoming industry events, as well as recent award, partnership, promotion, personnel, facility, distribution, standards, association, and certification news from across the connector industry.

September 2025 Connector Industry News

September 2025 Connector Industry News > Event News

Caption: Neutrik Americas team celebrates 50th anniversary

On July 10, Neutrik Group celebrated the 50th anniversary of its iconic brand NEUTRIK with an event at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., near the company’s Americas headquarters. Employees, customers, partners, dealers, and distributors from across the region were in attendance. With a theme inspired by speed, performance, and innovation — all qualities shared by both NEUTRIK and NASCAR — Neutrik Group’s new CEO Lukas von Arx acknowledged the company’s roots and emphasized its continued dedication to engineering excellence and customer partnerships. Founded in 1975 in Schaan, Liechtenstein, NEUTRIK revolutionized the AV world by introducing the first XLR connector with latch locking. The company established Neutrik USA in 1988 and over the decades, the company expanded its product portfolio to include powerCON, etherCON, speakON, opticalCON, and most recently, its mediaCON and FIBERFOX lines. In 2021, the Neutrik Group restructured as a multi-brand company with the integration of REAN and CONTRIK, broadening its capabilities across industrial and system integration markets. Watch the 50^th anniversary video here.

DigiKey’s Back to School Giveaway offers university students a chance to win products and swag. Five entrants will be randomly selected to win a prize package that includes products such as an Aven Tools LED lamp, a Pokit Innovations all-in-one digital tool, a Weidmüller wire stripper, an Adafruit Ladyada’s electronics toolkit, DigiKey swag, and more. One grand prize winner will also receive a Teledyne LeCroy Power Supply unit. The sweepstakes is open to any student with a university or college email address, and entries may be made in students’ local language. Visit DigiKey to enter. Submissions are open through Oct. 24, 2025, and winners will be announced around Nov. 15, 2025. Learn more about DigiKey’s free educational tools and academic resources for coursework and projects.

September 2025 Connector Industry News > Award News

DigiKey received the Distribution Excellence 2025 High Service Level Award from Sensirion. DigiKey was selected for this honor based on its global customer count and revenue growth metrics. The award was presented at Sensirion’s EMEA distribution meeting in Switzerland. DigiKey team members from North America and Europe accepted the award.

TTI Inc. has been named one of the Best Companies to Work for in Fort Worth 2025, a survey and awards program of Fort Worth Inc. in partnership with Workforce Research Group. Companies and organizations agree to allow their employees to be surveyed by Workforce Research Group. The data is then ranked based on employee benefits and company culture, such as leadership communications, vacation policies, wellness initiatives, training, diversity, and fun activities like outings to sporting events. TTI CEO Mike Morton said, “It’s one thing for others to acknowledge outstanding corporate culture and performance. It’s another when your own employees make the selection. I think we’ve got the best and hardest working employees in the industry, and I couldn’t be prouder of the entire TTI family. Congratulations. Let’s keep making this a fulfilling and fun workplace.”

September 2025 Connector Industry News > Personnel & Acquisitions News

Amphenol Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Trexon for approximately $1 billion in cash, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Trexon is headquartered in Boston, and with facilities in the U.S. and the U.K., is expected to have 2025 sales and EBITDA margins of approximately $290 million and 26%, respectively. Amphenol President and Chief Executive Officer R. Adam Norwitt said, “Trexon’s unique portfolio of high-reliability cable assembly products will be highly complementary to our existing offerings in the defense market. We look forward to working in partnership with Trexon’s experienced management team to deliver additional high-technology solutions to our customers post-closing.”

September 2025 Connector Industry News > Partnership and Distribution News

Phoenix Contact USA and Waldom Electronics Corporation have partnered on a new program that will help reduce the amount of inventory that ends up in a landfill. The program supports Phoenix Contact’s goal of a carbon-neutral value chain by 2030. Under the agreement, Phoenix Contact authorized distributors can send non-moving inventory to Waldom for possible resale. Waldom will manage this inventory and can resell the stock to other authorized distributors. The agreement also authorizes Waldom to designate a percentage of sales to fund environmental and plant-a-tree programs.

Sager Electronics, along with Advanced Energy, announced the addition of Impac, Mikron, Thyro, and Luxtron brands to the Sager portfolio. Impac offers compact digital pyrometers for thermal processing applications. Mikron delivers advanced thermal imaging solutions. Thyro specializes in power control technologies for thermal processing systems. Luxtron provides fiber optic temperature sensing solutions. In many advanced systems, these technologies from Advanced Energy are used in tandem. By offering this full-stack capability, Sager Electronics furthers its position as a trusted partner for OEMs building high-reliability systems.

Schaltbau has been selected as the preferred supplier for a major high-speed railway project in the United Kingdom. This opportunity will involve the provision of key components, including CT contactors, IntelliDesks, and state-of-the-art driver desks over an extended period. The high-speed railway project, designed to reduce travel times, enhance rail capacity, and promote sustainable travel, will see Schaltbau and SPII components assembled and supplied from the company’s UK facility, Schaltbau Machine Electrics in South Wales, with support from SPII in Italy. Across the United Kingdom, the development of new high-speed rail infrastructure is setting new standards for capacity, efficiency, and environmental performance. Modern electric rail networks not only reduce carbon emissions and support climate goals, but also unlock faster, more reliable journeys for passengers and freight alike.

TE Connectivity is an official partner of the Next2OEM research project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE, formerly Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action – BMWK). TE contributed to the development of a new connector geometry specifically designed for use in automated manufacturing processes with robotic gripper systems, part of the “Component Automation” work package in the Next2OEM project. In this area, connectors, cable lengths, and features such as joints, splices, brackets, and sheaths are specifically designed to enable reliable and efficient integration into automated handling and assembly lines. The connector design is being standardized to support automated processes from the supplier to integration into the vehicle at the OEM. The final version of this drawing is being finalized and forms the basis for future applications at OEMs and suppliers. The connector geometry has already been presented by TE Connectivity at Wiring Systems Congress and other industry events. See a demonstration video.

September 2025 Connector Industry News > New Technical Resources

Connectronics Inc. launched a new search feature on the company’s website that allows visitors to search for products by any attribute, including connector type, adapter type, series, configuration, body type, mounting type, impedance, polarity, and hermetic iso ground. In addition, various filters narrow and streamline search parameters. The new feature makes it simpler, faster, and more convenient to find more than 4,000 styles of connectors and adapters. The new search feature can be accessed from the product search link on the site’s homepage.

TTI Inc. and Molex are co-hosting three new “Big Ideas and Little-Known Facts” podcast series episodes highlighting the supplier’s state-of-the-art, high performance interconnect products. The series features hosts John Sandy, TTI supplier marketing manager, and John Crimmins, Molex worldwide account manager. The three episodes are: Entering New Markets the Molex Way (Molex guest expert: Elena Dugger, new market development manager), Mastering Low- to Mid-Power and Signal Connectivity (Molex guest expert: Ankur Jyoti Sharma, global product supervisor), and Tap Into Higher Power Potential (Pat Killian, Molex senior global product manager, high power). Access these new episodes wherever you get your podcasts.

September 2025 Connector Industry News > Association, Standards, & Certifications News

The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries, today announced the release of MIPI I3C Basic v1.2, a scalable utility and control bus interface for connecting peripherals to a microcontroller or an application processor, streamlining integration and improving cost efficiencies. Version 1.2 reorganizes the specification, with separate sections for mandatory and optional features that can be implemented based on application needs. MIPI I3C Basic is a rich subset of the member-version MIPI I3C that is licensed on royalty-free terms. The I3C interface, introduced in 2016 and significantly updated to v1.1 in 2019, was designed to build upon the key attributes of the legacy serial interfaces I2C, SPI, and UART while making it easier to implement. At the same time, it offers greater performance and power efficiency and removes many of the pain points faced by developers. MIPI I3C has been adopted by PCI-SIG and NVM Express as a system management bus (SMBus), by JEDEC in its sideband bus and DDR5 standard, by ETSI in its Smart Secure Platform (SSP) and Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), and is an area of focus for a MIPI liaison relationship with DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force). Download the I3C Basic specification.

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