AVX Corporation

AVX is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of a vast portfolio of advanced electronic components, including: capacitors, inductors, filters, resistors, couplers, diodes, and circuit protection devices, as well as a broad range of innovative sensor, control, interconnect and antenna solutions. With 33 research, design, manufacturing, and customer support facilities in 16 countries around the world, AVX offers significant competitive advantages, including delivery and production capabilities optimized to suit each individual customer’s just-in-time inventory requirements, and global engineering teams experienced in developing new-to-market product solutions especially designed to fulfill customer’s unique application requirements.

AVX has successfully served the automotive, industrial, medical, military, consumer electronics, communications, and transportation markets for nearly 50 years. In the automotive sector, AVX actively contributes to the development of new safety, engine control, infotainment, and chassis control technologies. In the medical sector, advanced AVX products provide critical support for a wide range of implantable, life-supporting, treatment, imaging, and diagnostic devices, including pacemakers that regulate patients’ heartbeats, cochlear implants that provide audio input for the hearing-impaired, and diagnostic equipment that helps medical professionals identify and cure patients’ ailments. In the communications sector, our accomplished research and development (R&D) teams regularly anticipate needs and adapt and innovate products to support the explosive growth of next-generation technologies spanning smartphones and tablets to networks and datacenters.

Backed by decades of in-depth R&D, AVX products also provide critical enabling support for a wide variety of green technologies designed to conserve existing energy resources and create dependable, affordable electronic systems capable of effectively harnessing renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric power. High-reliability AVX components are at the forefront of countless products that are helping to ensure that both this generation and generations to come will benefit from cleaner, greener technologies designed to preserve and protect the environment, ranging from clean power generation and conversion systems to hybrid and electric vehicles in the personal and commercial vehicle and mass transportation markets, including cars, trucks, trams, and trains.