San Marcos, CA — Visual Communications Company (VCC), a provider of innovative Optoelectronics solutions, recently announced the appointment of Advance Technical Sales, Inc. as its manufacturer’s representative for the southwest. Based in southern California, VCC is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of LED mounting components.

“Advance Technical Sales is a great addition to the VCC team,” said Mark Baker, National Sales Manager, of VCC. “It possesses a solid business ethic and is well-known in the industry for its knowledge and professionalism. We are very excited to be working with the team.” Advance Technical Sales will cover a four-state region including Texas, the Texas – Mexico Border, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. “The partnership between VCC and Advance Technical Sales is part of VCC’s effort to augment its existing rep network in order to best support the expanded demand and growth opportunities that the company is currently experiencing,” explained Baker.

The use of the HMC 461 CTP lens with a 10mm VCC LED provides for optimal brightness and a wide viewing angle, which makes the lens easily viewed in a bright room. The lens and LED were combined with the CNX 460 LED cable assembly.

VCC’s solution functions as a status indicator for the patient who is being scanned. The patient is instructed to look at the indicator and not to move until the light is off. In Philips’ design stage, it was important to find a lens that was large enough for the patient to easily view, but it also needed to be aesthetic appealing. The HMC 461 CTP met the all of these requirements.

Additional product information is available on the web at Philips Medical

San Marcos, CA – Visual Communications Company (VCC) is very pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Millennium Marketing, Inc. Effective October 1, 2009, Millennium Marketing takes on the role of Manufacturer Representative for VCC in Canada. In this role Millennium Marketing will promote and support VCC’s products to Distributors and End-Users all over Canada.

Millennium Marketing is an Ontario-based, privately owned sales company providing high-quality electro-mechanical products to all sectors of industry. Millennium Marketing has a well-developed network and exceptional expertise in fans, switches, sensors, and power supplies, and currently represents industry–leading products. The VCC line of LEDs and LED mounting components is a natural complement to the existing line up of Millennium Marketing products.

Andrew Zanelli, President of VCC welcomes the new relationship with Millennium Marketing. “Eric Post, Catherine Davies, and Robert Grieco have established their company as an integral and well-respected Manufacturer’s Representative in the Canadian market. Their solid customer relationships and product knowledge will enable them to be a key driver and supporter of business for VCC.”

San Marcos, CA – Visual Communications Company (VCC), a leading provider of LEDs and LED mounting components, has named New Hampshire-based Sales Engineering Company as its manufacturer rep firm for the Northeastern region; representing New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

“As a manufacturer’s representative with our own reputation to maintain, we strive to work with manufacturers offering the best products on the market,” said Stephen Rossi, President, Sales Engineering Company. “We are very enthusiastic about representing the LED solutions from VCC.” With 65 years in business, Sales Engineering Company has a business philosophy emphasizing quality and commitment, with the goal of maintaining long-term relationships with their customers and manufacturers.

“Our new relationship with Sales Engineering Company,” commented Mark Baker, National Sales Manager at VCC, “greatly strengthens our representation in the New England and allows us to take advantage of their expertise in electro-mechanical design. Sales Engineering Company represents a collection of highly respected and innovative manufacturers and we’re pleased that they have added VCC to that elite group.”

1W High Power LED on Star Board

After enjoying initial success with our through-hole LED offering, VCC is moving forward with its surface-mount LED line. The introduction of the surface-mount line rounds out VCC’s ability to be a true single-source solution for LED needs. Whether its the LED, a light pipe, or any other of the many VCC mounting components, we are now a one-stop shop for our customers.

Standard package sizes will include 0402, 0603, 0805, 1206, and PLCC2. Additionally, VCC will be offering a line of high power SMD LED solutions. These include .5W, 1W, and 3W products. Custom design solutions are also available. LEDs will be available in early October.

All of the VCC LED specification sheets are currently available at the VCC website.

VCC is pleased to announce the launch of the Flexfire™ series of flexible/fiber-optic light pipes.

VCC’s FLX Series Fiber-optic LED light pipes provide the simplest method of transmitting light from a PCB-mounted (Through Hole or SMD) LED to a front panel. Competing flexible light pipe products offer limited lens options for interfacing to the panel and LED. The FLX Series offers wider design capabilities for lens styles to include wide angle, moisture-sealed, and high profile.

Additional product specifications can be found on the VCC website.

Advantages over Traditional Copper Wire Solutions

VCC’s FLX Series flexible light pipes have many advantages over legacy copper wire solutions. These include but are not limited to:

• Immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI)
• Does not conduct or transfer electrostatic discharge (ESD) pulses
• Non-conductive light path- pinching of copper wires has the potential to cause electrical shorting, which may damage components
• No solder or crimp terminations
• Single versus multiple conductors
• Graceful degradation under “extreme” bending conditions
• Diffused light output pattern – no hot spots or narrow field of view
• Less components

If you would like to find out how to incorporate Flexfire™ into your design, feel free to contact us.

San Marcos, CA — Visual Communications Company (VCC), a provider of innovative Optoelectronics solutions, welcomes the addition of Control Sales, Inc. as its newest Manufacturer Representative. The addition of Control Sales enables VCC to continue its forward momentum and growth in additional key North American markets.

Control Sales will be responsible for markets in Illinois and Wisconsin. Selected based on its longstanding success in electronic and electro-mechanical sales, Control Sales represents a fresh-step towards the promotion of VCC’s product portfolio. “We are very excited to add Control Sales to the VCC family,” said Andrew Zanelli, President of VCC. “It brings valuable assets, resources and knowledge to our North American business. We look forward to jointly forging ahead as we continue to grow the VCC brand.”

The addition of the sales rep firms comes on the heels of VCC’s recent announcements of new staff. Encarnacion “Shony” de Guzman has joined VCC as Quality Assurance/ Regulatory Compliance Specialist. Shony will spearhead VCC’s efforts to remain ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Additionally, VCC plans to begin the search for an addition to the engineering department. The search will begin in October.

For more information on VCC, please visit: vcclite.com.

Recently, Germany’s Transportation Safety Administration developed a set of laws that provide for large transportation trucks to be accompanied by smaller safety vehicles in order to protect against accidents with other vehicles. These smaller safety vehicles were designed to include large LED displays on both the front and back of the vehicle, which serve the purpose of alerting traffic to the approaching hazard. For the LED displays, VCC’s CLR 301 CTP was chosen as the panel lens.

The CLR 301 is a low-profile, button-type lens that is designed for use with 5mm LEDs. It has a smooth, clean look with a convex shaped surface protruding above the panel. This minimizes the potential problem of snagging or other interference that might result from varying environmental conditions.

SJS Products is a quality distributor of electro-mechanical components and fasteners. The SJS Products corporate office/warehouse is located just east of Sacramento, California and it has distribution centers at the heart of the Silicon Valley in San Jose, California, in the quickly-growing electronics manufacturing market of Guadalajara, México and in Hong Kong to provide local support to the Asia Pacific region. July 1, 2009 marks its 41^st anniversary in business.

“We are excited about our new alliance”, said Andrew Zanelli, President of VCC. “The SJS Products team has shown that they have a deep understanding of VCC’s core competencies and a strong presence in key markets all over the world.”

More on SJS Products from Its Website:

The company mission statement clearly defines our philosophy and approach to the marketplace. “Our commitment is to cause quality, service, teamwork, excellence and leadership to happen which benefits the customer, the company and ourselves.”

SJS Products, a Jamcor Corporation, firmly believes in being proactive in a very reactionary industry. Our engineering capabilities, coupled with the strategic relationships we have developed with our factories, are focused on assisting the customer to find cost-reducing solutions to engineering challenges. We have worked hard to create strong partnerships with many manufacturers operating in Asia in order to provide our customers with the most innovative and low-cost opportunities in the industry.

Those strategic relationships with our factory partners mean that SJS Products, a Jamcor Corporation, is poised to work with all our business partners in creating customized product solutions. We pride ourselves on being able to offer “specials” in situations where our competitors cannot. We believe that cost-savings can be best achieved through efficient engineering design coupled with strategic procurement practices including volume purchasing and Vendor Managed Inventory programs. If we can pool our resources to lower the cost of any given product, we can pass that savings on to our customers.

SJS Products on the Web

Hearst Business Media recently presented Visual Communications Company with an award for outstanding advertising in Hearst’s Electronic Products publication. The award is in recognition of the advertisment that achieved outstanding readership response, as measured against all other ads. The survey was conducted by Ad*Q Studies and was focused on not only ad recall, but also whether the readers buy/specify the advertised products. VCC ranked tenth among advertisers in all product categories and first in the Optoelectronics category.

Here is a copy of the advertisement: