MERITEC Meritec is the electronic connector and cable assembly division of parent company, Ohio Associated Enterprises, LLC (âx80x9cAssociated Enterprisesâx80x9d). Founded in 1967, The Company has firmly established itself in the global Electronic Interconnection Industry. The founder and owners actively participate in the dayâx80x90toâx80x90day management of The Company and ensure that The Company adheres to its Mission Statement: Meritec can trace its 1967 beginning to a company called A P Products Incorporated founded by Meritecâx80x99s current Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, John T. âx80x9cJackâx80x9d Venaleck. Like many entrepreneurs, Jack started the Company in his home when he realized he had a solution to a growing and significant problem in The Electronicsâx80x99 Industry. Using his formal physics and engineering education, his inherent design skills, a drafting board, and a small milling machine he designed, Mr. Venaleck produced and sold the Companyâx80x99s first products, a line of IC Test Clips. These were small, insertâx80x90molded devices used by technicians for testing various sizeâx80x90integrated circuitsâx80x99 packages, that were then new to the burgeoning Electronicsâx80x99 Industry. The IC Test Clip Line solved a significant problem, became immediately successful and is a standard in The Industry today. That first product was followed by a line of âx80x9csolderless electronic breadboardsâx80x9d also used by technicians and engineers to prototype new circuits. It, too, became very successful, and numerous other product lines and thousands of part numbers followed. The Companyâx80x99s internal ability to design, tool, build and sell products that solve significant problems for Customers quickly led to growth into electronic connectors and cable assemblies in the 1970s.

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