About Cinch Connectors

Cinch Connectors is a multi-national manufacturer of a broad range of interconnect products. With facilities in North America and Europe, Cinch satisfies the needs of customers the World over. In operation since 1917, Cinch is part of the Safran Group of Companies. Cinch is divided into 2 Business Units located according to the World Markets they serve.

The North American Business Unit is headquartered in Lombard, Illinois, and has manufacturing locations in the United States, and Mexico. The Europe Business Unit has headquarters and manufacturing facilities in England Cinch is a supplier of reliable, high quality standard products for use in a variety of industries.

Cinch is a supplier of reliable, high quality standard products for use in a variety of industries. Cinch also possesses various enabling technologies and expertise, with which to provide custom solutions, and products, for strategic accounts within their focus markets. Those focus markets are the Transportation Market for which a number of leading edge products have been, and continue to be, developed, and the Telecom Market to which Cinch supplies various standard products as well as a number of new, higher speed devices consistent with the rapidly changing needs in this industry. Cinch is also a major supplier of products to the Mil/Aero Market with significant presence in the Commercial Aircraft industry, as well as in the Munitions, Missile, and Satellite Communications segments.

 Cinch supplies a variety of devices to the High End Computer Market with emphasis, to date, on Work Station and Server products for which Cinch's CIN::APSE Technology is the perfect solution to a number of low profile, high speed Microprocessor Socketing needs. Finally, Cinch serves a broad range of other, more mature, commercial markets, largely through our highly efficient Distribution network.

 Their manufacturing operations, located in the United States, Mexico, and England, are vertically integrated and many are registered to ISO 9001, AS-9100 and various customer and Industry Specifications. Cinch product engineering and development activities are carried on in the United States, and England, with the design groups operating from common databases. They employ state-of-the-art 3D solid modeling tools, as well as electrical modeling software, to optimize designs, and shorten the new product development cycle.

About West Coast Engineering

For over 23 years, West Coast Engineering (WCE) has been supplying electronics to OEMs, CEMs and distributors worldwide. Located in Hawthorne California, near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), West Coast Engineering has established itself as a premier independent distributor specializing in providing electronic components for the military, aeronautical, medical, automotive and commercial manufacturing industries. Cinch Connectors is one of the hundreds of manufacturers that WCE carries on its linecard.

WCE has the techology and resources to handle any size transaction, no matter how big or small.

Quick Facts

• Founded: 1984
• Headquarters: Hawthorne, CA
• Other Locations: Futain, Shenzhen ▪ China PRC ▪ Brazil

West Coast Engineering is committed to providing the highest quality service to customers with its large diverse inventory stocked in its ISO9001:2000 and ESD compliant 70,000 sq. ft. warehouse. Year after year, West Coast Engineering has been considered a top independent distributor because of its principled reputation built on longstanding relationships with a dedicated customer base.

WCE's strategies differ from any other independent distributors. Listed below are some of the added measures that WCE takes to make sure that OEMs, CEMs and distributors have peace of mind when placing orders for electornic components, selling excess inventory, forming strategic alliances, and purchasing RoHS or
non-RoHS parts.