Partnership leads French market to focus on selling boards and modules

The sales partnership significantly expands Kontron's presence in France in the industrial automation, healthcare, energy and infotainment sectors. Astone supports Kontron's increased commitment in France by adding 20 specialised sales engineers.

Franco Genovese, Channel Director EMEA at Kontron S&T AG said: "Astone is ideally positioned to represent Kontron in France through its focus on industrial computers, M2M and IoT as well as HMIs. We chose Astone because we value their expertise and experience in the French market very highly. Astone will support us in raising the level of awareness of our embedded PCs as well as our Embedded Cloud vision including Edge and Fog computing in France, and making the corresponding products available. Customers will receive local support throughout our product's complete lifecycle from Astone. We look forward to the cooperation."

Patrick Bettsworth, Embedded Product Manager at Astone added: "By adding Kontron's products, we have expanded our portfolio to include boards, modules and systems for industrial applications. Our customers from all industries will receive solutions making them ready for challenges such as IoT, Edge and Fog computing. We are happy of the partnership with a leading provider of Embedded Computing and IoT such as Kontron. Customers in the French market will now receive the high-level service and support they've come to expect of us for their Kontron products as well."