In its full-year report for 2023, ITSA members remain optimistic, despite a tough year.

In its Q1 report for 2023, ITSA members have seen a 12% overall growth in sales, despite a decline in both the communications and mass transport markets.

ITSA members have enjoyed a strong start to 2023 with most technologies and markets performing well and revenues up 12% against Q4 of 2022 and ahead of the same time last year, however, bookings slowed again and BtoB was flat at 1.0:1.

UK interconnect companies are reporting no signs of a let up in a booming market.

Orders up 60%, sales up 40 %. That’s the upbeat message from ITSA (Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association) in Q1 2022.

UK connector sales hit record numbers in 2021, as the sector enjoyed what has been described as “a bumper year,” by John Biggs, Chairman of the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA).

Business is booming in the UK connector market says the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA).

Like everyone, members of ITSA the UK’s Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association were extremely glad to see the back of 2020. Now, with a Brexit deal done – ‘The jury is out on that one’ said ITSA Chairman John Biggs – and increasing confidence in the vaccine programme, 2021 has all the makings of a year where the connector industry will make up some of the losses experienced during the first nine or ten months ...

Back in August we reported that, while the easing of the COVID 19 lockdown had many positive benefits, the pandemic would continue to have an ongoing and negative impact on the UK electronics and connectors industry. Just over three months later, the numbers reported by ITSA members for the third quarter clearly demonstrate how significant the impact has been. News that a vaccine could be available by the end of the year was a single major plus i...

While some aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown have been eased, the crisis continues to have a major impact on the UK electronics industry and what many describe as a perfect storm is gathering to really challenge the UK. As well as the pandemic, there’s BREXIT to consider and the potential fallout from the current tensions between the US and China.

It has taken just a little under three months to turn what had the real potential to be a positive 2020 for the UK connector industry into one that has shaken every business to the core. The shutdown in China, for example, has had a significant effect on the supply chain while the dramatic changes in commodity prices will have an obvious impact on materials and manufacturing as well as incoming costs and outgoing prices.

At a gathering in London, John Biggs, Chairman of the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA), and a selection of association members, explained how ITSA exists as the voice of the industry and what it can offer to its members.