Founded in New Jersey in 1979, NTE Electronics, Inc has grown from a small-town supplier with ten replacement parts in its entire line to the largest replacement semiconductor supplier in the industry.

Today, our semiconductor line alone consists of over 4,500 NTE replacement semiconductors. Also available under the NTE brand are Relays, Resistors, Capacitors, Hook-up Wire, Heat Shrink Tubing and our latest addition, a new line of Switches.

In January 2001 NTE acquired the assets of the ECG division of Philips N.A. With this addition, NTE became the industry leader in supplying private label aftermarket electronic components to the Industrial, Commercial, Consumer, and MRO marketplace. Also added as a result of this acquisition were ECG Aerosol Chemicals and Butane, ECG Surge Suppressor Outlet Strips, ECG Butane/Electric soldering and Heat Guns, ECG Antenna Rotors and ECG Test Equipment.

Over the years NTE has also become a Master Distributor for some major manufacturers of electronic components and accessories. These alliances now include:

Amphenol RF/Connex - interconnect products

CML (Chicago Miniature Lighting)

Coast LED Flashlights

Kester Solder Products

KILO International - knobs/dials

Precision Electronic Components Ltd. - military style potentiometers

ProVision - fiber optic inspection scopes

Psiber - CableTool Multi-Function Cable Meter

Spectrol, div Vishay, Potentiometers/Trimmers/Knobs/Dials

Stancor - power transformers

Scrubs - waterless hand cleaner towels

Techspray - electronic chemicals

Unicom - structured cabling solutions

NTE's 40,000 square foot headquarters in Bloomfield, NJ houses, under one roof, all the essential services and inventory to continually supply electronic components to its worldwide network of authorized distributors. NTE's warehouse maintains a large inventory of each device to ensure a 98% fill rate and an average 24-hour shipping time.

NTE devices are quality tested to consistently assure that they meet or exceed the industry specifications of the device they are replacing. They have been used in NASA space projects, German automobiles, hospital/medical applications and in virtually every type of consumer item. NTE's global network of distributors extends across the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and 49 other countries throughout the world.

No matter how you measure success, NTE Electronics, Inc has become the leader in the replacement electronic component industry in the past decade. Growth is most evident in the expansion of NTE's sales territory and product line but can also be seen in its visionary marketing move from traditional paper catalog to the industries first PC-based electronic cross reference, QUICKCross™. NTE's QUICKCross™ software can assist users in selecting the proper NTE replacement device from over three-quarters of a million industry device numbers in about a second.