18 Dec
2011
18 Dec
'11
5:30 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:14:22AM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 18 Dec 2011 at 19:46, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Hmm, from the names I'd guess that's pure american.
He was loughing loudly, Frolyt builds
electrolytics here since ages..
The recipe of the electrolyte is top secret.
It's amazing to me that in my entire life, I have never run across a
Frolyt capacitor. Until the rise of China and Japan, it has been
brands such as Sprague, Cornell-Duplier, Electrovox, Mallory, etc. Afterwards, Nichicon, Elna and the other usual
suspects.
Sure. How many made-in-the-eastern-bloc capacitors did you see at all?
Probably very, very few ;-)
Frolyt must be very specialized.
Well, according to their website, only 30% of their revenue is from export,
so they mostly sell to customers in germany (and, at a guess, probably mostly
industrial customers at that). Founded in 1947 in what was then east germany,
I would not be surprised if a significant fraction of their foreign customers
was to be found toward the east (eastern europe and russia).
As a general rule, those east german companies that survived the 1989
re-unification as an independent company tended to be very, very good
at what they were doing.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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