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A small but highly efficient team: Cambridge America.
Reliability: the be-all and end-all
Small to medium-sized enterprises are often niche-players that know
their market like the back of their hand. That is certainly true of Cambridge
America, a small, agile, service-focused and successful firm
that operates in the electronics sector. Even though Panalpina is a large
corporation, smaller companies are keen to use its logistics services
because its global network makes it an ideal partner for SMEs.
Cambridge America LLC, located in Branford,
Connecticut (USA), is a distributor and
service provider of Printed Circuit Boards
(PCBs) to customers throughout the United
States and Canada. It focuses on an important
niche in the PCB industry, accommodating
orders involving large numbers of
parts which require specialized service
that many of its larger competitors do not
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provide. Cambridge America has built its
business around this niche and its attention
to this market segment has paid off.
“Our focus is to serve customers who
utilize PCBs that comprise a large number
of parts and which therefore require a
higher level of parts service,” says Bill
Bansavage, President of Cambridge America.
“Many PCB suppliers are more inter-
ested in moving high volumes with customers.
We serve the needs of lower and mid
sized volume customers, with a focus on
excellent service.”
Part of the supply chain
Cambridge America provides prototype,
pre-production and low volume requirements
to US manufacturers and medium to