Schalksmühle/Cloppenburg, 25.9.2015. The partnership between Lumberg, a family-run manufacturer of quality connectors and Semtech GmbH based in Altdorf-Ludersheim, a distributor of electronic components, boasted its 30^th anniversary last year already. At the time, Lumberg celebrated its 50^th anniversary, Lumberg’s first branch in USA was formed, Boris Becker won his first Wimbledon title – and Franz Spiegler, the founder of Semtech, debuted Lumberg products for the Nuremberg region in his product range. A handshake sealed the beginning.

Reason enough for Lumberg to recognize this long-standing and close business relationship with a special award. With its Recognition of Excellence award, presented for the fourth time since 2012, the Lumberg Group honored the close ties between the two businesses in Germany. “30 years is a long time. The trial period ended a long time ago with a positive outcome and we have grown together not only in economic terms, but our contact with each other and our mutual dependability are success factors that mark this long-standing cooperation”, so the summary of Meike Schmidt, managing partner of the Lumberg Group. “Semtech has been handling a growing number of complex projects, and has moved into our ranking of top ten distributors”, added Peter Maffei, Sales Manager Global Sales Distribution of Lumberg Connect while handing-over the bronze statue made exclusively for Semtech to Anton Schmid, authorized signatory at Semtech, as well Jakob Pröpster and Marco Raab from Sales/Field Service at Lumberg’s headquarters. The hand-over took place at the end of a two-day trip which took the Semtech team from the largest production site of the Lumberg Group in Cloppenburg and its main facility in Schalksmühle to the headquarters.

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