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Overview of AVG, USA

AVG, an American Group of companies, is vertically integrated to design and manufacture state of the art electronic products, cost effectively, for the best Return On Investment for our customers.

Significant Highlights and Core Competencies..

• Established in 1968, AVG Companies have introduced more than 500 innovative new products.
• Extensive hardware, firmware & software design capability, in Illinois & Iowa.
• Hold 20+ Patents & 15 New Pending
• Has an installed base of over $1 Billion in fortune 500 companies such as Ford, GM, P&G, Abbot, Miller, & IBM.
• PCB fabrication.
• 2 EMS Plants for Complete Turn Key Assembly & Box Build.
• Thick Film Hybrids.
• One of the largest semi-conductor FABs.
• Known for “Uticor Tough,” High Reliability, HALT-HASS ed Products, designed to operate in harsh industrial environments.
• In the fore-front of High Technology such as BGA and controlled impedance high density board products.
• AVG Automation division of AVG is marketed under Uticor, Autotech and Autotech Controls brands and trade names.

Uticor, IA - Established 1968
http://www.uticor.net/

Uticor, formerly Struthers Dunn Systems division, has been in the forefront of PLC, welding controls, message displays and operator interface technology since 1968.

Uticor, in fact, was one of the early inventors of PLCs back in 1968. It held numerous patents on PLCs, then called Process Control Computers.

In the 1970's, Uticor applied it's PLC technology to welding controls and became one of the top suppliers of this technology to the Automotive industry. In fact, Uticor provided university research grants in collaboration with Ford in this area.

In the 1980's, Uticor became known as the premier supplier of Message Displays and Marquees in North America. It's large LED marquees became an Automotive standard. Uticor always had a very conservative design philosophy and it showed in its products and thus earned worldwide recognition as “Built Like a Tank” or “Uticor Tough”.

AVG's Autotech division was the inventor of the first microprocessor based Programmable Limit Switch. In fact Autotech was the first company to coin the phrase “PLS” for replacing electro-mechanical cam-banks. Autotech has always lived by its tradition of being the most innovative company in the field of Automation controls.