Hybricon Corporation

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Hybricon Corporation
Type Subsidiary
Industry Defense and Aerospace
Founded1976
FateAcquired
Headquarters
Littleton, Massachusetts
,
United States
ProductsCustom Enclosures and Backplanes
Number of employees
100
Parent Celestica
Website www.hybricon.com

Hybricon Corporation is a provider of systems packaging serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end Industrial markets and develops embedded computing systems using OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VMEbus, VME64X, CompactPCI, rugged MicroTCA, and custom bus structures.

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History

Charles Michael Hayward, who was born in Argentina in 1928, started a consulting business in his basement in 1976, and incorporated as Hybricon Corporation in 1978 as business grew. [1] They were originally located in Littleton, Massachusetts, and sold wire wrap products by 1979. [2] In September 2000, Paul R. Freve was appointed as president, after Hayward served for 22 years. [3]

Hybricon is a member of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) through 2008, [4] VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA), [5] and member of the OpenVPX Industry Working Standards Group when it formed in 2009. [6] Hybricon along with Curtiss-Wright were the first to demonstrate a live OpenVPX System at the trade show Milcom in Boston in October 2009. The system included an OpenVPX backplane in a Hybricon SFF-4 Small Form Factor conduction-cooled chassis with Curtiss-Wright Control small form factor 3U cards. [7]

In 2010, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems acquired Hybricon for $19 million in cash. At the time it was based in Ayer, Massachusetts. It became the engineered packaging business unit. [8] Hybricon was estimated to have $17 million per year in sales at the time. [9] By the end of 2010. it announced a thermal management technology called CoolWall. [10]

In 2015, Atrenne Integrated Solutions acquired the assets of Hybricon from Curtiss-Wright. [11] [12] Based in Minneapolis, Atrenne was formed in 2014 from a merger of AbelConn Electronics, CBT Technology, Photo Etch, and SIE Computing Solutions. It was led by Jan Erik Mathiesen at the time. [13] In April, 2018, Toronto-based Celestica acquired Atrenne, after announcing the agreement in January. [14]

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