Saitek
Saitek is an electronics company with headquarters in Hong Kong, which was founded in 1979 by the Swiss Eric Winkler. Saitek was established for the development and production of electronic equipment, starting was the development of a chess computer. There are branches in the United States, in Europe in France, Britain and Germany, in Hong Kong and in China directly, the German subsidiary is located in Munich.
Saitek today consists of two independent business areas, developed to one of the Saitek EMS, electronic devices and manufactures, and on the other from the distributor for the products manufactured under the brand Saitek.
Saitek
Since 1993 Saitek sales accessories for computer games, such as gamepads, mice, keyboards, joysticks, force feedback steering wheels, pedals for flight simulators, Webcams, headsets. Since 2005, PC speakers belong to the distribution program. Several of these peripherals is also available in wireless or especially for mobile use suitable design.
Chess computers under the brand name Mephisto belong in different sizes, equipment and abilities to the program, since 1994 the German Saitek chess computer manufacturers Hegener & Glaser took over.
The latest series of Saitek Cyborg ie input devices. As a special feature it has various customization options. Thus, for example the length of the mouse to be adjusted to the preferences of the user.
Saitek was taken over by the U.S. company Mad Catz 2007.
Saitek EMS
From Saitek also an EMS company was created, which also occurs to 2007 under the name Saitek. Since the sale of trademark rights to Mad Catz, the company Ryder Industries is called.
The spectrum ranges from the contract manufacturing of printed circuit boards to the development, optimization, production, testing and distribution logistics for electronic devices. These 70 development engineers are employed. Software and firmware development are also possible within the scope of the project implementation.
1980 branches were established in the United States and Great Britain in 1985 was a first factory in Hong Kong ready for production. In 1990 the planning for an additional production facility in Shenzhen, a special economic zone in the adjacent Hong Kong Guangdong Province in China, which was founded in 1991. 2002, the second factory in Shenzhen to operate on, there are now a total of 23,000 m² of production space.
The production facility in Shenzen Saitek is certified by TÜV Rheinland with ISO 9002 since 1996, took place in the years 2003 and 2004, the certification of ISO 9001, QS 9000 and ISO 14000, a production in accordance with the RoHS Directive is possible.