LONDON, UK: Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS) announced that Kingfield Electronics Limited has appointed Microsaic as an Authorised Partner for front-end research, development, and engineering product development in scientific instrumentation and micro-engineering adding these complementary services to its existing offering of fully integrated turnkey solutions, box build, printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”), commissioning, final test, service, retrofit and world-wide shipping logistics.

Kingfield Electronics has a 37-year heritage delivering microelectronic turnkey contract manufacturing solutions, certified to AS9100 standard, with clients across commercial and military aerospace, defence applications on land, sea and air, oil & petrochemical, medical device, process manufacturing and scientific instrumentation industries. Kingfield currently supplies outsourced manufacturing to the Company for its microelectronic component instrumentation and assembly.

This new partnership represents a further opportunity for Microsaic to provide additional services leveraging its considerable expertise in high quality technical design, engineering and solutions delivery, as it continues to diversify its income streams.

Gerry Brandon, Acting Executive Chairman of Microsaic Systems plc, commented: “Microsaic welcomes the opportunity to work with Kingfield and support their clients with our 20-year history of microelectronics design to commercialisation expertise. This upstream value-added service of front-end research, development and engineering design, complemented with pilot line manufacture, to validate manufacturability and scalability prior to transfer to Kingfield as the volume manufacturer, is a commercially perfect fit.”

Nick Taylor, Managing Director of Kingfield Electronics Limited, commented: “Kingfield works with some of the world’s leading and most innovative technology companies who demand inherently high reliability at mission critical level, exceptional levels of quality and consistency. Microsaic has a proven record of designing highly sensitive process instrumentation and laser-based microelectronic equipment. We look forward to rolling out this unique complementary service addition over time across our diverse portfolio of industry clients.”