Northwest Aerospace News October | November Issue No. 11 | Page 32

Quality Electronics: LIFEBLOOD OF QUALITEL R By Robin Bishop 32 NORTHWEST AEROSPACE NEWS eminiscent of one of the world’s most favorite tech companies, Qualitel orig- inated in Tuanhai Hoang’s family garage in Redmond, Washington in 1986. AC Technology began as a tech hand-soldering assembly company, but in 1995 when Tuanhai took over the family business he launched a precise and high-tech printed circuit board (PCB) assembly business, moving it to Everett, Washington in 2008.