Acal Components has announced the appointment of Louise Early as general manager for passive components, inductive components and battery product lines. Early will head a team selling a strong mix of products, which includes the ACT range of batteries, the complete spectrum of aircraft industry capacitors and aero industry resistors, as well as inductive products such as baluns, coils, EMC filters, transformers, ferrite cores and chip beads. She brings nine years of experience in component distribution, during which she has focussed on passive and electromechanical products, both in field-sales and product-management roles. Most recently Early was business-development manager for power products within the UK division of Deltron. Her experience includes design support for customers with applications in the power, industrial, automotive and communications markets.