Company

Why Caltron

Our mission at Caltron Components is to bring the highest level of sales and engineering support throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada on behalf of the world-class manufacturers we represent. Caltron specializes in system solution selling within the categories of active semiconductors, lighting, passive components, power electronics, electro-mechanical and interconnect. Everyday the Caltron organization utilizes a digital tool box of sales solutions such as Repfabric CRM, Microsoft Power BI and Social Media to deliver for our manufacturers on our tag line,
“We Bridge Ideas to Solutions!”

Our Story

Founded in 1964 as an independent manufacturer representative by the late Hugo Shane, Caltron Components has continued its success by evolving from a world of analog technology to the modern digital ecosystem. Along the way, Centaur North and Heaton Co. merged their quality companies into Caltron, bringing with them manufacturers and experienced personnel, to become a key part of our history and contemporary DNA. Today, Caltron’s largest customers include Apple, Lockheed Martin, Tesla, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Roku, Microsoft, Maxar Space, GoPro, Cisco, IGT and countless more. Primary channel application categories covered by the Caltron sales team includes: Transportation & Energy, Military/Aerospace, Network & Telephony, IoT Consumer Products, Semiconductor and Industrial-Medical.