GCT's products are produced to stringent manufacturing and process control, including insert molded contacts and insulators. This process offers a high level of product strength and prevention from terminals crumpling, unlike some competitors using hand inserted contacts, which are more liable to crumple under mating. Insert molding also offer guaranteed co-planarity of SMT leads and alignment of DIP pins.

Another feature of the GCT Type C design is drawn metal inner shells on horizontal products (excluding ionex), the inner shell is created by pulling metal into shape, when formed it creates a shell without any seams or holes. To offer superior EMI performance the horizontal products have a dual shell, the outer shell is pressed and formed in a conventional way, it contains a seam and elements are cut out to form shell stakes, which hold the part in place during processing and provide strength on PCB post solder processing. The inner shell then become the main seamless barrier to protect from EMI interference. The drawn inner shell also provides greater strength in very high mating cycle applications, the seam being a likely weak point.

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