HERNDON, VA - The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative’s(iNEMI’s) workshop on the availability of SnPb-compatible BGAs, originally scheduled for January 24, has been moved to March 1. Hosted by Hewlett-Packard, the workshop will occur at its Cupertino, CA campus.
The workshop is intended to facilitate discussion among high-reliability electronic product manufacturers and makers of electronic components manufactured in ball grid array (BGA) packages.
iNEMI’s SnPb BGA Availability Task Group has assembled information that will be shared with BGA device makers, including a list of critical BGA component families; estimated total available market (TAM) for these devices in SnPb assembly versions; a general business case based on TAM; and scenarios to support this critical market need until reliability issues are resolved for high-reliability, long-life electronic assemblies.
WESTLAKE, OH – Nordson Corp. this week finalized
its acquisition of Dage Holdings Ltd.
Nordson
paid £117,005,613 for the testing and inspection equipment manufacturer, which
had revenues of approximately $59 million during the 12-month period ending
Oct. 31.
Nordson
also owns Asymtek, March Plasma Systems and EFD, among others.
The deal
was announced in mid November.
Dage makes
bond testing and digital x-ray systems.
CLINTON, NY - Indium Corp. named BarTron as sales representative for Michigan.
BarTron is responsible for the sales and service of Indium’s electronics assembly materials such as solder paste, preforms, wire, ribbon, and foil; rework, wave, and liquid fluxes; underfill; flux cored wire; solder spheres; epoxy; and bar solder.
BarTron has extensive technical and customer service experience and a wide-ranging line card that aligns with Indium's soldering products.