ROCHESTER, NY -- Hover-Davis Inc., a provider of component feeders, will exclusively distribute the Laurier tray feeding product family to the worldwide end-user market. Terms were not disclosed.
Laurier’s OEM product offerings includes automated handling of JEDEC trays and
waffle packs.
"Our target is to offer a comprehensive
set of feeding solutions to the market,” said Roland Heitmann, Hover
Davis director of semiconductor feeding solutions. “By adding
the capability of handling JEDEC trays and waffle packs, we take
another significant step to being a complete feeding solution provider
for our customers.”
Laurier, part of Besi, manufactures back-end microelectronic assembly equipment.
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estimated $3 billion of manufacturing to the EMS industry and sells
roughly $2.5 billion annually of hardware through Arrow and Avnet,
according to Deutsche Bank.