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Karl Pfluke has been promoted to the position of market development specialist at the Indium Corp. of America (Utica, NY).
Pfluke, a degreed Manufacturing Engineering Technologist, is certified as both a Powder Metallurgy Technologist with MPIF and a Process Engineer with the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA, Minneapolis, MN). He is an active member of the IPC Solder Alloy Standards Development Group and has presented numerous technical papers.
Pfluke has worked at Indium for three years as a technical support engineer and has experience with the full range of interconnect materials and processes. He will remain based at the company¹s corporate headquarters in New York.
Indium Corp. is supplier of electronics assembly materials, including solder pastes, solder preforms, fluxes, lead-free solder alloys, underfill materials and die-attach materials. Factories are located in North America, Europe and Asia.
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AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC), a manufacturer of electronic passive components, has landed on Mars. The company announced their contribution to the Mars exploration rover, Spirit, and its twin rover, Opportunity, that successfully drove onto Martian soil last weekend. AVX supplied their CYR20 glass-dielectric capacitors in the mission critical rover lift actuator (RLA) and lander petal actuator (LPA) circuits. AVX has a long-standing relationship with NASA's space programs and has supplied passive components for many missions over the past 20 years.
The fused monolithic construction of the capacitors provide selectrical performance, environmental immunity, stability and retraceability, making them ideal for mission critical applications. The devices are designed to withstand extremely high and low temperatures and exposure to radiation.
The capacitors used in the rover played a vital role in the RLA and LPA electronics. The circuits enable the lander to open and adjust its petals and enable the lift mechanism to raise the rover so its wheels can be deployed to drive onto Martian terrain.
Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-CALTECH.
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DEK (Flemington, NJ), a high accuracy mass imaging solutions provider, has announced representative changes in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California regions. DEK's offerings have expanded over the last two years and this growth has resulted in the need for a change in representation in a few select regions.
In the Pacific Northwest, DEK will now be represented by Systems Specialists Inc., an industry leader and representative for many major brands. The 27-year old organization prides itself on superior customer service and technical support and, in their new relationship, will represent DEK in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
DEK has also announced a representative change in Southern California. Competitive Edge Manufacturing Equipment (CEME) will now represent DEK's complete product line in this territory. CEME will represent DEK in the Southern California counties of San Louis Obispo, Kern, San Bernadino, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial and in Baja, Mexico.
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