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Indium Corp. (Binghamton, NY) now offers flux-coated solder preforms to support the optimization of electronic assembly processes.
According to the company, flux-coated solder preforms offer several advantages over plain solder preforms, including: improved process time—using the pre-applied, fused flux, the preforms eliminate the need to add flux as an additional process step—and improved accuracy since the process fuses precise amounts of flux onto each solder preform. The system also reduces variability by eliminating process steps and by improving the consistency and accuracy of the flux quantity.
Flux coatings are available in no-clean formulations and the solder preforms are produced in a large range of sizes and shapes, to precisely suit each requirement.
Indium Corp. is a supplier of electronics assembly materials, including solder pastes, solder preforms, fluxes, lead-free solder alloys, underfill materials and die-attach materials. The company is also a supplier of commercial grade and high-purity indium.
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Asymtek (Carlsbad, CA), a Nordson company, was named a recipient of Intel Corp.'s 2003 Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award, Intel's highest honor for its suppliers, for outstanding commitment to quality and performance by suppliers that provide products and services deemed essential to Intel's success. The company was given the award for its efforts in supplying Intel with automated fluid dispensing equipment.
Henkel Technologies (Industry, CA) was also named a recipient of Intel Corp.'s Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for its efforts in supplying Intel with die attach adhesive and underfill.
The SCQI and PQS award winners were honored at a celebration in Burlingame, CA, on March 23. Intel also recognized award winners with an advertisement in the U.S., Europe and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal.
"Congratulations to Asymtek, who has moved up from being a 2002 Preferred Quality Supplier winner to this year earning Intel's highest supplier award the SCQI award," said Randy Bollig, Intel director ATCED. "Being flexible and responsive to our dynamic needs while executing flawlessly earned Asymtek the SCQI award. Working with Asymtek this past year has been a pleasure as they met or exceeded all of their commitments."
Robert L. Ciardella, president of Asymtek, said, "Given the adverse business climate of the past 12 months, the additional effort which was required to move from the PQS to SCQI award level is a true measure of Asymtek's continued commitment to Intel and our entire customer base."
"Henkel Technologies appreciates the opportunity in working with Intel," said Pat Trippel, president of Henkel Technologies' Electronics Group. "Working with Intel has improved our manufacturing and development capabilities allowing Henkel Technologies to be a better supplier to the industry. We look forward to continuing to work with Intel and strive to attain SCQI."
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.
Asymtek supplies automated fluid dispensing systems to customers worldwide, specializing in semiconductor, surface-mount and electronics packaging applications.
Henkel Technologies Electronic Materials Group provides adhesives, sealants and solders for electronics packaging and assembly applications, and specializes in printed circuit boards for products such as cell phones and computers.
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Advanced Circuits (Aurora, CO), a quick-turn printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer with real-time customer service, again experienced record growth in a down economy and an industry that has been declining for several years.
Although the PCB industry in the U.S. shrank 40% from 2001 through 2003, Advanced Circuits grew more than 15% each year during that time. Exceeding its goals for 2003, the company ended the year with more than $27.5 million in revenues.
"At a time when the U.S. PCB market is losing business to manufacturers overseas, we created a niche for ourselves in the prototype PCB market when we developed a system for building small quantity, quick-turn prototypes with a low premium price," said Ron Huston, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Circuits.
The company invested more than $5 million in capital into equipment and facilities in 2003, including a 62,000 sq. ft. office and manufacturing facility. Investments have already been planned for $500,000 worth of additional equipment in 2004. The company added 15 employees in 2003, bringing its total to 195, which includes three shifts in production and multiple shifts in other departments.
Advanced Circuits has gained an average of more than 200 new customers a month for the past three years. The company attributes its tremendous growth and customer retention to reliability and the customer-focused attitude of the entire staff. To time-pressed design engineers, the fact that Advanced Circuits delivers more than 99% of their boards on time or early is a significant quality in a manufacturer.
To ensure that this growth continues in years to come, a full-time professional marketing and training staff have been added to the Advanced Circuits team. Huston is also showing appreciation to the employees that made this success possible by treating the entire staff to an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas, NV, over Memorial Day weekend.
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