NEWMAN LAKE, WA – Hentec Industries/RPS Automation, a leading manufacturer of selective soldering, component lead tinning and solderability testing equipment, is pleased to announce that Stacey Jones has joined the company as Purchasing Agent. Ms. Jones is responsible for spare parts orders, strategic sourcing, and coordinating all customer shipments. Jones will be working closely with the entire team to continue to provide the high-level customer service that Hentec/RPS is known for.

Prior to joining Hentec/RPS, Jones served as Area Branch Operations Manager at Airgas and the Head of Sales at Airgas Fairbanks Alaska. During her tenure at Airgas, Jones helped the company track inventory, budget market growth, and drive customer service. Jones is a graduate of UAGC, where she majored in Business Operations and Analysis.

“Hentec is thrilled to have Stacey join our team, as she brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the role of Purchasing Agent,” stated Tara Pratt, Office Manager for Hentec Industries/RPS Automation. “We are excited to see Stacey apply her experience to the position and see what amazing things she will achieve at Hentec”, added Pratt.

NASHVILLE – KYZEN, the global leader in innovative environmentally friendly cleaning chemistries, will exhibit at the SMTA Oregon Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, June 8, 2023 in Wilsonville, Oregon. The KYZEN team will spotlight the KYZEN Process Control System (PCS), the world’s first and only concentration monitoring and control system, in addition to the award-winning aqueous solutions AQUANOX A4625 and AQUANOX A4626.

The KYZEN PCS controls, monitors, and automatically reacts to the dynamic changes in the wash bath concentration. Since its introduction more than 20 years ago, the capabilities of the KYZEN PCS have continued to improve and advance in the mission of maximizing high- quality output from inline cleaning systems.

AQUANOX A4625 is a highly effective, dispersive cleaning agent with excellent material compatibility designed to clean electronic assemblies in spray-in-air cleaning equipment. It excels in low concentrations and temperatures with proven effectiveness on more than 90% of solder pastes currently in production with additional use in cleaning lead-free and no-clean flux types.

The environmentally-friendly AQUANOX A4626 is reliable with a long tank life and is designed to efficiently remove the latest polymeric no-clean flux residues. The multi-pass, application-safe aqueous spray also delivers excellent results on traditional lead-free and eutectic tin lead residues.

For over 30 years, KYZEN has been developing innovative chemistries that go hand-in-hand with your cleaning process. The KYZEN PCS and solutions such as AQUANOX A4626 combine to create a worry-free process that just makes sense.

For more information, visit www.kyzen.com 

MAHARASHTRA, INDIA – Abhay Doshi, Managing Director of Fine-Line Circuits Ltd has announced that his company will be exhibiting at this year’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS) to be held June 11-17 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. (Booth 1713)

It is Fine-Line’s Mission to provide PCBs and PCBAs that deliver to the customer the RF performance they expect. We achieve this by working with every customer from the start : Material Selection, Design Optimization and Final Simulation, Material Stocking, PCB fabrication, PCBA assembly to ensure the expected precise RF performance.

When making this announcement  Mr. Doshi said, “This is an excellent symposium and exhibition for us as we continue to increase our share of PCB supplies to the RF market. For a number of years now have been focused on RF and Microwave Systems requirements and the IMS 2023 symposium gives us the opportunity to talk to other like- minded individuals about this growing segment of the Electronics market. We look forward to meeting and talking with potential partners and customers in San Diego in June.”

Fine-Line Circuits will exhibiting in Booth 1713 its expertise on providing the ideal Surface finish for RF Microwave PCBs – Electrolytic Thick Gold Direct on Copper which gives a great skin and no Nickel related signal losses giving the designer the precise RF performance that the System is designed for.

Fine-Line has built a variety of PCB boards (Hybrids, Cavities, Copper back, Oversized PCBs) for a variety of Space and Defense Applications and a variety of Systems (Satcoms, Radar, Antennae, Dividers, Amplifiers…)

MILPITAS, CA – FlexTech, a SEMI Technology Community focused on driving flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) innovations, today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for advances in innovative materials, FHE design tools, additive-enabled processing, hybrid electronics packaging, FHE manufacturing, AI/ML applications, soft robotics, and power solutions. Selected projects will receive cash awards ranging from $250,000 to $1 million. The program is funded by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

Organizations submitting proposals will be evaluated based on their capabilities, experience, and strengths including team diversity. See the SEMI FlexTech 2023 Request for Proposals for more details on the evaluation process.

White paper submissions, the first step in responding to the RFP, are due June 5, 2023. To help organizations prepare their proposals, FlexTech staff will review the RFP topics and the submission and review process during a live webinar on May 25, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. PDT. The webinar is open to organizations considering submitting a proposal. A recording will be available for registrants unable to attend the event. Registration for the event is open.

Following the review of white papers by the RFP Review Committee, consisting of FlexTech Council members and other subject matter experts (SMEs), FlexTech will invite selected organizations to submit full proposals. The evaluation criteria include:

• Rationale
• Budget
• Collaboration value
• Dual-use (industry and military) applicability
• Relevance to the FHE ecosystem
• Schedules and milestones
• Reasonable and stretch deliverables
• Overall proposal quality

FlexTech supports technical approaches that are revolutionary or have a significant element of risk, as well as approaches that are evolutionary improvements upon existing capability, which tend to be less risky and involve shorter development and delivery intervals. Research and development efforts funded by FlexTech are in the U.S. government’s Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL).

FlexTech encourages partnerships among industrial companies, R&D organizations, and university teams. ARL funding will be matched with contributions by grant recipients to cover the total project cost. Development partners retain ownership of intellectual property developed under FlexTech contracts.