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Cohoes, NY – August 2022 – PVA, a global supplier of automated dispensing and coating equipment, today announced plans to exhibit at the SMTA Ohio Valley Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 at the Best Western Plus Strongsville in Ohio. The company will discuss its Valve Tool Changer and 5th Axis Tilt feature.

Regional Sales Manager, Chris Donham will be available to answer questions about coating and dispensing, as well as other application solutions in the PVA line-up such as coating inspection, optical bonding and curing ovens.

PVA’s new Valve Tool Changer feature increases the number of applications each machine can satisfy without sacrificing valuable work area. The Tool Changer can accommodate four additional valves in the machine that can be automatically picked up and used at any time.

The 5th Axis Tilt feature is a motorized programmable tilt that can be configured to adjust to any angle between -50 degrees to 50 degrees. This flexibility allows greater part accessibility for more accurate dispense and spray processes.

PVA is a world-class innovator of high quality, repeatable dispensing and conformal coating systems. The company manufactures turnkey solutions that help customers improve their competitiveness, such as coating inspection, optical bonding and curing ovens.

For more information about PVA, please contact PVA at info@pva.net or (518) 371-2684.

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New Paris, Indiana -- KMC Controls, a specialist in building automation and controls, has invested in a new Ersa Versaflow 335 selective soldering machine.

"The new selective solder machine will increase the accuracy of making solder connections while reducing the amount of time, energy and materials it takes to produce high-quality circuit boards," said Mitch Kehler, CEO of KMC Controls. "That translates into an improved capacity to fulfill orders and keep our commitments to customers.

"In the short term, the new soldering system will help us fill existing orders delayed by global supply chain issues, Kehler continued. In the long term, the SSM will help us return to the Just-in-Time manufacturing KMC Controls is known for."

PCB West: The leading technical conference and exhibition for electronics engineers. Coming Oct. 4-7 to the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center. pcbwest.com

Washington D.C., August 2022

Dr. Jennie Hwang is appointed the Chairman of Laboratory Assessment Board of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Dr. Jennie S. Hwang is appointed the Chairman of Laboratory Assessment Board of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The National Academies). The primary focus of The Laboratory Assessment Board is to oversee The National Academies activities involving review and assessment of the technical quality and impact of research conducted at federal, national laboratories and other research enterprises. Assessments are performed by the National Academies committees appointed under the auspices of the Laboratory Assessment Board and established separately for each institution and/or laboratory to be reviewed.

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4 August 2022 ― Cranston, Rhode Island USA – AIM Solder, a leading global manufacturer of solder assembly materials for the electronics industry, is pleased to announce their participation in the upcoming SMTA Querétaro Chapter Expo, taking place on August 18th at Mision Grand Juriquilla. AIM will highlight V9, their new ultra-low-voiding, no clean paste, along with their full line of solder assembly materials.

Formulated to solve one of the industry’s most difficult challenges, V9 has proven to reduce voiding to as low as 1% on BGA and <5% on BTC components while exhibiting stable print performance on fine feature devices over 12 hours. V9 post-process residue is easily probed and possesses high SIR values required for high reliability applications.

To discover all of AIM’s products and services, visit the company at the SMTA Querétaro Expo on August 18th for more information and to speak with one of AIM’s knowledgeable staff members, or visit www.aimsolder.com.

About AIM

Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, AIM Solder is a leading global manufacturer of assembly materials for the electronics industry with manufacturing, distribution and support facilities located throughout the world. AIM produces advanced solder products such as solder paste, liquid flux, cored wire, bar solder, epoxies, lead-free and halogen-free solder products, and specialty alloys such as indium and gold for a broad range of industries. A recipient of many prestigious SMT industry awards, AIM is strongly committed to innovative research and development of product and process improvement as well as providing customers with superior technical support, service, and training. For more information about AIM’s complete line of advanced solder products and global technical services, please visit www.aimsolder.com.

PCB West: The leading technical conference and exhibition for electronics engineers. Coming Oct. 4-7 to the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center. pcbwest.com

August 4, 2022 - Haverhill, MA USA - Gold plating removal from the solderable surfaces of electronic components is required for many electronic components due to gold embrittlement concerns. The ideal method to facilitate the removal of gold plating from SMT and through-hole components is to use a robotic hot solder dipping (RHSD) process. This new technical paper by Circuit Technology Center discusses the key process steps of this highly specialized process.

See the full paper at: https://www.circuitrework.com/features/1063.html

Circuit Technology Center, founded in 1979, continues to be recognized as the most innovative and reliable specialist in circuit board damage repair, rework, BGA re-balling and component level modification services in the world.

PCB West: The leading technical conference and exhibition for electronics engineers. Coming Oct. 4-7 to the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center. pcbwest.com

Tokyo, Japan – August 3, 2022 – Saki Corporation, an innovator in the field of automated optical and X-ray inspection equipment, is delighted to announce two new Sales & Business Development leadership promotions. From August 1st, Mr. Eddie Ichiyama, former Senior General Manager Asia, is heading up all overseas sales operations as Chief Sales Manager for Overseas. Mr. Ken Katsumi, former Senior Sales Manager Japan, has taken over the role of Chief Sales Manager. Effective August 1st, a new Overseas Sales Headquarters was incorporated into the worldwide sales structure. The sales organization is now composed of two divisions: the Overseas Sales Headquarter, which looks after all overseas markets outside of Japan, and the Sales Headquarter, which is largely responsible for customer relations in Japan and the sales promotion functions of the head office.

Saki is now strengthening its global sales operations with the promotion of Mr. Eddie Ichiyama and Mr. Ken Katsumi. In their new roles as Chief Sales Managers, they will play a key role in driving forward the unique inspection capability of Saki’s advanced range of high-quality automated inspection systems for 3D Solder Paste Inspection (SPI), 2D/3D Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and Automated X-ray Inspection (AXI) to customers worldwide - all supported by a reliable and efficient global delivery, technical support and service promise.

Norihiro Koike, President and CEO of Saki Corporation said: "Eddie has established a business foundation in China as the head of our subsidiary in Shanghai, China, followed by his outstanding contribution to business expansion in the European region as General Manager at Saki Europe. He then shifted his focus to Asia to expand a pan-Asian sales infrastructure within a larger framework. Ken has steadily built up a record of sales results in Japan, including Tier 1 customers in the automotive industry. The promotion of Eddie and Ken to Chief Sales Managers for their respective areas further reflects our commitment to continuously strengthen our skilled team to help meet the growing global demand for Saki products & solutions."

For further information about Saki, visit www.sakicorp.com/en/.