Plymouth, WI — March 2022 — Kurtz Ersa Inc., a leading supplier of electronics production equipment is pleased to announce that it has hired Ian Orpwood as its North American Director of Sales-Soldering Tools and Equipment. Orpwood comes to Ersa from OK International, a Dover Company, where he served as their Global Director of Sales for the last number of years. Prior to that, Ian worked for Pemro Distribution and Future Electronics. In his previous positions, working in distribution for 10 years and with a manufacturer for 12 years, Orpwood worked closely with end customers, manufacturers reps and distributors to find solutions through collaboration and relationship building. These are key pillars of Kurtz Ersa philosophy and go to market plans.

NASHVILLE — March 2022 — KYZEN, the global leader in innovative environmentally friendly cleaning chemistries, will exhibit at the Southern New England Design-2-Part Show, scheduled to take place April 20-21, 2022, in Uncasville, CT. The KYZEN clean team will be in Booth #463 ready to discuss the recently published finding by the EPA regarding potential changes in the industry and solvent replacements.

KOKI Company Limited (Tokyo, Japan) is very proud to announce that Mr. Jasbir Bath, Support Advisory Engineer of KOKI Solder America, Inc. will be receiving a Distinguished Committee Service Award from IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries.

ASM Assembly Systems (ASM) today announced that Canadian-based Price Electronics has installed a high-flexibility ASM SMT production line to support the EMS company’s growth ambitions and facilitate its customers’ increasingly advanced PCB assemblies. The new line includes a DEK NeoHorizon stencil printer, two SIPLACE SX1 placement platforms and a SIPLACE SX2, allowing Price Electronics to significantly improve throughput and accommodate a diverse component range that spans metric 0201s and micro-BGAs up to large, odd form devices.