54 The PCB Magazine • February 2016
Ventec International Group and TMT
Trading Announce Intention to Merge
Ventec International Group, a world leader in
the production of polyimide and high reliability
epoxy laminates and prepregs, announced the
intention to merge with TMT Trading GmbH, a
leading distributor of PCB base-materials includ-
ing consumables and flex- and rigid-flex circuit
board materials.
Plasma Etch to Hold Live Plasma Cleaning
Demonstration at MD&M West 2016
Plasma Etch Inc., a leader in plasma treatment,
will be providing live demonstrations of the com-
pany's popular PE-50 Plasma Cleaner to attendees
at the Med Tech World MD&M West 2016 trade
show. The show runs February 9–11 at the Ana-
heim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
OEM Applications: MacDermid's OEM
Director Embraces Renewed Focus
lenora Toscano, oEM director for MacDermid's
electronics solutions division, discusses the needs
of the end-user market of PCBs, her own role at
the company, which involves much interaction
with oEMs, and the benefits that both she and
MacDermid bring to SMTA and IPC meetings.
Insulectro Hires Laminate Expert Leena
Gulia to Join Silicon Valley Sales Team
Insulectro, a leading distributor of materials for
use in the PCB and printed electronics industries,
has hired former Isola oEM sales manager leena
Gulia as a technical sales manager in Insulectro's
Silicon Valley operation.
Ventec to Unveil New 'tec-speed' Brand
for High-Speed/Low-Loss Materials
at DesignCon 2016
Ventec International Group, a world leader in the
production of polyimide & high-reliability epoxy
laminates and prepregs, will exhibit in Booth
118 at DesignCon 2016, where the company
will launch a new brand identity, tec-speed, for
its high-speed/low-loss product line. With the
launch, Ventec will unveil a new logo, marketing
collateral and technical specifications.
Isola Names Jeff Waters President and CEO
Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad lami-
nates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fab-
ricate advanced multilayer PCBs, announced to-
day that its board of directors has appointed Jeff
Waters as president and CEo, effective immediate-
ly. Waters succeeds Interim CEo Jeffery McCreary,
who was brought in to enable leadership continu-
ity after Ray Sharpe's retirement in August 2015.
Bay Area Circuits Adds Accu-Score
AS-100-MAX V-Scoring Machine to its
Silicon Valley Facility
"This purchase is a part of our initiative towards in-
vesting in equipment which not only improves our
manufacturing quality and precision but also re-
duces cycle time," said Stephen Garcia, President
of Bay Area Circuits.
CCI Eurolam Group Expands Market Reach
The CCI Eurolam Group, for more than 30 years, has
been the distributor of Pacothane products in many
of the key markets in EMEA. We are pleased to an-
nounce that from January 2016 the territories that
CCI Eurolam Group will handle on behalf of Paco-
thane Technologies llC has been expanded to in-
clude the UK, Benelux, Scandinavia and Switzerland.
Nano Dimension Files Patent for Printing
Multimaterial 3D Objects
nano Dimension, a leading printing electronics
company in the area of 3D printing, announced
today that nano Dimension Technologies, a fully
owned subsidiary of nano Dimension, has filed a
patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trade-
mark office for the printing of 3D models, which
includes electronic conductors.
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