APRIL 2018 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 95
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO:
Candor Industries' History and
Advanced Circuit Constructions E
Founder and president Yo-
gen Patel shares Candor In-
dustries' history and de-
scribes some of the non-
standard approaches to
PCB production the compa-
ny uses to make advanced
circuit constructions.
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All About Flex: Avoiding Trace
Fracturing in a Flexible Circuit E
Flexible circuits are used
in applications requiring
millions of flex cycles.
But this does not sug-
gest they never experi-
ence failures due to flex
life. In fact, occurrenc-
es of performance issues
as the result of fractured
traces have been experi-
enced in a variety of applications.
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IPC Volunteers Honored for
their Contributions at
IPC APEX EXPO 2018 E
IPC—Association Connecting Electronics In-
dustries—presented Committee Leadership,
Distinguished Committee Service and Special
Recognition Awards at IPC APEX EXPO 2018 at
the San Diego Convention Center. The awards
were presented to individuals who made sig-
nificant contributions to IPC and the industry
by lending their time and expertise through
IPC committee service.
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SCL PCB Solutions Group to
Centralize PCB Manufacturing E
SCL PCB Solutions Group announced that it
will centralize the United Kingdom PCB man-
ufacturing facilities, namely Spirit Circuits and
Lyncolec.
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO:
Prototron Moves Offshore E
Prototron's Dave
Ryder and Russ
Adams discuss
the company's re-
cent decision to
begin manufac-
turing high-vol-
ume jobs overseas. They also discuss some of
the partner shops' capabilities, including flex
and rigid-flex, which are driven by customer
demand.
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AT&S Wins Business Oscar 2018
in Innovation E
The USA-BIZ AWARD,
the so-called Busi-
ness Oscar of the
Austrian Trade Com-
mission in Los An-
geles of the Austri-
an Federal Econom-
ic Chamber (WKO),
puts the media
spotlight on out-
standing achieve-
ments of Austrian
companies in the
highly competitive
U.S. market.
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