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Insulectro, Oak-Mitsui, and CAC Create
Landmark Partnership
Beginning in July, Insulectro will provide copper
foil manufactured by Oak-Mitsui for the PCB out-
er-layer market requirements. This strategic move
will provide long-term sustainable domestic foil to
PCB fabrication customers.
Atotech Increases Equipment
Manufacturing Capacity with
New Facility in China
Atotech, a global leader in specialty plating chem-
icals, equipment and services, today announced
the inauguration of its second equipment manu-
facturing facility in Guangzhou, China to meet the
growing demand for its plating equipment.
Ventec USA Appoints Ken Stem as
Technical Account Representative
Ventec USA is proud to announce the appointment
of Ken Stem as Technical Account Representative
for the states of Washington, Oregon, Colorado,
Utah, Arizona and Vancouver/British Columbia,
Canada.
Leading PCB Test Service Installed
Second atg Flying Probe System
atg Luther & Maelzer GmbH has confirmed the
installation of a second atg A7 flying probe test
system for high-speed bare board testing at Circuit
Technology Services.
Orbotech Divests Thermal
Products Business
ORBOTECH LTD. today announced that SPTS Tech-
nologies Group Ltd. (SPTS), an Orbotech com-
pany and supplier of advanced wafer processing
solutions for the global semiconductor and related
industries, has sold its Thermal Products business
to SPP Technologies Co, Ltd. (SPT), a subsidiary of
Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
John Perry Explains IPC T-50 Revision M 443
IPC has released IPC-T-50 Revision M, Terms and
Definitions for Interconnecting and Packaging
Electronic Circuits. This ever-evolving standard
provides common language of terms and defini-
tions for the electronics industry.
Maskless Lithography Inc. Appoints
Technica USA as Authorized
Service Provider
Bill Elder, CEO of Maskless Lithography Inc. (MLI),
announced that the company has reached an
agreement with Technica USA to become the only
authorized service provider for the MLI technology
in North America.
MacDermid Electronics Solutions'
Julian Bashore Elected to JPCA
Board of Trustees
MacDermid Electronics Solutions, a division of
MacDermid, Incorporated, a Platform Specialty
Products Corporation company, announces the
election of Julian Bashore, managing director,
Japan, to the Japan Electronics Packaging and
Circuits Association (JPCA) Board of Trustees at
their annual general meeting held in Tokyo on
May 22, 2015.
Registration Opens for Boards, Chips
and Packaging Conference from
Isola and Semico Research
Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad lami-
nates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fab-
ricate advanced multilayer Printed Circuit Boards
(PCBs) and Semico Research, a semiconductor
marketing and consulting research company,
announced today that they have teamed up to
launch Boards, Chips and Packaging: Designing to
Maximize Results.
Bay Area Circuits Selects Seica
Flying-Probe PCB Test System
Bay Area Circuits Inc. has purchased a Rapid 270
bare-board tester as announced by Seica Inc.'s
sales representative in Northwestern USA, Zero
Defects International. This tester will augment a
Seica S240 fully automated tester which has been
in use at Bay Area Circuits for the past four years.
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