100 The PCB Magazine • August 2016
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The Newest Flex Shop
in the U.S.
I-Connect007 sales
team member An-
gela Alexander and I
recently got a tour of
Lenthor's new Silicon
Valley flex board shop
and then sat down
with President and
CEO Mark Lencioni to
discuss the new flex facility, the markets, manage-
ment, and the future.
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The 21st Century PCB
Factory–Designed to Eliminate
Offshore Cost Advantages
More than 15 years
have passed since
North America and
Europe ceased being
the center of world-
wide PCB fabrication
and were supplanted
by a Chinese market
with low-cost labor,
lax environmental re-
quirements, and strong government support.
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Happy's Essential Skills:
Design for Manufacturing and
Assembly, Part 1 and Happy's
Essential Skills: Design for
Manufacturing and Assembly,
Part 2
Advances in interconnection
technologies have occurred
in response to the evolution
of component packages, elec-
tronic technology and increas-
ing complex functions. There-
fore, it comes as no surprise
that various forms of printed wiring remains the
most popular and cost effective method of inter-
connections.
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All About Flex: Imaging
Methods for Etch Resist,
Part 3: LDI
When LDI technology was first
introduced around 20 years ago,
throughput was an issue. LDI was
often restricted to low volume or
prototype runs. Subsequent ad-
vances in equipment as well as
faster acting photoresist have made it practical for
high volume circuit fabrication.
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