April 2017 • The PCB Magazine 93
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO:
Candor Industries' Unique
Capabilities Through an
Alternative PCB Manufacturing
Process
Sunny Patel, Technical Sales
Manager with Candor Indus-
tries, tells Guest Editor Kelly
Dack about their unique manu-
facturing method that not only
improves PCB process turn-
around time, but also yields
much tighter design constraint
quality.
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO:
Lenthor Engineering Updates
Rigid-Flex Capabilities
Lenthor's CFO Oscar
Akbar and EMS Man-
ager Matt Kan share
ideas with Guest Edi-
tor Kelly Dack on the
growing flex market
and Lenthor's strat-
egy to grow with it.
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All About Flex: Considering
a Flexible Heater?
Custom flexible heaters are
available in an infinite va-
riety of sizes, shapes and
materials. The most com-
mon flexible materials are
polyimide and silicone
rubber. While silicone rub-
ber has traditionally been
thought of as the higher
temperature flexible heater option…
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EuroTech: Reporting on the
Institute of Circuit Technology
Spring Seminar
There has long been de-
bate over the exact loca-
tion of the geographical
centre of England, but
the village of Meriden
has traditionally laid
claim to the title, and it
offered an appropriate Midlands venue for the In-
stitute of Circuit Technology 2017 Spring Seminar,
which followed the Annual General Meeting of the
Institute.
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Imagineering Authors The
Printed Circuit Buyer's Guide
to... AS9100 Certification
Imagineering, Inc. recently re-
leased their valuable new resource,
"The Printed Circuit Buyer's Guide
to… AS9100 Certification." Au-
thored by CEO Khurrum Dhanji,
"The Printed Circuit Buyer's Guide
to…AS9100 Certification" is the
first book in an ongoing series of
micro eBooks specifically dedicated to the educa-
tion of the PCB design, fabrication and assembly
industry.
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Standard of Excellence:
Staying Prepared with
Operations
Handling the operations of a PCB company these
days is a challenge, to say the least. When I started
in 1979, we were building single-sided, double-
sided, four-layer multilayers, and the occasional
six-layer if you really had your act together. We
were using FR-4 materials sprinkled in with an oc-
casional polyimide build.
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