108 The PCB Magazine • May 2017
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Flex Talk: Flex Material
Handling—An Inside Peek
As increasingly more designs
move to flexible materials to
take advantage of space, weight
or packaging benefits, it has
been clear that flexible circuits
require a different set of rules
than their rigid counterparts.
We spend substantial time working through the
design to ensure that flex is as robust as possible.
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A Conversation with
Gene Weiner
In a discussion following the
PCB Executive Forum at IPC
APEX EXPO in February, Gene
Weiner opened up to Barry
Matties and Patty Goldman on
the state of the North Amer-
ican electronics industry sup-
ply chain and the importance
of cooperative efforts up and
down that supply chain.
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American Standard Circuits
Discusses e-Book on Designing
Flex and Rigid-Flex
American Standard Circuits
is an industry leader when
it comes to high-technol-
ogy printed circuit boards,
especially flex and rigid-flex
printed circuit boards. So, it
was natural that they would
write about flex and rigid-
flex for I-Connect007's new
"Guide to…" e-book series.
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All About Flex:
Flex Circuit Stiffeners
Many flexible circuit designs
require selectively bonded
stiffeners…they're just too
flexible! Stiffener materials can
be any number of materials,
but they are usually polyimide
films or FR-4 glass/epoxy sub-
strates and are available in a
wide variety of thicknesses.
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