KEMPEN, GERMANY – Thank you and with a cheerful "Good Lack"! That's what it says in black and white on every bottle of Peters-Kölsch beer that Sven Kramer handed over to the staff of Unimicron Germany GmbH. Besides two cases of the top-fermented beer, the product manager handed over two boxes of the famous Prinzen rolls to the circuit boards producer in Geldern - a gift from the company.

"The DeBeukelaer biscuit has always been the second best product from Kempen, behind our Elpemer® solder mask," says Sven Kramer with a smile in front of the assembled team of the Unimicron solder mask department. The dousing of the great teamwork between the Kempen-based ink manufacturer and the Geldern-based PCB manufacturer is, of course, postponed until after work. Instead, many Unimicron employees take the opportunity for a bite into the sweet Prinzenroll biscuit during the shift change.

There are reasons for the convivial get-together in the Unimicron Park. For the conformal coating of their PCBs, the company relies on the quality of Peters solder resists from the Elpemer® 2467 SM-DG product family. "This resist actually meets our expectations," says Unimicron department manager Sascha van Düren, who thanks the company for the biscuits and Kölsch gesture. "You can rely on it," emphasises Jonas Poschen, process engineer from the Engineering department. Sven Kramer, Head of Application Technology at Peters, is pleased to hear this. The chemical engineer points to the simple, fast and precise processability even in the representation of finest ink structures in the direct imaging process.

The photoimageable Elpemer® solder resist is well on its way to convincing industrial customers worldwide regarding its performance. "From Kempen, you only have to drive 20 kilometres north up the Lower Rhine area to find with Unimicron a company that claims the benefits of Elpemer® for itself," says Sven Kramer who has already spent more than half of his 59 years of life working for Peters. At the Holländer See south of Geldern, it is now known that the end properties with regard to factors such as elasticity, insulation and mechanical and chemical quality stand up to any comparison with other coatings.”

The two companies from the Lower Rhine region are setting standards with their partnership. Unimicron manufactures between 2,000 and 2,500 PCB panels for the world markets every day. In addition to the automotive division, which has always been a flagship, renewable/solar energies as well as industrial applications have been added on an equal footing. The good relations between the company founded in 1945 and Peters date back to the time when Unimicron still operated under the name Ruwel. The founders Fritz Stahl in Geldern and Werner Peters in Kempen are generally regarded as pioneers of printed circuit board technology. It has been a stable axis ever since.

At that time, Ruwel mass-produced the first printed circuit board in Europe, which is considered the initial spark for rapid industrial development.This circuit board for Metz radio sets is still exhibited today in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. At the end of 2010, Ruwel was taken over by one of the largest PCB companies in the world, the Unimicron Technology Corporation, which invested in the company and thus provided a boost to innovation. "By this, Unimicron has taken a great development that we from Peters support with heart and soul, due to our shared tradition and entrepreneurial conviction," says Ralf Schwartz, CEO of Peters. "Cheers".

CHANDLER, AZ – Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG) will exhibit at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas & Propagation (IEEE AP-S) in Portland, Oregon (Booth #108) on July 25th-26th.

The IEEE AP-S conference is intended to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on state-of-the-art research in antennas, propagation, electromagnetic engineering and radio science.

Rogers’ Technical team will be presenting two papers on novel material solutions. Conference attendees can learn about “Dual Band Dual Polarized Electrically Small Antenna Employing a Magnetic Material” (July 27 th at 8:40 a.m.) and “High Performance Dual-Band Antenna Using Rogers Magneto-Dielectric Material for GNSS Band” (July 28 th at 2:00 p.m.) at these technical sessions.

Key Rogers’ products being featured:

Radix™ 3D Printable Dielectrics family of products, with the first available material featuring a dielectric constant of 2.8 and low loss characteristics at microwave frequencies. These printable dielectric materials give radio frequency (RF) designers unprecedented design freedom in creating new components, eliminating the need to consider typical manufacturing design constraints.

Radix 3D Printable Dielectrics are proprietary composite materials designed for the scalable manufacture of gradient index and controlled Dk 3D structures, through a scalable, high-resolution printing process for end-use RF dielectric component manufacturing. Rogers Corporation’s first Radix 3D Printable Dielectric material has a targeted dielectric constant of 2.8 and a dissipation factor of 0.0043 at 10 GHz when cured.

MAGTREX ® 555 High Impedance Laminates : The first commercially available low loss laminate with controlled and matched permeability and permittivity, enabling antenna designers to expand the trade-space of their antenna design, enabling design flexibility and optimization.

Rogers’ proprietary TMM® ceramic, thermoset polymer composites are designed for high frequency applications. Commonly available in laminate form, Rogers also offers capabilities to produce molded, 3- dimensional shapes of TMM material. Shaped TMM components open up a new range of innovative design solutions for high or low frequency applications requiring controlled dielectric constant with low loss factor.

TMM molded components can help designers eliminate costly machining and assembly steps, create smaller components, and improve SWaP at the system level. Select Metallization of TMM Shapes is possible, but highly application dependent. 

Consultation with one of Rogers’ technical experts can guide the success of designs. They will be available to discuss the most demanding applications from Phase Array Radar Antennas, high frequency magneto-dielectric materials, ablative Radome materials, and metallized-shaped/3D ADM dielectric solutions.

WALTHAM, MA – Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq: NNDM, “Nano Dimension” or the “Company”), a leading supplier of Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) and multi-dimensional polymer, metal & ceramic Additive Manufacturing (“AM”) 3D printers, announced today that it closed a series of landmark sales of Additive Manufacturing printers and Additive Electronics robotics systems in Q2/2023 which are material in size and customers’ profiles that are leading and large-scale businesses and organizations.

These sales are only a portion of the Company’s $14.8 million in sales for the quarter (preliminarily results were announced last week), but they are material due to both the financial terms and perhaps more importantly to the profile of the customers which we look forward to continuing to support in the future. The initial sales totaling over $4 million in revenue and include some recurring revenues are to businesses and organizations that are leaders in their respective fields. While the names of the customers cannot be shared as they are defense related and/or focus on IP sensitive work, a partial list of the organizations includes: a space exploration company, a satellite equipment innovator, a national defense agency, a nuclear research group, and a computer manufacturer.

The portfolio of products sold are from across Nano Dimension’s product lines with a notable portion being the DragonFly® IV System for Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) and a range of Additive Electronics robotics systems. These products are leveraged for a range of uses from innovation and prototyping to high-mix, low-volume production.

Yoav Stern, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nano Dimension, added, “We are proud of our progress with sales not only increasing by revenue and gross margin metrics – quarter-over-quarter, year-over-year – but we are also seeing that the profile of customers who choose to do business with us is advancing up to the higher levels. These customers are leaders in performing some of the most demanding, forward-looking work that will keep us safe and define our future, or both. These are only a portion of our revenue, but a great indicator of our success – and an encouraging indication for the future.”

KEMPEN, GERMANY – Value orientation, experience, responsi- bility, innovation: These four terms are written on the coloured stickers that Brigitte and Ralf Schwartz as well as Britta and Benjamin Alfes are pinning on the blue Peters barrel. After this, the employees stick their labels on the barrel, showing words like team spirit, courage, motivation, communication, appreciation and flexibility - being the raw materials for successfully shaping the future of the family business together.

Within a staff meeting, the Management of the family-owned company founded 53 years ago informed the staff of the coatings manufacturer based in Lower Rhine Area, and took them along into the future. The third generation, Britta and Benjamin Alfes, have been appointed to the Management team with immediate effect, thus completing the team together with Brigitte and Ralf Schwartz. On 31 December 2025, the second generation Brigitte and Ralf Schwartz, will retire from the active business of the Peters Group. From 1 January 2026 onwards, the granddaughter of the company founder Werner Peters who passed away in 2017 at the age of 85, and her husband Benjamin Alfes will be sole managing directors.

The two 33-year-olds have been involved in the company for a good six years and spent a year in Shanghai in 2019, where they helped to shape the newly founded local subsidiary. Britta Alfes studied International Business in Maastricht and, together with her husband Benjamin Alfes, has been part of the Peters team at the Peters headquarterssince 2017. Benjamin Alfes studied Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Aachen and, like his wife, graduated from the Luise-von-Duesberg-Gymnasium in Kempen in 2009.

Ralf and Brigitte Schwartz have been at the helm of the company for around 40 years and, with a motivated workforce, have made Peters into one of the world's leading full-range suppliers of coating materials for electronics.

The employees at the Peters headquarters in Kempen were receiving the family's decision with applause. "We have given a lot of thought to the strategic development of our company and the responsible transfer of responsibilities," emphasised Ralf Schwartz, spokesman for the Management.

Brigitte Schwartz points out that the transition process will be carried out involving the staff. "Securing your jobs and our business relationships are our top priority," says Werner Peters' daughter.

"For a transformation into the future world, we need innovation in organisational structures, processes, services and products," Benjamin Alfes explains. Britta Alfes adds: "By acting sustainably in every workplace, we want to take responsibility for this generation and the next.

Both are prepared to contribute to the successful continuation of Peters and its growth. The parents are visibly proud of this.