HERRENBERG, GERMANY -- HMS-Höllmüller and Uyemura (UIC) have formed an alliance to jointly market and sell desmear/electroless copper/copper plating packages in Japan as well as in other parts of Asia. UIC installed a HMS´s PTH and plating technology line (ComPlate PTH/ComPlate Cu G4) in the UIC Osaka facility. The equipment and chemistry combo are being used for customer qualifications.
“HMS and UIC had already successfully formed an alliance for a specific customer for horizontal reel-to-reel applications with electroless nickel, electrolytic nickel, electrolytic gold systems, so that it was a natural decision to extend this concept to other regions”, says Joe Kresky, managing director of HMS.