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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 27 June 2008

NIEDERNHALL, GERMANY -- Würth Elektronik was awarded “PCB Supplier of the Year 2007” by BMK professional electronics GmbH.

“We are of course very happy to win this award and hope, as a result, to continue expanding the stable customer-supplier relationship with BMK based on partnership!” explains Ulrich Hönninger, head of sales at Würth Elektronik’s circuit board division.

Würth Elektronik won out over 26 other circuit board suppliers. Würth Elektronik is a longstanding strategic supplier to BMK. The prize, awarded this year by the BMK Group for the first time, takes adherence to deadlines and product quality as well as reliability and staff competence into consideration.

Würth Elektronik manufactures circuit boards, passive and electromechanical components, system assemblies and photovoltaic modules. The company employs over 7,600 people and had an annual sales of 369 million Euro in 2007.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 25 June 2008

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Dow Chemical has reported that in a continuing attempt to offset increasing costs for energy and raw materials, it will raise the prices of its products again by as much as 25%.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 25 June 2008

BILLERICA, MA – Orbotech, Inc. has announced that ITL Circuits Inc. of Ontario, Canada has purchased a Newprint Maxi inkjet legend printer for its bare printed circuit board operation.

"Moving…to Orbotech’s inkjet printer has been an excellent decision for us. Because of its ability to simultaneously print legend, serial numbers and date codes… we have been able to eliminate several process steps, improve quality and reduce costs," explained George Papas, engineering manager at ITL Circuits.

Adi Kahn, president of Orbotech said, "We are very pleased that ITL has upgraded its legend printing process with our solution… The immediate benefits in operational efficiency and quality will surely make an important contribution to successfully meeting the company’s production goals."

AURORA, CO - Advanced Circuits has announced a $1 million capital investment in new equipment to increase capabilities and provide redundancy in PCB fabrication.

"Our goal with this investment is to maintain 100% redundancy…to maintain the customer excellence we are known for." said John Yacoub, CEO of Advanced Circuits.

The new equipment includes ENIG and ENIS automated plating lines, a Polar TDR machine, a Burkle 6 Vacuum Press, an Orbotech Ink Jet Printer, an Accusystems AS 150 JE, an ACS TruCure oven, and an Excellon 689 Drill.

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.