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Industry News June 2022

Amphenol Invotec secures £2m defence contract for the supply of PCBs. 

This award further cements the company’s position as one of the leading supplier of PCBs to the defence market. Amphenol’s capabilities are among the world’s broadest and most advanced,...View Full Story

Atotech sells 1,000th horizontal electrolytic copper plater to the market. 

Atotech, a market leader in advanced electroplating solutions, announced the sale of its 1,000th horizontal equipment for electrolytic copper plating. The plater, which belongs to the company’s Uniplate product family, will be installed at one of Taiwan’s leading advanced package-substrate and PCB manufacturers. Atotech’s Uniplate Cu18 plating line is designed for high aspect-ratio through-hole filling of core layers for advanced packaging of CPU and MPU for high-performance processing and computing.

This represents an unparalleled success story in the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Package Substrate markets.
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Additional Manufacturing Capacity for Electra

Electra have just signed the agreement on an additional factory building for production expansion. The expansion is required to meet increased demand of existing materials as well as growth in Inkjet soldermask. Increased capacity from the new building will come on stream in Q1 of 2023. Read more....

Copper is the major metal used in the electronics industry, and so it is inevitable that it is likely to be present in our internal waste streams.

As part of our continuous improvement plan, we have therefore developed an onsite treatment plant capable of reducing and stabilising our effluent copper content. Read more....

Exception PCB Install New Schmoll Speedmaster Drilling Machine

This is our new drilling machine, featuring 6 drilling stations all equipped with the T200 spindles with top of the line air bearing technology to make light work of any drilling challenges, this helps us to achieve high speed drilling while maintaining superior accuracy and quality. This machine can also drill panel sizes up to 635 x 714mm which allows for a wide range of applications with its extremely stable granite base which helps to dampen vibrations. Read more....