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tech.com March, 2015
ITW Gathers Member Companies Together in One Large APEX Booth
San Diego, CA — It was a first for several companies that are part of the ITW Electronics Group — they gathered together in an enlarged ex- hibit booth area at the recent IPC APEX Expo in San Diego. It was a “family gathering” of affiliated com- panies owned by ITW (Illinois Tool Works), all of them well known in the electronics manufacturing industry. The ITW Electronics Group is a
group of affiliated companies owned by ITW which have a common mar- ket, the electronics manufacturing industry. Well known names include Speedline, which incorporates 3 brands: MPM, Camalot, and Electro- vert. Electrovert manufactures re- flow, wavesoldering and cleaning systems. Speedline is part of ITW — now
joining in this group which includes Kester, Vitronics Soltec (reflow, wave and selective
soldering) and
Libra Industries Marks 35 Year
Milestone Mentor, OH — Libra Industries, a privately held electronics manufac- turing services (EMS) provider, is celebrating its 35-year anniversary. Founded in 1980, the company has been an important source for cus- tomized manufacturing solutions serving organizations in a variety of industries with technically sophisti- cated manufacturing and quality re- quirements. Libra’s sophisticated manufac-
Marking the first-ever combined exhibit of ITW companies are (left) David Samyn, Group President, ITW Electronics Group, and Patrick O’Brien, VP and General Manager of ITW Thermal Processing.
Despatch (ovens). Despatch was not
an exhibitor at APEX. Contact: ITW Illinois Tool
Works, Inc., 3600 West Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60026-1215 [ Web:
www.itw.com
Mirtec Europe Tops Charts with Sixth Year-on-Year Growth
Oxford, CT — Mirtec Europe has re- portedly had a remarkable increase in sales revenue growth for the past six consecutive years. In addition, the company report-
edly achieved a 75 percent increase — a company record — in 2014. Mirtec Europe is highly focused on advancements within the elec-
tronics manufacturing industry and continues to invest heavily in R&D, persistently focusing on using state- of-the-art optics, lighting, laser and 3D technology to develop what the company describes as the industry’s most technologically advanced in- spection solutions. This, combined with an ex-
tremely talented team of sales and support professionals, has resulted in the company’s continued expan-
sion of market share. Contact: Mirtec Corp., 3 Morse
Rd., #2A, Oxford, CT 06478 % 203-881-5559 fax: 203-881-3322
Web:
www.mirtecusa.com or
www.mirtec.com
25 Years of Stencil Cleaning
Canoga Park, CA — For 25 years, Smart Sonic has provid- ed the only stencil cleaning process to keep pace with the many industry changes due to environmental regulations and the “faster, smaller, cheaper” goals driving the SMT as- sembly industry: including changes in stencil materials from brass to stainless steel to nickel-etched foils; from cast aluminum and extruded aluminum frames to frameless stencils; changes in stencil fabrication from chem-etch to laser-cut to E-fab apertures; changes in cleaning chem - istries from CFC and VOC solvents to semi-aqueous to aqueous chemistries; changes in cleaning machines from vapor degreasing to spray-in-air to spray-under-immersion to ultrasonics; changes in solder paste from RA, RMA, wa- ter washable, synthetic, and no-clean to lead-free. According to the company, it provides the only sten-
Santa Rosa, CA — Schurter, a manufacturer of Circuit Protection, Connectors, Switches, and EMC Products to the electronic and electrical industries worldwide, now has a newly translated Chinese website. This new website expands the company’s presence in
the Asia market, providing local customers with a more convenient way to search and select Schurter products and solutions. The Chinese website follows a similar web structur-
cil cleaning process to support all of these changes with the right machine, the best chemistry, and the correct waste management system. Smart Sonic users have nev- er needed to modify or replace their stencil cleaning process since 1990, saving them thousands of dollars in needless process and equipment changes. In 1999 the Smart Sonic Stencil Cleaning Process
was certified environmentally safe, user-safe and effec- tive by the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and verified by the U.S. EPA’s Environmental
Canoga Park, CA 91303 % 818-610-7900 fax: 818-909- 6109 E-mail:
Bill@SmartSonic.com Web:
www.SmartSonic.com or
www.SMTdetergent.com
Technology Verification (ETV) Program. Contact: Smart Sonic Corp., 6724 Eton Avenue,
Schurter Tailors New Website for the Asia
ing on the company’s main website
www.schurter.com. Product attribute selection and self-service tools such as real time stock check, e-Shop, Track and Trace, Partner Services, and CRM portals are offered. The new Chinese
Rosa, CA 95403 % 800-848-2600 or 707-636-3000 E-mail:
info@schurterinc.com Web:
www.schurter.com or
www.schurter.cn.
website is located at
www.schurter.cn. Contact: Schurter Inc., 447 Aviation Blvd., Santa
Smart Sonic Celebrates
turing solutions can be utilized in many industries including industrial automation, medical, military and aerospace, instrumentation, and com - puter communications. The company also has expertise in the manufactur- ing of RF-enabled products. The com- pany’s electronic manufacturing, sys- tem integration and box build opera- tions are performed in three state-of- the-art plants located in Lake County Ohio. In the last year, Libra’s acqui- sitions of Tetrad Electronics and Fo- cus Manufacturing, a CNC machin- ing and metal fabricating business. Libra’s impressive list of industry credentials include ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485, UL, CSA, FDA and ITAR,
among others. Contact: Libra Industries, 7770
Division Drive, Mentor, OH 44060 % 800-825-1674 or 440-974-7770
fax: 440-974-7779 E-mail:
Sales@LibraInd.com Web:
www.LibraInd.com
Datalogic in Strategic Agreement to Use B&R Automation PC 910
Roswell, GA — Datalogic Automation has reached a strategic agreement with B&R Automation to incorporate to adopt the company’s low-consump- tion, high-performance PC 910 sys- tems into the new UX series of vision processors and provide support for Datalogic’s IMPACT machine vision software. Combined with Datalogic’s IM-
PACT software, the system can man- age up to four USB 3.0 cameras to deliver extraordinary machine vision solutions. UX vision processors sup- port a wide portfolio of USB 3.0 vi- sion cameras and can even handle different camera formats and resolu-
tions with the same vision processor. Contact: B&R Industrial Au-
tomation Corp., 1250 Northmeadow
Parkway, S-100, Roswell, GA 30076 % 770-772-0400 Web:
www.br-automation.com
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