Four industry suppliers come of age....
Four industry suppliers come of age....
in fiscal revenues, Juki Corporation has Juki customer at no charge. Installation and
small long-term debt in relation to cash on on-site training is included in the sale of
hand and is committed to investing heavily every machine and is performed by a highly
celebrating 20 years
in new strategic technologies to grow its experienced and motivated service organi-
market share. Juki Corporation’s largest core zation that is truly dedicated to satisfying
Juki Automation Systems (JAS) is responsible business unit is the industrial and house- each and every customer. Juki Automation
for the direct sales and service of Juki hold sewing machine business, where it Systems offers direct sales and service for a
Corporation’s SMT assembly machine is the market leader with approximately line of selective solder machines manufac-
business in North and South America. a 30% world market share. Its other core tured by the German company Soldercom
Juki machines are manufactured exclusively focus is the SMT assembly business, which Soldering Technologies Gmbh.
in Japan and have a reputation for high it entered in 1987. Juki recently shipped its Juki Americas, which handles Juki sales
quality and reliability. Juki is the pioneer 20,000th machine worldwide, making it a in North and South America, is celebrating
of the modular assembly line, which it leader in the number of machines shipped its 10th successful year in business. Juki
introduced to the market in 1993. Juki re- in the world. Americas’ president Bob Black, an industry
cently introduced the high-speed, low cost Using line optimization software and icon in the SMT field, said, “2008 was the
FX-3 chip-shooter rated at 60,000 CPH rugged in-line trolleys, Juki machines are biggest year on record for Juki Americas,
(IPC9850). capable of high volume and high mix and the FX3 has been a big part of the
Juki Corporation is a billion-dollar- production. Juki backs their machines with success. Sales of surface mount placement
a-year company headquartered in Toyko, a full three-year parts warranty for all ma- systems grew almost 40 percent, comple-
Japan, that trades on the chines sold in the Americas and Europe. mented by 20 percent growth in the
Tokyo stock exchange. In addition, unlimited machine operation selective solder product line.”
Due to strong growth and service training is available to every
largest electronics corporations, in- quarters—Cobar Solder Products—in
cluding Fortune-500 companies such Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA.
as AT&T, IBM, Hewlett Packard, In September 2007, Cobar Eu-
Panasonic, Siemens, Philips, rope and Cobar Solder Products (US)
celebrating 25 years
Ericsson, Nokia, Bosch, Alcatel and and all of the Cobar Group were
Cobar Europe BV was created by Eli
Goldstar. officially acquired by Balver Zinn, a
Westerlaken on November 15, 1983,
Cobar’s 390-RX is the first leading non-ferrous metals producer
in Holland. Cobar’s specialty is
synthetic no-clean wave solder flux headquartered in Balve, Germany.
chemical technology for the elec-
qualified by Robert Bosch GmbH in Balver Zinn is a leading provider of
tronics industry, particularly chemi-
Germany for the most critical applica- high-quality anodes with various al-
cals for the soldering and reflow of
tions in the automotive electronics loys as well as soft solders and special
printed circuit boards.
technology such as the air-bag system wires. Balver Zinn has licenses for
Today, Cobar Europe is a sig-
for Mercedes Benz. SN100C™ (Nihon Superior, Japan)
nificant part of the Cobar Group,
On March 1, 1994, Cobar Europe and for SAC-alloys (Iowa, USA &
a multi-million dollar corporation
became the first soldering company Senju, Japan).
with manufacturing operations in
to be accredited to both ISO-9001 “Cobar continues to grow and
Europe, USA and Asia and dis-
and AQAP-110 (NATO). On No- reach further into Europe, Asia and
tributors in all major areas of the
vember 1, 1997 Cobar was the first the Americas with their wide range
world. Cobar Europe has become
soldering company to be accredited of fluxes and solder pastes,” said Mr.
the technological center of the
to ISO 14001. Another first was the Stan Renals, managing director and
Cobar Group. Cobar’s 54,000 sq.
accreditation to the ISO/TS 16949 CEO of the Cobar Group, “and are
ft. (5,000 sq. m) production facility
Standard for Quality Management, continuing to develop new products
in Breda, Holland, includes a
on April 1, 2005. to meet market changes.”
demo-room, various laboratories
The ISO-certificates are not objec- The acquisition of Cobar by
equipped with analytical instru-
tives but milestones in a continuous BALVER ZINN Josef Jost GmbH &
ments and fully automated, state-
program of product innovation and Co. KG has definitely provided the
Happy
of-the-art production facilities.
quality awareness. Cobar is the oldest, stability to take Cobar on the next leg
Cobar is recognized for its
true ‘green’ logo in the industry. of its journey.
integrity as a partner to the world’s
In early 2004, Cobar Europe es-
tablished a North American head-
Anniversary!
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