Industry News
Industry news, continued from p. Kay Metal promotions in china
Evaluation Kit, and the EnerChip EH
page 8 office
CBC5300 drop-in power solution for solar
P. KAY Metal announces the promotions
energy harvesting. www.digikey.com, www.
cyberoptics opens new sales,
of both Mr. Hardy Huang and Mr. Jason
cymbet.com
service & training center in shanghai
Zhang. Mr. Huang will be in charge of
the companies’ regional headquarters in
JTag Technologies wins
Shenzhen China and will head the direct
Best-in-Test award
sales effort and support the companies
JTAG Technologies has been selected
stocking distributors in the area as regional
by Test and Measurement World as the
manager, China and Hong Kong. Mr.
winner in the boundary-scan category of
Zhang is responsible for installations and
the prestigious Best-in-Test programme for
customer training on the use of the dross
2008. TMW’s Best-in-Test judges select
elimination process as sr. sales engineer,
among innovative and beneficial products
China. www.pkaymetal.com
in several categories, placing JTAG
Technologies’ Rack-Mountable Instrument
cobar BV appoints new chemist
(RMI) at the top of the highly-competitive
The Balver Zinn Group
boundary-scan category. The award was
CyberOptics Corporation opened a
appointed Tim Lawrence,
presented at the recent APEX show in Las
new sales, service and training center in
PhD, a product
Vegas. www.jtag.com
Shanghai, China. The new facility includes
development manager
the company’s China headquarters as well
with a consistent track
eV group gains new customer for
as demonstration equipment and training
record of process and
bonding and plasma activation
facilities. CyberOptics’ latest SPI system,
product innovation, as
systems
the SE500, is available to allow hands-
chemist. Dr. Lawrence
EV Group (EVG) has received an
on process training with customers. The
received his PhD in Physical Chemistry
order from AmberWave Systems for its
company has similar sales, service and
from Leicester University, UK. In 1992,
EVG520IS wafer bonding system and
training facilities in Singapore and Taiwan.
having worked as a senior colloid chemist
its EVG810LT low-temperature plasma
www.cyberoptics.com
for 10 years at the BP Research Centre
activation system, which will be used to
in Sunbury on methods of exploiting
manufacture AmberWave’s innovative
robert Mihalyi joins rehm as new
crude oil reserves, Dr. Lawrence joined
engineered substrate products. The tools
sales manager for central eastern
Multicore Solders Ltd, Hemel Hempstead
were shipped and installed at AmberWave’s
europe (cee)
as a product development manager. www.
Salem, New Hampshire, manufacturing
Rehm Thermal Systems
balverzinn.com, www.cobar.com
facility earlier this year. www.amberwave.com,
appointed Mr. Robert www.EVGroup.com
Mihalyi to the position
electronics Technology 09 keynote
of sales manager CEE.
eMs presentation by Dr peter
iMec integrates plasmon-based
Robert brings over seven
Barnwell
nanophotonic circuitry with ics
years of international SMT
Dr Peter Barnwell, chairman of Custom
IMEC reports a method to integrate
market experience with
Interconnect, will be the keynote speaker
high-speed CMOS electronics and
Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems to
on day 2 of Electronics Technology 09, the
nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic
his new position at Rehm. This includes
SMART Group conference to be held at
effects. Metal-based nanophotonics
positions managing direct sales in CEE,
the Ricoh Arena Coventry. He will give the
(plasmonics) can squeeze light into
managing global key accounts and account
views of an independent EMS company.
nanoscale structures that are much smaller
management support while based in
The conference, exhibition and network
than conventional optic components.
Vienna, Munich and Shanghai. Robert will
event will be held on 30th September and
Plasmonic technology has the potential
be responsible for the further expansion
1st October. Dr Barnwell will present “The
to be used in future applications such as
and development of Rehm’s customer base
Role of an Independent EMS Company in
nanoscale optical interconnects for high
in the eastern European countries. www.
the UK—and Some Observations from the
performance computer chips, extremely
rehm-group.com
USA.” www.ElectronicsTechnology.co.uk
sensitive (bio)molecular sensors, and highly
efficient thin-film solar cells. IMEC’s
charles smart joins DyMaX as
Digi-Key, cymbet announce global
results are published in the May issue of
director of engineering
distribution agreement
Nature Photonics. www.imec.be
DYMAX Corporation appointed Charles
Digi-Key Corporation and Cymbet
Smart as director of engineering in the
Corporation have entered into a
Wolfson hurt by weak consumer
Curing Equipment Department. In his
distribution agreement for the worldwide
electronics market
new position, Mr. Smart will report directly
distribution of Cymbet’s EnerChip™
Wolfson Microelectronics swung into the
to Terry Woldorf, Sr. VP of Global Sales
family of solid-state, rechargeable thin-film
red and saw sales slump 46 percent in the
& Marketing, and will be responsible for
batteries and energy harvesting power
first quarter as its consumer electronics
leading the Engineering Team to continue
storage modules. Digi-Key is stocking
manufacturer customers continued to
to support sales and marketing in the
three new products based on Cymbet’s
suffer from the downturn. The company
design and development of new and
innovative EnerChip solid-state, thin-film
has said that market visibility continued to
innovative light-curing adhesive equipment.
batteries, the EnerChip CC Evaluation Kit,
be poor and it faced pressure on pricing.
www.dymax.com
the EnerChip EH Solar Energy Harvesting
www.wolfsonmicro.com
46 – Global SMT & Packaging – June 2009 www.globalsmt.net
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