Industry News
on the Irish market. KPE was founded provides an overview of XRF technology
only recently, but already has many years as it is applied to electronic components,
of experience in electronics, particularly the effectiveness and limitations of
with machines from Essemtec. The XRF methods as a screening, and the
former Contax employees who were taken contributing factors in obtaining accurate
over by KPE make this possible. Contax measurements. Steve Glass is RoHS/
Automation Ltd. already handled Essemtec WEEE Business Development Manager of
representation in Ireland, but the news is RMD Instruments, Watertown, MA. www.
that it is now an independent company. It
rmd-leadtracer.com
can determine the range of products itself
and work directly with the manufacturer. Kirsten announce major distributor
www.essemtec.com changes
Kirsten Soldering AG of Cham,
Appointments
Switzerland, has made some significant
changes to its distributor network in
Europe to support the market development
altium appoints Martin harris Vp, of the modula wave soldering system.
eMea The company appointed STPE in France,
Altium has Industrial Technologies in Bulgaria,
appointed SmartTec GmbH in Germany, Demark
Martin and Austria, Mozaik in Poland and Perel
Harris as vice Oy in Finland and the Baltic States. www.
president,
kirsten-soldering.ch
EMEA
(Europe,
tbp electronics expands its eMs
aT&s’s new strategy for leoben-
Middle East
services with the opening of a
hinterberg facility bearing fruit
and Africa).
german sales office
The transition to the new strategic focus
He succeeds Frank Hoschar who
tbp electronics, a Benelux electronics
of Austrian AT&S’s Leoben-Hinterberg
has moved to Altium’s headquarters
manufacturing services (EMS) provider,
facility on European business and away
in Sydney to become director of
has announced the expansion of its
from volume production for global markets
marketing for Altium worldwide.
EMS services with the opening of a sales
has been largely completed. Extremely
Mr Harris has more than 24 years’
office based in Zirndorf, Germany. The
successful sales and marketing activities
experience in the technology sector.
German sales office will provide design,
and gains in market shares allow more
Before Altium, he worked in regional
development and service support to
capacity to be retained at the site than
director and managing director
German customers and is in line with tbp’s
recently planned. Annual production
roles with Autodesk in Asia, as sales
European expansion plan—the company
capacity—in terms of circuit board surface
director with PROCAM Systems
currently has sales offices in Dirksland,
area—will be 85,000 m
2
instead of 70,000
Austria, channel director at MacFuture
the Netherlands, and Geel, Belgium.
m
2
, and 700 people will be employed,
Technology RSA, and at Schlumberger
The business development manager
rather than 600. This is a convincing
Technologies. Most recently, he
for Germany is Jürgen Westenkirchner.
proof of the success of the new strategic
was with Machine Relationship
Westenkirchner has over 10 years’
direction.
www.ats.net
Management GmbH (MRM) as chief
experience in hardware design and PCB
sales officer.
layout and from 2003 headed up the sales
acW adds value with new special
division of Jumatech, a PCB supplier with
business services group
park electrochemical corp. ap-
special high power PCBs.
www.tbp.eu
UK contract electronics manufacturer
points marketing and sales Vps ACW Technology Ltd. launched its new
Park Electrochemical Corp. appointed special business services (SBS) group,
Ms. Katherine O. Abbitt as vice
rMD instruments’ steve glass
offering customers access to a full range
president of sales and marketing—
awarded best paper at sMTa china
of added value services covering pre-
Americas. Ms. Abbitt will report to
south 2009
production, new product development
Brian Shore, Park’s president and
RMD Instruments
and post-manufacturing support. ACW
chief executive officer. Anthony W.
Corp.’s Steve Glass
has invested £300k in setting up a
DiGaudio, the corporation’s vice
was awarded Best
dedicated SBS manufacturing line at its
president of sales and marketing,
Paper of Vendor
Southampton headquarters and recruited
will assume the new position of vice
Conference Two
a highly skilled specialist team focused
president of sales and marketing—Asia
at the SMTA
on providing fast, flexible and attentive
and Europe. Mr. DiGaudio will be
China South 2009
service.
www.acw.co.uk
responsible for the marketing and sales
Conference Award
of all of the Corporation’s product
Presentation Ceremony, held this past
lines in Asia, Europe, Africa and
August. The paper, “Understanding
Australia. Mr. DiGaudio will continue
XRF technology and clarification of its
to report to Brian Shore.
application for counterfeit component
awareness and the RoHS directive,”
8 – Global SMT & Packaging – October 2009
www.globalsmt.net
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