CircuiTree articles from February 2007

CircuiTree archives from February 2007

U.S. RoHS next?(survey on Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive by Newark In One )
February 1, 2007... An online survey conducted by component manufacturer Newark In One at the end of 2006 indicated that a whopping 46% of respondents agreed that Congress should enact a U.S. RoHS law, setting a single standard for all states. Now that you've spat...

PCB systems design solutions from Mentor Graphics.(Supplier Spotlight News)
February 1, 2007... Mentor Graphics provides PCB systems design solutions that address the challenges of the global enterprise, including intellectual property management, supply chain integration, and design team management across multiple sites. Library...

Through hole filling by copper electroplating for SiP: a novel copper electroplating formula is developed that achieves through hole filling while employing DC plating. A possible electrochemical mechanism for TH filling is proposed in this work.
February 1, 2007... High density interconnects (HDI) among dielectric layers have been widely employed in fabrication of state-of-the-art PCBs in order to meet the requirements of portable and foldable consumer electronic products. Also, advanced IC substrates...

3M.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... The Scotchgard[TM] Phototool Protection System combines a high-precision coater with 3M's Scotchgard Phototool Protector: a solvent-free liquid that gives phototools an ultra-thin (3.0 microns), optically clear, uniform shield against abrasion,...

Arlon.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Arlon Inc. announces the availability of the CLTE-XT Microwave Laminate. CLTE-XT represents the eXtended Technology of the existing CLTE product line. CLTE-XT has both "Bestin-Class" Insertion Loss (S21), Phase Stability, Loss Tangent, and...

Atotech.(China Printed Circuit Association show)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Atotech is one of the world's leading suppliers of chemistry and equipment to the PCB and Electroplating Industry. With our Technology teams, we are committed to truly understanding our customers' business to create value as a "partner...

Beta-Layout Ltd.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Actively selling prototypes online for the last 10 years, PCB-POOL[R] has simplified and shortened the PCB buying process for some of the worlds largest organizations. Engineers simply log on to the homepage, receive an instant online price...

ECI technology.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Pushing the boundaries of technology, ECI introduces the next generation of world-leading bench-top CVS analyzers. The QL-10E offers access to the most complete library of applications available on the market today. Now with a slim design, you...

Electrochemicals Inc.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Electrochemicals Inc. introduces Nickel Sol EN, a patent-pending process designed to remove electroless nickel deposits from printed circuit boards. Generally, circuit boards finished with electroless nickel are high value added and scrapping...

Enthone.(at the China Printed Circuit Association's show)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Enthone is committed to the highest level of technical support, customer satisfaction, product innovation, and quality. At this year's show we will feature the following technologies: AlphaSTAR[R] microvoid-resistant immersion silver process;...

Frontline-PCB.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... InPlan[TM] is a comprehensive PCB Engineering system that combines sophisticated engineering know-how with state-of-the-art pre-production planning tools to design the optimal manufacturing process for PCB jobs in a rapidly changing...

Isola.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Isola operates 13 manufacturing sites globally. Product innovations include, DE104i, IS400, 370HR, IS410, IS415, and IS420 for thermally stable, Lead Free Assembly applications, CAF resistance and high-reliability designs. IS415, FR408, GETEK,...

MacDermid.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... MacDermid Electronics Solutions formulates, supplies, and services innovative, environmentally friendly products to enable the manufacture of circuit boards of any complexity. When you need specialty chemicals for through-hole metallization,...

March Plasma.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... March Plasma Systems is the leading manufacturer of award-winning gas plasma treatment systems. Applications for PCB manufacturing include desmear, etchback, Teflon activation, removal of contaminates and oxidation, surface activation, as well...

Metrohm.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... The 797 VA Computrace from Metrohm uses "chrono amperometry mode" for cyclic voltammetric stripping (CVS), designed for the determination of additives (brightener and suppressor in plating solutions. The 797 VA Computrace is a modern...

Nan Ya Plastics.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Nan Ya is the world leader in laminate manufacture with complete offerings for lead-free applications and environmentally friendly halogen-free materials. Visit: www.npc.com.tw

ORC Imaging.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... ORC Imaging Corp., a leading supplier of UV Imaging Systems to the Flexible and Rigid PCB Manufacturing Industries with Headquarters, R & D, and Assembly in Southern California, USA and Service engineers all over the world, is pleased to...

Process photonics.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... The FP Series of flexible laser machining workstations can accommodate a UV laser, a CO2 laser, or both. Typical applications include via drilling in PWBs, FPC, and green ceramic materials, plus cutting and skiving operations. Automated...

Rogers Corp.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Rogers is a worldwide supplier of leading-edge circuit materials. They will be highlighting their wide range of high-frequency and flexible circuit materials, including their highly respected RO4000[R] series high-frequency laminates and their...

Serfilco Ltd.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... SER-DUCTOR agitation for the printed circuit board manufacturing and rack plating applications enhance plating solution flow across the board surface. Carefully engineered clusters of eductor nozzles sweep away cathode films swiftly, allowing...

Spraying Systems Co.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Spray Technology: Spray Nozzles, Spray Control, Spray Analysis, Spray Fabrication. Phone: (630) 665-5201, ext. 1272; or email: dave.mielke@spray.com. Visit: www.spray.com

Sun Chemical Circuits.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Sun Chemical Circuits is one of the world's leaders in the supply of Surface Coatings specifically for the PCB Manufacturing Industry. Sun Chemical Circuits manufactures a wide range of Liquid Photoimageable Products which include Etch Resists,...

Taiyo America.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Located in Carson City, Nevada, in the beautiful Sierras, Taiyo America is the premiere solder mask company in the country. With well over 60% market share in North America and over 45% globally, Taiyo is truly the number one solder mask...

Technic.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... A global supplier to the PCB industry, Technic offers the most effective chemistry, equipment, and processing solutions in today's market. Technic's long history of technical expertise, research, and customer service has brought to market a...

Taiwan Union Technology Corp.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... TUC is proud to present a new line of environmentally friendly, high-performance materials. TUC base materials have low CTE, excellent dimensional stability, and are CAF resistant and cost effective. With headquarters in Taiwan and regional...

Uyemura.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... Uyemura ENIG process produces uniform mid-phos EN deposits with a thin immersion gold topcoat, over copper substrates. Highly corrosion resistant, solderable, and aluminum wire bondable; an ideal contacting surface. Low concentration,...

Wise Worldwide Enterprise.(CPCA)
February 1, 2007... WISE Worldwide Enterprise will show the most advance technological Jet Scrubbing machine for Dry Film, Soldermask, or Immersion Silver/Gold Pre-Treatment process. WISE is present at CPCA exhibition together with its distributor Wong Kong King....

Chemcut introduces Etch Adjust Module.(Technology Today News)
February 1, 2007... State College, PA -- Chemcut Corp. is introducing a new performance enhancing feature, called the Etch Adjust Module, for its popular XLi product line. When the Etch Adjust Module is added to an etching system, the user will have an important...

Camtek introduces Pegasus 200S.(Technology Today News)
February 1, 2007... Migdal Ha'emek, Israel -- Camtek Ltd. announces the introduction of Pegasus 200S--a new model in Camtek's Pegasus product line of automated optical inspection systems for finished high density interconnect substrates. The Pegasus 200S has...

Isola announces launch of electrically improved IS415.(Technology Today News)
February 1, 2007... Chandler, AZ -- Isola Group announces the commercial introduction of improved IS415, a 200[degrees]C [T.sub.g] product with proven lead-free compatibility and exceptional signal integrity performance. The electrical loss numbers will now be in...

Innegrity introduces Innegra[TM] E, for PCB substrate materials.(printed circuit board)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Greer, SC -- Innegrity announced the development of Innegra[TM] E, a high-modulus polypropylene (HMPP) fiber which has a specific modulus and tensile strength close to fiberglass, a density of 0.9 g/[cm.sup.3], toughness twice that of Kevlar,...

BEST Inc. Launches PCB land repair kit.(Technology Today News)
February 1, 2007... Rolling Meadows, IL -- BEST Inc. announced the launch of a PCB land repair kit for repairing lifted and damaged "pads" or "lands" on printed circuit boards. This kit includes three different tinplated circuit frame patterns, offering nearly...

Control Micro Systems introduces next generation PCB laser marking system.(Technology Today News)
February 1, 2007... Orlando, FL -- Control Micro Systems, Inc. announces the introduction of the latest generation of its printed circuit board laser markers, the Gen4 product line. The Gen4 laser system is designed to mark and verify ECC200 Data Matrix...

Flex-based interconnection structures for high-speed applications.
February 1, 2007... The electronics industry's precise date of birth is hard to gage accurately. Some mark the date with the invention of the transistor by Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain at Bell Labs in 1947. Others place the date much earlier, with Lee De...

Viasystems.(Power People News)
February 1, 2007... Viasystems Inc. hired Greg Lucas as technical account manager. Greg has more than 40 years of PCB engineering and technical experience.

GSPK Circuits.(Power People News)
February 1, 2007... GSPK Circuits of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England appointed Ian Kenyon as new product sales manager, Peter Murray to technical sales manager, and Duncan McKay to sales manager for the for the Midlands and the South.

Mentor Graphics.(Power People News)
February 1, 2007... Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that Happy Holden, formerly of Westwood Associates, has joined Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division, in Longmont, CO as senior technologist. Holden, an industry authority and sought-after expert in PCB...

Hitachi.(Power People News)
February 1, 2007... Hitachi Ltd. appointed Tadahiko Ishigaki as chief executive for its North America division. Ishigaki, who joined the company in 1968, is currently senior vice president and executive officer of Hitachi Ltd's Corporate Marketing Group, among...

Endicott Interconnect.(appointed Warren Dannelly)(Endicott Interconnect Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Endicott Interconnect Technologies named Warren Dannelly director of sales, global accounts. Dannelly will collaborate with internal support teams to penetrate accounts targeted for future growth in the commercial, defense, and aerospace market...

Plexus.(Power People News)
February 1, 2007... Plexus Corp. hired Tim Diana as the director of strategic services. Lee Connellee has also joined the company as the director of corporate facilities. Angelo Ninivaggi has been elected by the board of directors for Plexus as an officer of the...

China RoHS standards to become effective March 1.(Data Transfer)
February 1, 2007... The implementation of the China Ministry of Information's "Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products Regulation" ("China RoHS") will enter into force March 1, 2007. The substances and...

China PCB industry status, challenges, and solutions.(printed circuit board)(Industry overview)(Column)
February 1, 2007... Following in the tracks of the China Electronics & Information industry, the China Electronics & Circuit industry continues to maintain steady, high growth in recent years. In this column, I will discuss the expansion, geography, challenges,...

Firan Technology Group renews license agreement with Hadco.(Fab Focus News)
February 1, 2007... Toronto -- Firan Technology Group (FTG) Corp. renewed a license agreement with Hadco Santa Clara Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, for use of Buried Capacitance[R] material in advanced PCB designs. FTG's facilities in...

3CEMS to go public on Hong Kong main board, will raise share issuance price.(Fab Focus News)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... 3CEMS, a Chinese PCB manufacturer that plans to go public on Hong Kong's main board, announced that the company plans to raise its share issuance price in order to increase the funds to be raised to $622 million. According to reports, the...

TTM Technologies to close Oregon facility.(Fab Focus News)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Santa Ana, CA -- TTM Technologies Inc. will close its Dallas, Ore., facility and transfer PCB production to other company sites, primarily in Logan, Utah and Redmond, Wash. The Dallas operation, which mainly produced commercial PCBs, was part...

Jabil awarded AS9100 aerospace certification in Chihuahua.(Fab Focus News)
February 1, 2007... Chihuahua, Mexico -- Jabil announces that its facility in Chihuahua, Mexico has been certified to Aerospace AS9100 standard for electronic PCB manufacturing. The AS9100 is the aerospace industry's quality system standard developed by the...

Taiwan's PCB makers expanding capacity in eastern China.(printed circuit board)(Gold Circuit Electronics, HannStar Board Corp., Victory Circuit Co. etc. opening new facilities)
February 1, 2007... Taipei -- Taiwan PCB manufacturers are speeding up production capacity expansion in mainland China, especially in Suzhou, Kunshan, and Changshu of Jiangsu Province. At present, Taiwanese PCB firms operating in the mainland include Ya Hsin...

Barco sells Prints activity to Elprinta.(Fab Focus News)
February 1, 2007... Brussels -- Belgian technology company Barco NV will sell its Prints activity part of Barco Manufacturing Services to the shareholders of family-owned company Elprinta. Effective Jan. 1, 2007, the transfer and will have a marginal impact on...

Career Technology to supply FPCBs for Apple MacBooks.(Fab Focus News)
February 1, 2007... Taiwan-based Career Technology has received certification from Apple Computer to supply flexible PCBs flexible PCB for MacBooks, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times. The company is also actively soliciting flexible PCB orders...

2007 outlook improves.(Market Outlook)
February 1, 2007... The U.S. electronics industry's business environment was relatively stable in 2006. Domestic electronic equipment orders (other than March's spike and October's dip) were fl at from February to November (Chart 1). Globally 2006 was a year of...

A complete solution for microvia metallization.
February 1, 2007... This article describes the use of conductive polymer to metallize high density microvia and discusses the development and optimization of a vertical electrolytic copper process for both microvia filling and through hole metallization of HDI...

Lean sigma (Part IV).(View from the Middle)
February 1, 2007... Principle 7 of Jeffrey L. Liker's book The Toyota Way is "Use Visual Controls So No Problems Are Hidden." A better understanding of this methodology may reveal just how powerful an operational excellence tool this can be. Organized Chaos...

Fine lines in high yield (Part CXXXVII): inkjetting conductors.(European Institute of Printed Circuits 2006)
February 1, 2007... The EIPC Summer Conference in Venice, Italy, June 2006, featured a session on the impact inkjetting will have on the traditional ways of building PWBs. The general consensus seemed to be that indeed there is an impact and it is real, but it...

Weiner & Associates to present forum on global business.(Data Transfer)
February 1, 2007... "Asian-Developed and Implemented Technologies and Business Practices You May Have Missed: Equipment, Materials, and Manufacturing Processes," a February 21, 2007, forum developed by Weiner & Associates for IPC Printed Circuits...

High-speed, Chip-to-Chip interconnections using flex circuit technology--an update.(Flexible Thinking)
February 1, 2007... A little over three years ago, this column first described the concept of segregating the high-speed interconnections of an IC from power, ground, and control and suggested routing those high-speed signals directly from the top of one IC...

Understanding the through-hole density barrier.(Happy Thoughts)
February 1, 2007... I imagine many of you are wondering, "What is the through-hole density barrier?" If you look at Figure 1, you see a fundamental "CELL" for a printed circuit board. The element of this "CELL" is a single square inch of a printed circuit board's...

Ciba Specialty Chemicals opens new facility.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Lampertheim, Germany -- Ciba Specialty Chemicals has inaugurated a new manufacturing unit for its MELAPUR[R] 200 line of melamine polyphosphate-based flame retardants. The facility, located at the company's Lampertheim site in Germany, is...

Mitsubishi Materials to double copper anode output capacity.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Tokyo -- Mitsubishi Materials Corp. said it will double its production capacity of copper anodes to 40,000 tons a year at a cost of 300 million yen. The company plans to achieve the capacity increase at its plant in Sakai, Osaka next...

MacDermid announces merger agreement.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Denver -- MacDermid, Incorporated announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which Daniel H. Leever, its chairman and chief executive officer, and investment funds managed by Court Square Capital Partners and Weston...

3M releases catalog of interconnect solutions.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Austin, TX -- 3M Electronics released a new catalog of connectors, cable, and cable assemblies for a wide variety of applications. The 36-page catalog provides a number of 3M solution categories based on custom-designed products for specialized...

Endicott places multiple-system order from ESI.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Portland, OR -- Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) announces Endicott Interconnect Technologies Inc. (EI) has placed a follow-on, multiple-system order for ESI's UV laser drilling systems. A longtime ESI customer, EI will utilize ESI's...

Asahi Kasei targets companies to purchase.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Asahi Kasei, a maker of dry-film resist for PCBs and photomask pellicles for liquid crystal displays, plans to target companies that manufacture materials for fl at panel displays under its merger and acquisition strategy for its materials...

Grand opening of Panasonic Electric Works.(Supply Line News)
February 1, 2007... Osaka, Japan -- Matsushita Electric Works (MEW) Ltd. held the grand opening ceremony of Panasonic Electric Works Electronic Materials (Suzhou), Co. Ltd., its new subsidiary for manufacturing multilayer PCB materials in Suzhou, China. This plant...

Minco releases 'Flex Circuits Design Guide'.(Minco Products Inc.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Minneapolis--Minco released the "Flex Circuits Design Guide," for use in conjunction with IPC design standards in designing and integrating flexible circuits. Nick Koop, Minco fl ex circuits division manager and chairman of IPC-6013 workgroup,...

Park Electrochemical reports 3Q results.(Supply Line News)(Financial report)
February 1, 2007... Melville, NY -- Park Electrochemical Corp. reported net earnings of $9,529,000 for the third quarter ended November 26, 2006, compared to net earnings before special items of $8,233,000 for the third quarter ended November 27, 2005. During last...

Events.
February 1, 2007... EIPC Winter Conference February 8-9, 2007 Renaissance Salzburg Hotel Salzburg, Austria Email: kwestenberg@eipc.org Website: www.eipc.org IPC Printed Circuits Expo, APEX, and Designers Summit February 20-22, 2007 ...