CILS
Computer Imprintable Label Systems Ltd. is a market leader in the field of durable industrial labels, especially in the field of high-performance, computer-printable, home-printable labels. In addition to industry, laboratories and healthcare institutions are also significant users of their products. The company with headquarters in England offers its products throughout the industrialized world, from Australia to America.
Website: www.cils-international.com
Cramolin
The once independent German company Cramolin is now American-owned and under the name ITW Chemische Produkte GmbH. It produces various materials under the brand Cramolin used in electronic and fine mechanical service, assembly and repair activities.
Website: www.itwcp.de
Edson
Edson Electronics Ltd., a family-owned company based in the North of England, is a specialist in a wide range of wipes, including stencil wipes. They make stencil wipe rolls for almost every stencil printer. They probably also offer the largest selection of swabs. Their antistatic floor paint is the most economical solution for flooring in ESD-protected operating areas. Their products are sold through distributors operating in many European countries.
Website: www.stencilrolls.com
ERSA
The history of ERSA begins with the patenting of the electric soldering iron, which is attributed to the founder ERnst SAchs (1921). The company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2021! Experience has been accumulated for a long time, and ERSA has been able to stay at the forefront all along. Today, in addition to soldering irons and the soldering stations developed from them, the company operating in a small German town on the banks of the Main is the largest soldering machine manufacturer in Europe and has the widest selection of soldering equipment in the world. ERSA is part of the German Kurtz Group, which is a family business that celebrates its 235th anniversary in 2014! For its global presence, it has six of its own subsidiaries in various parts of the world, but it is present in around 135 countries around the world through its local representatives.
Website: www.ersa.com
GlobalPoint ICS
GlobalPoint ICS offers high tech thermal profile recorders, software and accessories for any type of soldering technology.
Website: https://www.gp-ics.com/
GEN3
The company Concoat, from which GEN3 originates, has been serving the electronics industry for about 20 years. Their traditional products are coating systems that increase the reliability of circuit operation (conformal coating). This was joined by the production of equipment and instruments, which was first chosen separately from the others under the name Concoat Systems, and then the name was changed to GEN3 Systems. The name GEN3 indicates that the English private company is headed by the third generation of its owners. Until 2001, part of GEN3 Systems’ soldering process control instruments were available on the market under the brand name Multicore.
Website: www.gen3systems.com
Henkel Electronics
Henkel is a chemical company founded in Germany in 1876. Over time, it has developed into a huge, global company empire, absorbing many other companies. Its headquarters are in Düsseldorf, but it employs around 47,000 people worldwide. Its production scale is shared by three large business sectors: detergents and cleaning products, beauty care products and adhesive technology. The latter part is the division producing industrial and electronic products. Henkel is one of the most innovative suppliers of high-quality semiconductor encapsulation materials, materials for circuit board assembly products. Manufacturer of products and brands such as Loctite, Hysol, Ablestik, Acheson.
Website: www.henkel.com/electronics.htm
IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries
The IPC, originally known as the Institute for Printed Circuits, was founded in 1957 as an association of printed circuit board manufacturers. Later, more and more assembly companies became members of the organization, so the name of the organization was changed several times, keeping the abbreviation, until the current name was formed. The IPC is a self-organized, voluntary organization of electronics industry actors, designers, manufacturers, researchers, traders and other related companies. Any company that wishes to do so can become a member. Its standards and publications are used and applied by a significantly wider circle than the membership, almost every enterprise dealing with electronics, all over the world. As a global trade association, IPC is committed to promoting the outstanding competitiveness and financial success of its members. The headquarters of the organization is located in the United States.
Website: www.ipc.org
Isovolta
The legal predecessor of the Austrian company Isovolta was founded in 1946. The company is an innovative developer and international production base of various modern electronic insulating materials, technical laminates and composite materials, which has 18 production and commercial units in 12 countries. Its products are used by 20 industries, from electronics to the aerospace industry. Here, it is primarily known as a producer of soldering frames and soldering frames, as well as the special materials that serve as their raw materials.
Website: www.isovolta.com
LPKF Laser & Electronics
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG is a specialized German engineering technology company in the field of various laser applications and electronic and automotive production equipment with high precision mechanics. Pioneer in the field of laser micromachining.
Website: https://www.lpkf.com/en/
Olamef
The OLAMEF company, which operates in a small town in northern Italy, has been operating for more than 40 years and exports its own designed, mature parts preparation (leg bending, -cutting) machines made of excellent materials and carefully processed, from the USA to Singapore, all over the world. . Manual, electric, or pneumatically driven machines bend and cut the leads of strapped or bulk electronic components to be inserted through the hole to the desired shape and size.
Website: www.olamef.net
Pacha Automation
Since 1992, Pacha Automation has been serving the electronics industry with automation solutions for moving circuit boards and soldering frames during technological processes. The usual selection of conveyor elements and systems is complemented by several special units. Customers of the often custom-designed automated systems include small, medium and large plants. Pacha is a small German company characterized by excellent professional preparation, customer (task)-oriented planning and outstanding flexibility.
Website: www.pacha-automation.eu
Purex
The British company Purex, whose legal predecessor started its commercial activities in the field of telecommunications in 1985. In 1989, the company started manufacturing its own extraction equipment under the brand name Purex. Purex responded to the changed, stricter occupational health and safety regulations with an innovative extractor family, which cleaned the extracted air and returned it to the work area. Purex was one of the first to equip entire factories (Celestica) with such extraction system, with the use of which the installation costs have been significantly reduced, and the production lines can be flexibly transformed according to changing needs.
Website: www.purex.co.uk
Retronix
The company was founded in Scotland in 1992. Its activities now cover the whole of Europe, America and Asia. Retronix deals with the reworking, conversion, and reapir of electronic components and assembled circuit boards received from all over the world. They take e.g. BGA reballing, correction of flatness errors, change of coatings (e.g. from lead to lead-free or vice versa), filtering out fake parts, replacement of defective parts. They also deal with the mediation of rework technicians who carry out their work at the clients premises.
Website: www.retronix.co.uk
Stannol
Stannol, although not a large multinational company, is a well-established name in soldering technology. The company was founded in 1879 by Wilhelm Paff, a tinsmith in Wuppertal, Germany. The brand name Stannol was introduced to the market towards the end of the 1920s. In 1989, the English Kelsey Industries, the owner of Multicore Solders, acquired the company. After that, certain Multicore products were (also) made in Germany, but research and development remained throughout, they kept and carried on their own products, mainly intended for the German market, manufactured under the name Stannol. After the change of ownership at Multicore Solders Limited in 2000, the Stannol company became independent again, and received the right to further manufacture a number of Multicore products, now under the name Stannol. Since then, it has been continuously expanding and modernizing its product range with its own developments and increasing its market share.
Website: www.stannol.de
TWS
It started in 1994… The orders of a small Italian company producing GPS positioning equipment suitable for small boats increased nicely, the market demanded more and more. However, most of their products are not mass-produced, but at the same time, the quality and reliability requirements are very high. The production department wanted an affordable, automatic SMD Pick & Place equipment for small to medium quantities. Finding nothing acceptable on the market, they decided to make one for themselves. The result exceeded all expectations. The means of production became a product. Since then, more than a thousand Pick & Place machines have been produced, and the range has been supplemented with other machines required for SMT.
Website: www.tws-automation.com
Viscom
Viscom, founded in 1984, is a German company that plays a global leading role in the field of industrial control equipment based on image recognition. He played a pioneering role in introducing the potential of image processing for the purposes of industrial quality assurance. Viscom’s range of products, which includes numerous patents, offers a suitable solution even for the most complex and densly populated PCBs equipped with state-of-the-art encased components. Its self-developed sensors, X-ray sources and software represent the top of technology. Among the automatic optical (AOI), X-ray (AXI) and combined (AOXI) inspection equipment offered to the electronics industry, in addition to paste printing, component placement, solder bonding and wire bonding, even thin film or . suitable for testing semiconductor wafers are also available. Viscom places great emphasis on research and development, so that it is always ready to provide appropriate solutions to rapidly changing industrial needs.
Website: www.viscom.com