ATLANTA — Koh Young, the industry leader in True3DTM measurement-based inspection solutions, truly values the contribution, experience, and loyalty of its employees. Koh Young is proud to announce it has promoted Heriberto Cuevas Velazquez to Regional Sales Manager, Mexico and Ramiro Mora will be the Mexico Applications Team Leader.
For over a decade with prominent electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider in Mexico, Heriberto successfully implemented multiple programs to reduce downtime and improve productivity by analyzing manufacturing data and implementing corrective or preventative standards. Previously, as the Applications Engineering Project Manager at Koh Young America, Heriberto managed multiple customer implementation projects and helped increase the Koh Young team with cross-training and process standardization. Heriberto will become the Regional Sales Manager responsible for the “Bajio” territory, which covers parts of the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaro, and Michoacan in Mexico.
Ramiro Mora will become the Applications Team Leader in Mexico. After 16 years with major Tier 1 EMS providers in Mexico, he transitioned to Koh Young America as a Field Service Engineer, and most recently an Application Engineer. Over the past 5 years, Ramiro has applied his proficiency in electronics manufacturing to help customers find ways to reduce costs and boost quality. A certified Green Belt with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree specialized in productivity and quality, Ramiro will lead our Mexican team of applications engineers to help customers apply our inspection solutions more effectively and make life easier for them.
“When an organization promotes from within, no matter the level, employees can see that their input and experience are truly valued,” said Ramon Hernandez, Head of Sales and Service for Mexico & South America at Koh Young America. “Not only will these promotions strengthen our resolve to deliver best-in- class support to its customers, but it will also open doors for new growth and experience.”
Koh Young is always seeking top talent to continue building it best-in-class company and we are eager to talk with interested applicants. You can visit us on 24-26 January 2023 at IPC APEX EXPO in Booth 1116 at the San Diego Convention Center in California. If travel is not an option, you can learn more about our culture and career opportunities at https://kohyoungamerica.com/careers/ on the Americas regional website. If you are looking for opportunities outside of the Americas region, please visit us at kohyoung.com/en/CareersCompany/recruit. We would love to talk with you about your career goals.
SAN JOSE, CA ― SHENMAO America, Inc. today announced the company’s 50 th anniversary as a leading solder material manufacturer. As an award-winning supplier of electronics assembly and semiconductor packaging materials, the company has a reputation for its quality service.
From its accumulated research and development, SHENMAO has successfully been approved by many international well-known electronic manufacturers. It is the motivation that makes SHENMAO products a step forward to be applied on not only consumer electronics, including motherboards, notebooks, desktop PCs, telecommunication products, but also high reliability electronics, including server boards, medical devices, military devices, and low orbit satellite communications.
Dr. Ken Lin, Director of SHENMAO’s Advanced Material Development Center, stated: “As electronic vehicles evolve, the industry needs more durable solder materials that meet the very high reliability and wide process window requirements. In the meantime, ESG urges manufactures to find a way to make products while reducing carbon emissions. We at SHENMAO are developing new soldering solutions to stay ahead of the curve for the next 50 years.”
In response to the ever-changing development trend of various packaging technologies, SHENMAO not only innovates various solder materials to meet the latest market demand, but San Lian Lee, Founder, Chairman & Kelvin Lee, CEO also actively cooperates with well-known EMS factories. With decades of experiences in related processes and materials, SHENMAO established an independent testing laboratory in 2020, CHEETAH Inspection Inc. CHEETAH has obtained the ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory quality management system certification, and focuses on the testing and verification of the reliability and failure analysis of various products and processes.
SHENMAO has integrated a talented group of sales and support personnel and staffed them throughout its worldwide branch offices and service center locations to a responsive customer service. The company is headquartered in Taiwan with subsidiaries in major markets including the Dong Guan, Suzhou in China, Malaysia, Thailand, Europe and America.
SHENMAO is dedicated to the production of solder products including Water Soluble and No- clean Solder Paste, Laser Solder Paste, Solder Preforms, Cored Solder Wire, Wave Solder Bar Alloys, Wave Soldering Fluxes, Extremely Pure Solder Powder up to Type 8, BGA and Micro BGA Solder Sphere, Wafer Level Packaging Solder Paste and Fluxes, LED Die Attach Paste, High Performance Liquid Fluxes, Solder Preform, Solar Ribbon, Plating Anode used in PCB Fabrication, Assembly and Semiconductor Packaging Processes. For more information, visit www.shenmao.com.
For more information, please visit www.shenmao.com.
AVON, MA ― StaticStop, a division of SelecTech, Inc., and leader in the manufacture of innovative ESD flooring products that save time and money, is pleased to announce the company’s 30th anniversary. Founded in 1993, StaticStop manufactures flooring products from recycled materials and uses one million pounds of recycled materials annually.
StaticStop was founded with the mission of creating valuable products from scrap plastics. Their FreeStyle ESD and SelecTile ESD products are made with recycled content and are 100 percent recyclable.
Tom Ricciardelli, SelecTech President, stated: “We are excited to hit this milestone. It’s not easy to use scrap materials and our longevity is a testament to our ability to the quality and value that our products offer our customers. So many years, so many pounds of scrap material converted into useful product!”
StaticStop has had impressive growth in recent years as a result of demand for two if its new products: PolyStyle ESD Resinous Flooring and SelecTile ESD in colors. Additionally, the company has seen increased demand in Mexico. Despite the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, Mexico’s consumer electronics market has had an unstoppable development, recording one of the most significant sales volumes.
Additionally, StaticStop had an exceptionally strong presence in the automotive electronics industry. The use of electronics in the automotive industry is expanding at a tremendous rate as new systems are being added annually. These systems have to function properly to meet comfort and safety requirements, all while working in a mobile environment that is subjected to more stress than a typical electronic device. Failures in devices can have far-reaching impacts.
Having a reliable ESD Protected Area (EPA) is critical and often required by the end-users of the products being made.
To request ESD flooring samples or information on the complete ESD Flooring line, please call 508-583-3200 or visit www.staticstop.com
DALLAS ― XDry Corp., a leading supplier of humidity-controlled storage cabinets for electronic manufacturing, laboratories and preservation, celebrates its 15-year anniversary in 2023. Founder Kevin McCarten was an early pioneer in the design of humidity- controlled storage – also known as auto-electronic desiccator storage cabinets.
Today, the company has a corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas, with authorized distributors in Bangkok, Thailand and all of Europe. XDry’s cabinet environment can be maintained from ambient to 1% RH, providing constant and stable storage at precisely the required RH level. XDry storage cabinets satisfy standards such as IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033 and IPC/JEDEC J-STD-020.
“Fifteen years is a great accomplishment, but knowing our first- year dry storage cabinets are still in operation is an even bigger one,” stated Scott Fillebrown, President of XDry. “We have made great strides in the last couple years with US based inventory and a spare parts depot that typically ships the same day. We are excited to see what the next 15 years will hold.”
As a dry cabinet manufacturer, XDry offers a wide selection of dry cabinets to choose from, including storage for printed circuit boards, moisture sensitive devices (MSD), optics, laboratory equipment, industrial equipment, collectables, media and more. For more information, visit www.xdry.com
CHELMSFORD, MA — VJ Electronix, Inc., the leader in rework technologies and global provider of advanced X-ray inspection and component counting systems, today announced that the company is celebrating its 20th year in business.
VJ Electronix was founded in 2003 as a new division of VJ Technologies, a leading global provider of X-ray inspection solutions, to focus on the Electronics Manufacturing industry. Since 2003, VJ Electronix has grown into a global leader of X-ray-based Component Counting, X-ray Inspection and Circuit Board Rework systems for the Electronics Manufacturing industry winning industry awards in almost every year since its inception.
“VJ Electronix owes its success to its loyal base of customers, many of whom have been with us since the beginning,” said Mark Clemons, General Manager. “We also would not be in the position we’re in without the dedication of our tenured employees and the many who have joined us in the last couple of years. With this talented and cohesive team, we are well positioned to continue to lead the industry with innovative, value-added products for our customers.”
VJ Electronix is committed to long term investments in development of new technologies in both X-ray and Rework markets to enable product offerings that are differentiated and offer high value to our customers. These investments combined with expertise from our sister divisions, VJ X-ray (VJX), a market leader in X-ray sources and VJ Technologies (VJT), a leader in industrial X-ray products, positions VJ Electronix in a way that few competitors can match.
As a global company, VJ Electronix markets products in all Electronics Manufacturing segments including high-volume consumer products such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, and gaming systems as well as medical devices, networking, communication, automotive and aerospace through established world-class distributors and manufacturing representatives. We provide full technical and support services for our customers on a worldwide basis.
For more information or to schedule a demo, visit www.vjelectronix.com
ANN ARBOR, MI — Aven, a full-service technology provider, today announced that 2023 marks the company’s 40-year anniversary. With a product line that features more than 750 tools for optical inspection and precision assembly, Aven has made a name for itself as a leading precision technology provider.
When Aven was founded in 1983, the company was focused on the importing and wholesaling of specialty tools. As the business evolved, the product portfolio expanded to include more high technology tools, thus allowing the company to engage in new market segments.
In 1997, Aven underwent its first progression, shifting from traditional workbench tools to industrial electronics supplies. The team then turned their focus to precision tools for optical inspection and precision assembly. Today, Aven’s product line includes stationary and portable microscopes, video inspection systems, specialty high-resolution digital and video cameras, lenses, illuminated magnifiers, software for image analysis and hand tools for precision assembly.
While Aven manufactures a broad product line of optical inspection equipment and precision hand tools, its true value to customers is realized in our positioning as a full-service technology provider.
“Aven’s 40th anniversary is a milestone and a special occasion,” stated Mike Shahpurwala, Founder & President. “We would not be where we are today without our employees and the support of our customers. Working with my partner Mark Kanpurwala and his dad Bakir Kanpurwala has been an honor and lot of fun over the last 40 years. Creating a business that is long lasting and has withstood the test of time has also been very fulfilling. This is the first chapter of our success and I hope there are many more to come.”
As a result of years of comprehensive research and development, Aven has expanded its expertise in the realm of design and customized configuration of advanced video inspection systems. The company’s solution-based experts possess the ability to recommend and create complete optical systems according to customers’ needs and budgets.
Aven also provides a variety of ancillary services such as product assembly, custom parts and tooling, and distribution, all of which are coordinated from its Michigan headquarters. To learn more, call (734) 973- 0099 or email sales@aventools.com.
For more information, visit www.aventools.com.