Samsung Electronics Hungarian Private Co. LTD. today announced that they will switch their entire stencil requirement at their site in Jászfényszaru, Hungary to ALPHA TetraBond, the new frameless, stencil technology recently launched to the market by Alpha, a Cookson Electronics company.

Alpha’s Regional Applications Manager Europe, Alan Plant is to present at the European Electronics Assembly Reliability Summit, September 21-23, 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia. Low silver alloys are now commonplace in the production of solder spheres for BGA and CSP components but their adoption in solder paste formulation and use has been slower and more conservative.

Cookson Electronics claims to have an intimate knowledge of the stencil printing process, based on its global experience as the leading producer of stencils, as well as advanced solder paste products worldwide. Few can be better qualified to help you achieve optimum solder paste deposits.

Cookson Electronics has constructed a new Alpha soldering flux manufacturing plant at its Enthone ‘s-Hertogenbosch site, in the Netherlands. The new plant has been designed for optimum flexibility, having no less than 11 mixing vessels and the capability to produce batch sizes from 100 to 7000 litres economically and efficiently. With an annual capacity of 1500 tonnes, the new facility boasts underground raw materials storage capacity of 110 to...

Cookson has announced a new leader for its Enthone High Performance Specialty Chemicals business in Europe. David Crimp, currently Executive Vice President of Cookson’s Alpha Materials Group Europe will extend his role by assuming additional responsibility for Enthone Europe with immediate effect.

Alpha - Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials will show its extensive range of Solder and soldering related chemicals on stand 9.624 at SMT / Hybrid Packaging in Nurnberg. On show for the first time in Europe will be ALPHA® SACX Plus™ 0307, a low silver, lead-free alloy specially designed with proprietary additives to deliver soldering and reliability performance similar to higher silver SAC alloys (eg, SAC305 etc.) at up to 30% lower all...