Kulicke and Soffa has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 100% equity stake of Assembléon, in an all cash transaction for $98m. Assembléon is a technology solutions provider, offering assembly equipment, processes and services to the automotive, industrial, and advanced packaging markets.

Assembléon has today announced that its booth at NEPCON South China (Shenzhen, booth 1G50, August 28 – 30) will be dedicated to the perfect combination of quality and flexibility, showing the iFlex and AX-501 Hybrid.

Exactly one year after the privatization from Royal Philips, the management of Assembléon is transferred to a new CEO and management team, fully composed of people with a long experience with Assembléon, its customers and technology.

The IPC APEX 2012 trade show in San Diego was an outstanding success for Assembléon. Assembléon’s latest innovation in pick & place equipment, iFlex, had it's official North America introduction and was well received. iFlex is unique in combining quality, flexibility, efficiency and cost control in one single machine, thus fulfilling the wishes and needs of today’s industry. The reaction from those attending the show was very enthusiastic,...

Assembléon’s Twin Placement Robot, the latest addition to its A-Series pick & place equipment, has been received multiple innovation awards at this year’s Nepcon China in Shanghai. The Twin Placement Robot (TPR) received EM Asia’s Innovation award 2011 in the high volume assembly category. In the same category it also received the award for best exhibited technology from the SMT Association China.

Assembléon announces that Tonn van de Laar has followed up Andre Papoular as CEO of Assembléon. This change of leadership follows the recent completion of the agreement between Royal Philips Electronics, founder of Assembléon, and H2 Equity Partners for the transaction of 80% of the Assembléon shares to H2. The remaining 20% will remain within Philips.

Assembléon is stressing the value of energy efficient pick & place at this year's IPC APEX Expo (Las Vegas April 12-14, Booth 508). While saving up to $10.000 in operating costs alone per pick & place machine per year, the low energy consumption of all A-Series solutions in the market today help to drastically reduce the SMT industry’s carbon footprint. The company is also using APEX to announce the extension of its compact, modular and econom...

Royal Philips Electronics announced today that it intends to sell a majority stake in its subsidiary Assembléon to H2 Equity Partners, an independent private equity firm. H2 Equity Partners will take an 80% stake in the company and Philips will retain 20% once the transaction, which is subject to the advice of the works council and customary regulatory filings, is completed.

A Web Shop for European customers of Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon goes live today – in parallel with a successful similar service for American customers set up in 2009. The Web Shop, which was first demonstrated at SMT Hybrid & Packaging in Nurnberg in June, allows customers to order original Assembléon parts online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon’s recently released Twin Placement Robot (TPR) is reducing the cost of placement for memory module assembly, and will soon be doing the same for semiconductor backend manufacturing. The TPR fits on Assembléon’s A-Series pick & place equipment to give a single platform that can place up to 110,000 ICs and chip components per hour – eliminating the need for a separate line balancing machine. T...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon’s recently released Twin Placement Robot (TPR) is reducing the cost of placement for memory module assembly, and will soon be doing the same for semiconductor backend manufacturing. The TPR fits on Assembléon’s A-Series pick & place equipment to give a single platform that can place up to 110,000 ICs and chip components per hour – eliminating the need for a separate line balancing machine. T...

A 4-mm feeder for Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon’s A-Series pick & place machines improves the reliability of 01005 component placement. Assembléon’s ITF3 feeder accepts the new W4P1 all-plastic tape standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (under IEC 60286-3-2: Type VI). The tape eliminates the paper dust that can cause bad solder connections to the micro-miniature components. It is also static free, a...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon will show several recent developments to its pick & place range at this year's SMT Nuremberg (June 8-10, Booth 7.549). Packing a PCB assembly line with 80 kcph (components per hour) and up to 220 feeders into only 4 square meters, the company’s award winning MC-24 and MC-24X combination will help the European SMT industry to produce a variety of PCBs at very high speeds. Assembléon is building o...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon is cutting New Product Introduction (NPI) time on its A-Series pick & place equipment by 30%. The improvement is the first result of Assembléon’s strategic partnership with Valor – a division of Mentor Graphics – which brings a full suite of NPI and MES factory integration tools to automate machine-, line- and factory-level workflows and business processes. The result is a lean manufacturing...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon has won three major pick & place awards for 2010. Besides collecting Circuits Assembly’s Service Excellence Award for the seventh year running and the tenth since 2000, Assembléon has picked up two awards for its MC-24X modular placement machine. That has won both SMT’s VISION pick & place award and Circuits Assembly’s New Product Introduction award, making the MC-24X the hottest pick & plac...

Assembléon is announcing another industry first at Nepcon China in Shanghai (Booth 1C02, April 20 to 22), with the company’s A-Series pick & place machines now placing ICs at the same speed and accuracy as chip components using its new Twin Placement Robot (TPR). The TPR eliminates the need for the extra line balancers that are needed by other pick & place machine manufacturers, making the A-Series with TPR an all –in-one solution, especiall...

Assembléon is announcing another industry first at Nepcon China in Shanghai (Booth 1C02, April 20 to 22), with the company’s A-Series pick & place machines now placing ICs at the same speed and accuracy as chip components using its new Twin Placement Robot (TPR).

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon has started a research project to develop a new generation of sustainable pick& place solutions for the electronics assembly industry. The new generation will not only pick & place components sustainably; it will also minimize the environmental impact of the machine in its design phase. The project has been recognized by the Dutch government in the form of a substantial financial subsidy to stimula...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon is showing more ‘Smart Solutions’ at Apex 2010 (April 6th to 8th, Booth 325) held in Las Vegas, U.S.A. Several initiatives are aimed at helping customers to improve business perfomance and reduce SMT production costs. Assembléon is for example introducing the cost-effective MC-24X – a versatile extension to the company’s end of line solutions for high-volume and high-mix production lines.

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon showed the new Yamaha YS24 pick & place machine at Productronica 2009. Appearing for the first time in Europe, the full-featured dual-sided machine has a total of 120 feeder positions in a space of just two square meters. With speeds up to 72,000 components per hour, that makes the YS24 by far the world’s most productive machine per square meter. The continuous drive to cut cost of operations ma...