A company that offers electronic engineering, design and development, and manufacturing services for the medical device industry has expanded its capacity through the acquisition of four new surface-mount technology (SMT) machines. The new equipment was added in order to significantly increase throughput and reduce lead times. One machine, familiarly known as a high-speed chip shooter, has 16 heads and can place as many as 37,500 discrete components per hour. The other SMT unit offers flexibility and the precision necessary for fine-pitch placement of a maximum of 14,000 components per hour. The company also acquired another reflow oven to provide greater capacity for processing RoHS parts.

Valtronic Technologies (USA) Inc.
Solon, OH, 888/291-9422