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ZESTRON Opens Manassas Facility
May 14, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
MANASSAS, Va. ZESTRON America opened its Manassas applications facility with founder Oskar K. Wack, Ph.D., president and founder; and Harald Wack, Ph.D., executive vice president and CEO and SMT advisory board member, May 11th during a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
ZESTRON led an historical tour of the area, site of the Civil War's Battle of Bull Run, and Oskar Wack outlined the company's long-term growth strategy and plans in America. Wack founded ZESTRON (Ingolstadt, Germany) in 1975 after years with Proctor & Gamble, and entered the U.S. market in 1997. The international company is still family owned. Wack asserts that ZESTRON's core strength lies in hiring and developing diverse talent. ZESTRON also operates technical centers in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., performing cleaning trials based on customer concerns. He sees near- and long-term future development in cleaning for mixed tin/lead and lead-free production environments, lowering cost-per-board in cleaning, and eliminating increasingly tough residues and contaminants with "greener" cleaning chemistries. "The global cleaning market is growing due to lead-free production becoming more important," Wack noted.
Harald Wack described his father Oskar as a "visionary" who capitalized on the opportunities within the electronics cleaning industry to grow ZESTRON in Europe and the Americas. Oskar Wack began ZESTRON with $5,000, and has since invested $10 million in the U.S. The Manassas facility will allow customers to bring cleaning challenges to technical staff for troubleshooting, process optimization, and other services. "Technical centers, with cleaning equipment and ZESTRON's chemistries in one location, is how we differentiate our company," concluded Oskar Wack.