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May 24, 2017 | Alpha Assembly SolutionsEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Alpha Assembly Solutions will feature its Recycling Services in addition to new material set combinations at the upcoming Upper Midwest SMTA Expo and Tech Forum to be held June 22th at the DoubleTree Minneapolis-Park Place.
Alpha, a part of the MacDermid Performance Solutions group of businesses, will showcase its ALPHA Recycling Services capabilities. "Alpha is committed to helping our customers by providing them with cost-efficient options to responsibly dispose of their solder dross and waste," said Harold Sneath, Eastern Regional Reclaim Manager for Alpha. "Our goal is to minimize a company’s environmental liability while maximizing the financial return for their reclamation efforts."
Alpha's new material set combinations represent various pastes, tacky fluxes, cored wire, and wave soldering fluxes that are tested with one another to achieve greater reliability. "Reliability is a core concern in the industry," said Jerry Heinz. "Alpha has done the testing necessary to demonstrate which material pairings will produce the greatest reliability, relieving our customers from much of the trial and error can occur when selecting products for specific electronics assembly processes."
Representing Alpha at the show will be Jerry Heinz, Alpha District Sales Manager and Harold Sneath, Eastern Regional Alpha Reclaim Manager. Joining Alpha will be Kris Meacham, owner of JW Sales and Jeff Benke, JW Sales Sales Engineer. JW Sales is one of Alpha's strategic sales partners in this region.
About SMTA
The Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) is an international network of professionals who build skills, share practical experience and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies, including microsystems, emerging technologies, and related business operations.
About JW Sales
A partner firm representing a wide variety of solution based manufacturers. JW Sales draws from more than 50 years of combined industry experience to provide our principles and customers with the highest level of expertise and service.
Based in the Twin Cities, JW Sales has a strong Midwest presence serving Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Western Wisconsin.
JW Sales develops strong working relationships with customers, manufacturers, and the distribution channels. Primary manufacturing industries targeted are Medical Devices, Electronics and Assembly, Industrial, and Wire and Harness. JW Sales uses its expertise to find solutions that work today while preparing manufacturers for the future. For more information, click here.
About Alpha Assembly Solutions
Alpha Assembly Solutions, a MacDermid Performance Solutions Business, is the global leader in the development, manufacturing and sales of innovative specialty materials used in a wide range of industry segments, including electronics assembly, power electronics, die attach, LED lighting, photovoltaics, semiconductor packaging, automotive and others.
With a unique global presence in over 30 locations throughout the Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe regions, Alpha supplies a full line of ALPHA electronics assembly material products, including Solder Paste, Exactalloy Solder Preforms, Cored Solder Wire Solder, Wave Soldering Fluxes, Bar Solder Alloys, and Stencils. It offers die attach product technologies to the power electronics segment in its Argomax, Atrox and Fortibond brands.
For the LED segment, Alpha offers its Lumet™ products covering applications from die attach to systems assembly in the LED manufacturing process. Alpha also offers product technologies for the Photovoltaic segment, including high performance liquid fluxes and solder alloys for producing standard ribbon and bus bar, as well as, solder pastes, cored wire, conductive adhesives and preforms for use in PV module assembly. Also, Alpha’s Advanced Materials unit is the leader in electronic polymers and solder materials for semiconductor packaging applications.
Since its founding in 1872, Alpha has been committed to developing and manufacturing the highest quality specialty materials. For more information, click here.
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