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Alpha Celebrates 50 Years in the Italian Market
July 12, 2017 | Alpha Assembly SolutionsEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Alpha Assembly Solutions last month celebrated its 50th anniversary of the Alpha brand in Italy. The bi-centenary was marked with a celebratory dinner at the Cannavacciuolo Café e Bistrot in Novara Martiri della Liberta, which was attended by both the current Alpha Italy team and also past employees who played a key role in establishing Alpha in the Italian market.
A commemorative silver plaque will be displayed within the entrance to the Alpha Assembly Solutions office in Italy. Alpha's VP of Sales for Europe, Fabio Taiana, commented, "This special evening was arranged to mark a great achievement for Alpha and recognize the hard work and dedication that the team has put in over the past 50 years to establish and maintain Alpha’s position in the Italian market."
Alpha, a MacDermid Performance Solutions company, has become a leader in the Italian market for the supply of electronic assembly materials to key industries such as Consumer and Automotive Electronics. The Alpha Assembly Solutions team is now situated at the MacDermid Performance Solutions office in Trecate, Novara.
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 on the products Alpha supplies to the Italian market please visit the Alpha website.
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