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Nordson DAGE Names 2017 European X-ray Distributor Award Winners
October 24, 2017 | Nordson DAGEEstimated reading time: 1 minute

Nordson DAGE, a division of Nordson Corporation, is pleased to announce their European X-ray Award winners for 2017. The Awards were presented during a three-day X-ray Distributor Conference, which covered Nordson DAGE’s extensive sales, service and marketing developments.
The premier award, European Distributor of the Year, was won by Partnertec, Nordson DAGE’s Benelux Distributor. Ben Seviour from Cupio UK won Service Engineer of the Year. Nordson DAGE’s Italian Distributor, Cabiotec, was recognized for Best Customer Support and Metronelec, France for Outstanding Contribution.
Mark Flain, Business Director X-ray Systems, presented the Award to Partnertec’s Managing Director Maurits van der Laken and commented, “This Award recognizes Partnertec’s outstanding sales of our X-ray inspection systems and the tremendous service support they provided to their customers.” He continued, “Nordson DAGE sell world-class X-ray inspection equipment and together with our true distributor partnerships, Dage offer ‘best in class’ systems, sales, service and support to our customers.”
About Nordson DAGE
Headquartered in Aylesbury, UK, Nordson DAGE is a unit of the Nordson Corporation and manufactures and supports a complete range of award winning digital X-ray inspection systems and bond test equipment for the printed circuit board assembly and semiconductor industries. For more information, click here.
About Nordson Corporation
Nordson Corporation engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products and systems used for the precision dispensing and processing of adhesives, coatings, polymers and plastics, sealants, biomaterials and other materials and for fluid management, test and inspection, UV curing and plasma surface treatment, all supported by application expertise and direct global sales and service. Nordson serves a wide variety of consumer non-durable, durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, construction, and general product assembly and finishing. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, the company has operations and support offices in more than 30 countries. Visit Nordson on the web.
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