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BTU International Expands Partnership with CORE-emt to Sweden
January 15, 2019 | BTU International, Inc.Estimated reading time: 1 minute
BTU International, Inc. has announced that CORE-emt now represents its PYRAMAX reflow ovens in Sweden, including all of Scandinavia. CORE-emt has been representing BTU in Denmark and Norway for more than seven years.
Oliver Wehner, European Sales Manager at BTU Europe Limited, commented: “We are very pleased with the partnership established with CORE-emt and have been impressed with CORE-emt’s service structure. Their engineers are very skillful and knowledgeable - providing fast and very good support to their customer base. We are confident that the success we have had so far in Denmark and Norway can be reproduced in Sweden, and that this extended partnership will help us grow our activity and our customer base in all of Scandinavia.”
CORE-emt supplies OEM and EMS customers in the electronics industry with Surface Mount Technology assembly line equipment. The company’s service division offers skilled service on SMT equipment onsite. CORE-emt excels in all high-end SMT equipment, giving its customers a smooth-running assembly line.
CORE-emt offers a full SMT line-up with pick & place machines, PCB board handling, soldering reflow ovens and a lot of supporting SMT units that will influence up-time in a positive way.
About BTU International
BTU International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amtech Group (Nasdaq: ASYS), is a global supplier and technology leader of advanced thermal processing equipment in the electronics manufacturing market. BTU’s high-performance reflow ovens are used in the production of SMT printed circuit board assemblies and in semiconductor packaging processes. BTU also specializes in precision controlled, high-temperature belt furnaces for a wide range of custom applications, such as brazing, direct bond copper (DBC), diffusion, sintering and advanced solar cell processing. BTU has operations in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and Shanghai, China, with direct sales and service in the U.S.A., Asia and Europe.
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