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June 25, 2020 | Indium CorporationEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Indium Corporation is proud to announce that members of its United States-based technical support team have earned SMTA certification.
Two Technical Support Engineers have recently earned certification as Certified SMT Process Engineers (CSMTPE): Meagan Sloan and Miloš Lazi?.
They join a number of CSMTPE colleagues at Indium Corporation, including two fellow United States-based technical support team members: Adam Murling, Technical Support Engineer II and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt; and Kimberly Flanagan, Technical Support Engineer II.
SMTA's CSMTPE Certification is a unique program that is sponsored by the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA), which recognizes and certifies competence across the entire SMT assembly process at an engineering level. This certification is one of the electronics assembly industry's most respected validations of process excellence.
Indium Corporation is a premier materials manufacturer and supplier to the global electronics, semiconductor, thin-film, and thermal management markets. Products include solders and fluxes; brazes; thermal interface materials; sputtering targets; indium, gallium, germanium, and tin metals and inorganic compounds; and NanoFoil®. Founded in 1934, the company has global technical support and factories located in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the USA.
For more information about Indium Corporation, visit www.indium.com or email jhuang@indium.com. You can also follow our experts, From One Engineer To Another® (#FOETA), at www.facebook.com/indium or @IndiumCorp.
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