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MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions to Showcase Board Level Reliability Solutions at FIEE Brazil 2023
July 11, 2023 | MacDermid Alpha Electronics SolutionsEstimated reading time: 1 minute

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, a leader in integrated materials and technologies for the electronics industry, will showcase its integrated solutions of high-reliability solder pastes, alloys, reinforcement, and protective polymers engineered to deliver best-in-class board level reliability. The FIEE Brazil Electronics Tradeshow is taking place July 18-21, 2023, in São Paulo, Brazil. The MacDermid Alpha team looks forward to meeting show visitors at booth L81.
Ensuring board level reliability is critical, as the demands for performance and longevity increase, especially for harsh end-use environments, such as automotive and telecommunications infrastructure. MacDermid Alpha will feature their portfolio of integrated solutions including the high-reliability Innolot™ alloy, innovative ALPHA® CVP-390V and OM-565 solder pastes, ALPHA® HiTech, and Electrolube reinforcement and protective polymers. When used in an optimum combination, they provide exponentially improved device performance and reliability. These material sets have been rigorously tested in combination to provide optimized solutions for customers’ reliability requirements, and to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership.
"Reliability performance is a constant concern for our customers," said Eduardo Carqueijo, MacDermid Alpha’s South America Marketing and Sales Manager. "With the integrated solutions material set combinations, we provide customers and their supply chains, with the reassurance that these material pairings will produce the greatest reliability that they require."
MacDermid Alpha has long maintained a strong presence of sales and manufacturing expertise in Brazil, supporting customers throughout South America. In addition to offering a full suite of high-performing materials for surface mount and wave soldering applications, including solder pastes and alloys, solder preforms, underfills and edgebonds, liquid soldering flux, cored wire, and surface mount adhesives, they also offer electronics assemblers safe and efficient solder recycling services to support their efforts to meet expanding environmental and sustainability goals.
Established brands aligned under MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions include Alpha®, Compugraphics, Electrolube®, Kester®, and MacDermid Enthone®, bringing manufacturers a fully integrated ‘start-to-finish’ roadmap featuring some of the most advanced technologies on the market.
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