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Merlin Flex Ltd has continued its investment into the manufacture of its long flex capability with a new oil-heated vacuum lamination press with a bonding area of 1800mm by 750mm. This new investment enhances the company’s current capability of supplying Flexible Circuits up to 1.8 metre in one continuous length for its Defence, Aerospace & high-end automotive markets. Merlin Flex is currently manufacturing long flexible circuits in volume production up to 1.5M in length and currently has a maximum capability of 2.0 metre with a dual-lamination bond solution.
This new lamination press is the 3rd new investment the company has made this year with Viking Corp, following successful installation and commissioning of a new Pluritec Ecospray DS and a Microcraft CraftPix Digital Inkjet printer.
“The team at Merlin Flex have worked closely with the engineers from Viking to get all 3 machines fully installed, commissioned and production qualified in the same time period, and all 3 machines are already having a positive impact on the company’s daily manufacturing performance” says MD Mark Merifield.
