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Alpha, the world leader in the production of electronic soldering and bonding materials, will be a Gold Level Sponsor for the Global Summit for Advanced Manufacturing (GSAM) event for the second year in a row. This unique event, created for manufacturers, by manufacturers, and of manufacturers, comes to Santa Clara, CA on November 13th (co-located with K-TECH Silicon Valley, which starts on November 12).
GSAM was established to explore practical solutions for today’s most pressing manufacturing challenges. Under the shared theme with K-TECH, “Automated Future: Human + Technology”, GSAM will feature case study-based presentations, networking opportunities and one-on-one individual meeting sessions in collaboration with K-TECH on how to leverage today’s successfully developed and manufactured products to yield viable solutions for the emerging manufacturing leaders of tomorrow.
“We are excited to showcase industry and academic leaders in manufacturing for GSAM 2015”, said GSAM co-chair Dr. Gene Kim of Alpha. “The co-location with K-TECH Silicon Valley will showcase ideas and implementations in the area of materials, displays, automobiles, robotics, wearables, and automation, just to name a few.”
“The topic selected for this year's GSAM is considered one of the greatest megatrends that we will experience for the next five years. Its ability to deliver on the optimistic projections is highly dependent on the delivery of numerous manufacturing innovations. GSAM coupled with the robust attendance of past K-TECH Silicon Valley events provides an environment to nurture creativity and collaboration to catalyze manufacturing innovations. I am looking forward to seeing my colleagues and to establishing new partners at GSAM 2016." says GSAM co-chair Dr. Dan Gamota of Jabil Circuit.
“We are very excited - not only to hear from the presenters at GSAM, but to interact with them through networking opportunities with Korean companies at K-TECH to further collaborate and manufacture better products for the Creative Economy future.” adds Mr. ChangYup Na, General Manager of KOTRA Silicon Valley.
“Last year’s GSAM was an outstanding event and illustrated how advanced manufacturing is tied together across industries. Attendees expressed strong support for continuing GSAM as it provided them with examples and solutions for manufacturing challenges that are not otherwise discussed outside facility walls. Additionally, GSAM can become a platform for meeting other manufacturers facing similar challenges”, adds Michael Ciesinski, President of FlexTech Alliance.
About GSAM
GSAM was conceived by professional manufacturers across multiple industry sectors who share a passion for manufacturing and recognize the need for a forum in which experts can share real-world, readily applicable information – ultimately, speeding time to market for all. GSAM serves industry sectors ranging from electronics, technology, food and medical/pharmaceuticals to sports and leisure, textiles and more—all of which confront similar challenges in product design, manufacture and commercialization.
About Alpha
Alpha, a business unit of Alent plc, is the global leader in the development, manufacturing and sales of innovative specialty materials used in a wide range of industry segments, including electronics assembly, power electronics, die attach, LED lighting, photovoltaics, semiconductor packaging, automotive and others.
With a unique global presence in over 30 locations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions, Alpha supplies a full line of ALPHA® electronics assembly material products, including Solder Paste, Exactalloy® Solder Preforms, Cored Solder Wire Solder, Wave Soldering Fluxes, Bar Solder Alloys, and Stencils. It offers die attach product technologies to the power electronics segment in its Argomax®, Atrox™, Maxrel™, and Fortibond™ brands.
For the LED segment, Alpha offers its Lumet™ products covering applications from die attach to systems assembly in the LED manufacturing process. Alpha also offers product technologies for the Photovoltaic segment, including high performance liquid fluxes and solder alloys for producing standard ribbon and bus bar, as well as, liquid fluxes, solder pastes, cored wire, conductive adhesives and preforms for use in used in PV module assembly. Also, Alpha’s Advanced Materials unit is the leader in electronic polymers and solder materials for semiconductor packaging applications.
Since its founding in 1872, Alpha has been committed to developing and manufacturing the highest quality specialty materials. For more information, visit www.alpha.alent.com.
