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ALPHA® Liquid Soldering Flux and the Increase in Selective Soldering

There has been a rapid increase in the use of selective soldering equipment for PCB assembly driven by the need to reduce equipment costs, reduce equipment footprints and lower solder inventory cost. The reduction in the use of through hole devices has also hastened the move to increased selective soldering. However, there are some technical challenges that must be met when considering selective soldering, such as tighter component spacing, more complex board designs and the increased need to control flux spread.

ALPHA Argomax Advanced Sinter Technology Enables High Volume Manufacturing

How do you increase the performance of your products?  What are the key technologies needed to achieve your design objectives?  One thing is for sure.  Change is constant in the electronics industry, and it is rapid!  Customers demand new products that offer more: more reliability, more efficiency, more operating life, and more power to mention a few of those demands. 

Enabling Halogen Free Electronic Assemblies

Alpha Halogen-Free Product Technologies for SMT Processes

Alpha has worked diligently to offer its customers a full range of halogen-free product technologies for SMT processes that comply with RoHS standards and with the IEC and JPCA halogen content specifications, thereby enabling the manufacture of halogen-free assemblies

Conflict Minerals

The Conflict-Free Tin Initiative (CFTI) was launched on Sept. 18, 2012, by the Dutch Government within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which includes several electronics industry companies, including Alpha, and welcomes participation by other companies, mines, smelters, component manufacturers, and product manufacturers (end-users).  The success of this Initiative will be determined by the degree of industry participation in the closed-pipe supply system it has proposed.

Alpha Customer Value Six Sigma Project Raises Productivity by 30%

Alpha’s customer, a manufacturer of electrical products located in China, was faced with a problem and no apparent solution when Dan Yeung, Alpha’s salesperson for that area, stepped in and offered a Six Sigma customer value project to provide an answer.