SMTAi Exhibitors Collaborate to Showcase Products
Live@SMTAi is a new event at SMTAi that provides an opportunity for industry partners to collaborate to showcase materials so customer can see both eq...
Soldering Materials
Assured Solder Recycling Program
Not sure what to do with your solder dross or contaminated solder? Let Indium Corporation make it easy for you with our Assured Recycling Program....
Indium Corporation...We Are Everywhere!
Trade shows remain a key vehicle to showcase our products and meet with our customers to discuss challenges and opportunities. You can use them ...
Metal Loading in Solder Paste - A Review (Part 1)
Three IPC test methods are used to guarantee to customers that they are getting the same material (within agreed tolerances). However o...
Handbook of Electronic Assembly Now Available
Folks, It is hard to imagine, but it has been just a little short of 13 years ago that Jim Hall, Phil Zarrow and I approached SMTA’s JoAnn Strom...
What is an Intern to Do?
The Indium Corporation has many summer interns this year. The technical support group was fortunate enough to hire Sarah Bjornland (pictured). She is ...
Applying Solder Preforms - Testing the Assembly
Finally – the fun part! After all of your work specifying the right materials and applying them, at last we can test all of the assumptions we h...
Changing the Composition of Your Tin-Lead Solder Pot
In today’s electronics manufacturing industry, many companies are using lead-free solder alloys. However, there are a few sectors in the industr...
Tim Jensen Discusses Becoming Co-Editor with Maria Durham for Advancing Electronics Magazine
Recently I heard about two of my friends (and co-workers) taking on an additional responsibility in the electronics industry. Tim Jensen (Senior Produ...
Applying Solder Preforms – Compression
Most people think of our alloys only in the ‘soldering’ sense. However, these same materials may be used in applications where they aren&r...
Making Solder Preforms
Once an order is placed for the solder preforms that you have specified, Indium Corporation begins the manufacturing process promptly; we have a lot o...
Design Solutions for Engineered Solders
Today’s technology simplifies the translation of an idea into a design. A drawing can be dimensioned in an instant. Thermal models and str...