Indium Corporation has earned the CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY New Product Introduction (NPI) Award for its Core 230-RC flux-cored wire at the IPC APEX Expo technical conference on February 27 in San Diego, Calif.
The NPI Awards recognize the leading new products for electronics assembly during the past 12 months. Honorees are selected by an independent panel of practicing engineers.
"Developing Core 230-RC and having the electronics assembly industry recognize it as a leading new product, is truly a great honor," said Tim Twining, Vice President, Marketing. "I am very proud of our team and the work they have done to develop and deliver this high-performance product to our customers."
Indium Corporation's Core 230-RC is a new REACH- and RoHS-compliant, J-STD-004B tested and compliant "no-spatter" formula cored wire.
"In 2017, Indium Corporation sold more than 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) of 0.2 mm diameter flux-cored wire on 114-gram level wound spools," said Eric Slezak, Director of Business Development and Printed Circuit Board Assembly. "Indium Corporation is the only company that can put ¼ lb. of 0.2 mm cored wire on a level wound spool in volume and ensure no tangling or feeding issues. This enables a more efficient and lengthy robotic soldering process."
Core 230-RC delivers an exceptionally impressive 0.09% total flux spatter, as tested per IPC TM-650 2.4.48. "No-spatter" is important so that flux does not contaminate gold fingers or other contacts where it can interfere with circuit board electrical properties, or spatter hot flux on operators' hands. It is available in lead-free, tin-lead, and high-lead cored wires. In lead-free cored wire the available diameters are from 0.008" (0.2mm) up to 0.125" and flux weight content from 1.0% to 4.5%.
Indium Corporation è uno dei principali produttori e fornitori di materiali per i mercati globali dell'elettronica, dei semiconduttori, dei film sottili e della gestione termica. I prodotti includono saldature e flussanti, brasature, materiali per interfacce termiche, target per sputtering, metalli e composti inorganici di indio, gallio, germanio e stagno e NanoFoil®. Fondata nel 1934, l'azienda dispone di un'assistenza tecnica globale e di stabilimenti situati in Cina, Malesia, Singapore, Corea del Sud, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti.
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