Electronic Manufacturing Solutions (EMS) recently installed its second SMT line from Essemtec. The SMT line consists of a Tucano screen printer, Paraquda SMT machine with Jet valve dispenser, conveyors and an upgraded Zonda oven. EMS is also upgrading its original RO400FC reflow oven to a Zonda, resulting in two identical lines for the company, allowing production to be doubled.

At SMT 2014 in Nuremberg, Essemtec has introduced its next-generation storage tower, CUBUS. It features user-adjustable shelves that can be varied in 5 mm steps and are auto-configured. Thus reels in the range of 8-72mm are easily accommodated. The shelves occupy either two small 7" reels or one 13 or 15" reel, further optimising packing density without compromising flexibility. It can store 5-6 reels per minute. 

At SMT Hybrid Packaging 2014, 6-8 May 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany, Essemtec will introduce its next-generation storage tower, CUBUS. This storage system has user-adjustable shelves that can be varied in 5mm steps and are auto-configured. This enables 8-72mm reels to be easily accommodated.

Offering precise placement of all SMD components from 01005 up to large and complex components on a single machine, the Paraquda2 has been announced by Essemtec. This system provides an unmatched combination of minimal programming effort and, equipped with two high-speed placement axes, it is able to place up to 10,500cph.

At the 2014 NPI Awards, in the category of Component Placement – Multi-function, Essemtec took home the award for its multi-functional SMT Center. The award was presented to the company during a Tuesday, March 25, 2014 ceremony that took place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center during the IPC APEX EXPO. 

At the upcoming AUTOMATICON exhibition, taking place March 25 - 28 in Warsaw,Essemtec Poland will exhibit its Pantera XVC entry level SMT pick-and-place system in booth B28, hall 1. The Pantera-XVC, an entry level SMT pick-and-place system that ideally meets the standards of a high-mix/low-volume production. 

Jet printing is faster (up to 80'000 dots/h) and more precise than any other dispensing system for solder pastes. So far, jetting of pastes has only been possible with specially designed, costly solder pastes. The new system from Essemtec opens the range of pastes to most type 4, 5, 6 or 7 pastes.

At the IPC APEX Expo, March 25-27, 2014, Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Essemtec will debut its new SMT production centre in booth #851. The company has claimed that this is the first combined SMT production centre which is able to jet solder paste and mount components in one machine.

As a result of increased interest from the industry, Essemtec Benelux has announced the appointment of Dieter van Herrewege to its growing sales team. Starting with Essemtec at the beginning of January 2014, Dieter will use his strong sales and business development background to support customers in their decision process for highly flexible production equipment for electronics.

 After more than 22 years of successful business activity, the Ziehbrunner and Tschumi families have decided to pass on their reign of Essemtec to new investors. The private investors have an industrial background and will inject a substantial amount of capital to take advantage of the great potential of this innovative enterprise and to improve manufacturing capacity as well as distribution channels.

Due to technical progress with LEDs, ever more luminous semiconductors are coming onto the market. However, in order to replace the conventional light bulb, there are still some obstacles to be faced. One of them is now being overcome: MID technology and laser direct structuring are being presented with interesting new concepts at the “International LED professional Symposium.”

Essemtec’s high-speed Paraquda SMT pick-and-place system has recently been selected by Davlec Ltd, an electronics company based in Wales, specialising in the design and manufacture of control equipment for the dairy farming industry.  Due to the nature of Davlec’s diversification over the years into other areas of sub contract manufacturing, the company wanted to fully optimize its flexibility to suit current and future business ...

The market requires highest flexibility from electronics manufacturers. Placement speed not only influences production cost but also the networking, integration, simulation capabilities and machine capacities. SMART Solution from Essemtec is the world’s first modular system that enables complete optimization of SMT production. By Adrian Kühnis, Azular GmbH, Switzerland.

A traceability solution should be able to assign assembly data to products without any doubt. Many systems, however, are likely to fail if there is manual intervention. Essemtec has now invented the integrated PCB identification system that no longer can be bypassed.

Essemtec expands its range of machines with the new pick-and-place machine FLEXUS. The machine is tied to the established FLX system, but offers a greater flexibility in the high-mix/mid-volume sector. For years, Essemtec’s FLX was the world’s most popular pick-and-place machine for flexible SMD production. Many specific customer applications were solved using the FLX and a wide range of options and accessories have been designed for ...

Essemtec announces that it will exhibit numerous flexible Swiss-made solutions in Booth 7, Hall 211 at the SMT Hybrid Packaging exhibition and conference, scheduled to take place April 16-18, 2013 at the Messezentrum in Nuremberg, Germany.

Fino from Essemtec, will be presented at SMT Nuremberg 2013 with a larger touch screen for easier operation, as well as with two larger video monitors for a simple adjustment of stencils and substrates. Additionally the high-resolution cameras can accommodate a larger zoom.

Essemtec is pleased to announce that it implemented eez-technology for its dispensing system Scorpion. eez-technology is already successfully used on the pick-and-place machines Paraquda and Cobra.

Effective August 1, 2012 Essemtec welcomed a well-known, competent specialist to its team. Jürgen Seibert joined the company as its new manager for the demo & training center. Jürgen Seibert has been involved in electronics assembly technology for more than 25 years. This experience has given him a wide knowledge that ranges from system and application specialist to demo/training manager and project management to experience as an SMT production...

In February 2013 Essemtec announced that they have set up a company profile on LinkedIn. The new platform provides useful company and technological information as well as a comprehensive product overview.