ITRI X-Ray Fluorescence Scientist Mark Dowling, successfully gave a presentation entitled “How a Camel failed RoHS” at the North West Club Europeen meeting held in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire on the 14th of April 2010.

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Dr. Wayne Lam has successfully been accepted to give a presentation entitled "Modern Laboratory Techniques for Detecting Counterfeit Components" at the 2010 CMSE Europe Conference and Exhibition being held in Portsmouth, 23-24 June. Please see find out more

ITRI, the international tin industry association, through its commercial subsidiary ITRI Innovation Ltd, is launching a new association management and events company. The company, which was acquired by ITRI Innovation last year, has been re-named Cognition AM Ltd and is planning to expand its find out more

Soldertec Global has launched a new ‘inspection while you wait’ service using the Dage XiDAT 7600 X-ray inspection system. It is also possible for Soldertec Global to guarantee a 24-hour turnaround for companies who prefer to ship the boards via courier. The ability of X-rays to find out more

Materials test house Soldertec Global and PCB Repair / Components test specialists Retronix have announced that they have formed a strategic alliance partnership to support the high reliability electronics manufacturing base in Europe. Access to the combined test services is seen to benefit both find out more

The pressure for shorter times to market is pushing electronic equipment manufacturers to look beyond their trusted supply chain for quick delivery of components which are difficult to source. This has led to the growth of component counterfeiting. find out more

Fireproof has recently installed an Instron 5569 tensile testing system at its St. Albans based laboratory. The new system has a load cell and speed range that enables Fireproof to experiment with both polymeric and metallic samples on the same equipment. The installation of the Instron 5569 adds find out more

From today, electronic products exported to China will be required to comply with Chinese RoHS regulations. A new test service offered by Soldertec Global has been established to help European exporters comply with this latest legislation. Many products outside the current scope of the EU WEEE find out more

Soldertec Global is the first UK customer to have taken delivery of the new Dage XiDAT digital X-ray inspection system with a 2 mega pixel camera. The XiDAT 2.0 image acquisition system is capable of capturing and displaying a 2 mega pixel image at a full 30 frames per second on a 24" find out more

Dublin based ACK Solutions have partnered leading electronics laboratory Soldertec Global to provide the Irish electronics industry with a RoHS Assurance screening service.
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