Products/Services

Newbury Electronics offers you the knowledge and experience of a company which has been manufacturing PCBs since 1956.

Our services include:

Bare PCB fabrication (Multi-layer and Flexible PCBs), PCB assembly (SMD and thru-hole), Component procurement, Laser cut solder paste stencil manufacture, CAD layout, Easy-PC software sales, and Electronic design.

• Some of the benefits we offer:
• All our production processes are in-house. We are not dependent on outside contractors for critical processes such as laser cut solder paste stencils, automatic optical inspection, photo-plotting, multi-layer bonding or electrical testing.
• No more solder paste printing problems. Our immersion silver finish is perfectly flat.
• Reduce assembly problems because of missing holes or components that won’t fit the hole. We use drill machines with automatic loading of panels and automatic laser checking of drill sizes and drill breakage detection. Our drill machines will not drill unless they detect a drill of the correct size.
• Reduced incidence of solder-balling during reflow of solder paste because we apply a smooth satin finish solder.
• Better long-term reliability of your assembled product because we plate at least 25 microns of copper down the barrel of even the smallest hole. Z-axis cracking during thermal cycling is eliminated. We plate using the Reverse Pulse Plating technique and sample every PCB batch 5 times for the integrity and thickness of through hole copper plating.
• Reduced re-work because we electrically test every multi-layer PCB we make, no matter what the complexity. On small and medium batches we use fixtureless roving probe test techniques which saves you money on tooling costs.
• Reduced final test costs because our multi-layer PCBs have consistent electrical impedance characteristics. We X-ray drill every multi-layer panel to ensure that the registration of internal and external layers is optimised and remains within tolerance.
• Minimise production delays because of design errors. We perform a range of design rule checks. If we find an error, we can correct it (with your approval) and re-create photographic tooling within the hour because all our tooling facilities are in-house.
• Our component idents are clearer because we use either a digitally printed inkjet process or a high pigment oven cured legend ink rather than the cheaper low pigment UV cured process.
• All boards are vacuum packed in anti-static bubble wrap giving instant visibility of type & quantity, plus longer shelf life and lower moisture absorption. This reduces re-work after wave soldering.
• Getting us on your approved supplier list is easy. Our rigorous approach to quality is supported by UL and BS EN ISO 9002 approvals.
• We take the responsibility to optimise the panel design (step & repeat) of bare pcbs to suit our automatic SMD placement lines.