PCB manufacturing equipment

We constantly invest in new equipment and processes so that we can offer both high quality products and reliable service. By using the latest technologies for PCB fabrication, we are able to offer fast production times as well as fine-line PCBs.

Our capital expenditure year by year regularly exceeds 10% of our turnover.

In 2020/21 we achieved complete digitalisation of all PCB printing production processes.  This is the culmination of a journey that started 14 years ago. For our standard production, no photographic or screen printing processes are now used and problems caused by scratched photography, thermal expansion, damaged tooling holes, and handling are eliminated.

A high-light of the year 2021/2 is the installation of production machines capable of drilling holes down to 0.1 mm diameter.

Tooling
  • 5 x UCAMCO CADCAM tooling seats
  • EIE Photoplotter RP208ST & conveyor
Wet Processing Equipment
  • Ammoniacal etch, dry film stripping, tin strip (2020)
  • Chemical Clean Line
  • Permanganate de-smear line with solvent swell (2017)
  • Sterling Silver line, feeders, & stackers
  • Multibond black oxide line
  • Tin Stripping Line
  • Dry Film Stripping Line
  • 3 x Kraft Q150 Modupulse plating PSUs (2018)
  • Electrolytic copper plating line, with x 6 independently controlled flight bars (2018)
  • 2 x CDO/DH Brush cleaning machines
  • Blackhole line
  • Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold Line (2020)
  • Fume extraction system
  • GenLab LCO/750V/TDIG/AP Oven (2020)
Waste Treatment
  • Water softener, ion exchange unit (2017)
  • Waste water carbon scrubbing treatment facility (2015)
  • Vacuum dust extraction unit x 3 (2016)
  • ARO water filtration band filters x 2 (2016)
Drill Shop
  • 1 x Lenz DRB 610 1+1 AL drill/router (2021) autoload/unload
  • 3 x Lenz DLG615 1+1 drill/router autoload/unload
  • LPKF TRACKS 5120 UV laser milling machine (2018)
  • Antares X-ray drilling tooling machine (2016)
  • Automatic drill/pinning machine (2020)
  • Guillotine - model Baileigh SH-5210 (2020)
Multi-layer
  • Burkle 3 daylight Vacuum Multi-layer Press (2020)
  • Piergiacomi MBM-4000 multi-layer registration welder (2018)
Legend Print
  • EMMA Microcraft legend printer MJP6151 (2016)
Electrical Test
  • 2 x EMMA Microcraft ELX 6146S moving probe electrical tester
  • 1 x EMMA Microcraft EMX6151 moving probe electrical tester
Management
  • Softwires PCP2
Photomech
  • 2 x Semi-automatic laminators (2018)
  • 1 x UV printers (Colight)
  • 2 x Muscat conveyorised developing lines
  • 2 x SCHMOLL 3-Head MDI-ST mirror direct imaging printers (2021)
Inspection
  • CIMS Galaxy-30 AOI System (2020)
  • Starlite 200 Digital Microscope
  • Polar CITS900s controlled impedance test system
  • Fischerscope X-Ray XDLM-PCB200 coating thickness measuring machine (2021)
  • Micro-section polisher Buehler EcoMet 30 (2018)
Handling
  • Caterpillar LPG powered forklift GP15
  • Heat sealing unit
Compressed Air
  • Atlas Copco GA11 VSD variable speed drive air compressor (2016)
  • Atlas Copco GA18 VSD variable speed drive air compressor (2015)