Top Performing Companies Honored at EM Asia Innovation Awards 2008

EM Asia Innovation Awards 2008 has announced its winners at a cocktail reception at the Shanghai Everbright International Hotel. Top performing companies were recognized for achieving the highest standards in the various manufacturing-related products, materials and equipment introduced and offered for sale in Asia between March 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

This year’s Awards garnered over 50 percent more entries from the previous year. 24 awards were handed out ranging from assembly line tools, cleaning materials, production management systems to wave soldering equipment. Key industry associations including iNEMI, IPC, SMTA, Tsinghua University SMTLAB and Guangzhou Electronics Manufacturing Association (SMT) were present to show support for this awards program.

“EM Asia Innovation Awards has gained solid recognition from the industry since its inaugural year in 2006. The strong support from the industry is a firm endorsement of EM Asia as the media of choice for the electronics manufacturing industry within Asia,” said June Tan, Publisher of EM Asia. “We will continue to evolve to stay relevant and provide industry players with a driving force that truly recognises excellent performance. All the winners tonight made major contributions towards their respective fields and truly deserved the Awards.”

The ceremony brought together close to 200 industry professionals who celebrated the joyous occasion with the award winning companies.

The recipients of the 2008 EM Asia Innovation Awards are:

1. Adhesive/Coating/Encapsulating Materials
Company: Henkel Corporation
Product: Loctite 3536

2. Assembly Line Systems/Equipment
Company: Ovation Products
Product: Magna-Print SMT Squeegee System

3. Cleaning Equipment
Company: Aqueous Technologies
Product: Trident

4. Cleaning Materials
Company: Kyzen Corporation
Product: AQUANOX A4625B

5. Contract Services
Company: Surface Mount Technology (Holdings) Limited

6. Dispensing Systems/Equipment
Company: Asymtek, A Nordson Company
Product: Select Coat SL-940E Conformal Coating System

7. Environmentally Friendly Products/Materials
Company: Cookson Electronics
Product: ALPHA EF-2210 Wave Solder Flux

8. Environmentally Friendly Production Equipment
Company: EVS International
Product: EVS 1000 Solder Recovery System

9. Identification Systems
Company: Polyonics
Product: XF-546 Thermal Transfer Printable White Polymide Label Stock

10. Inspection Equipment–AOI
Company: Cyberoptics
Product: Flex ULTRA HR Automated Optical Test/Inspection System

11. Inspection Equipment - X-ray
Company: Dage Trading (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
Product: Dage XiDAT XD7500NT X-ray Inspection System

12. Manual Soldering Equipment
Company: OK International
Product: PS-900 Soldering System

13. Pick and Place Systems/Equipment
Company: Siemens
Product: SIPLACE X4i

14. Process Control Systems
Company: KIC
Product: KIC Explorer with Power Series

15. Production Equipment – Alternative Energy
Company: BTU International
Product: In-Line Diffusion System

16. Production Management Systems
Company: Valor
Product: vManage

17. Programming Systems/Equipment
Company: BPM Microsystems
Product: Flashstream - C Flash memory programmer family

18. Reflow Soldering Equipment
Company: Speedline Technologies
Product: Electrovert Intelligent Flux Control (IFC) with RunMax Technology

19. Repair/Rework Equipment
Company: VJ Electronix
Product: Summit 2200 Advanced Rework Station

20. Stencil & Screen Printing Systems/Equipment
Company: DEK
Product: Platinum

21. Soldering Materials
Company: Nihon Superior / Balver-Zinn / DKL Metal / FCT Assembly
Product: SN100C

22. Test Systems/Equipment
Company: Agilent Technologies
Product: Medalist VTEP v2.0

23. Wave Soldering Equipment
Company: Speedline Technologies
Product: Electrovert DwellMax Plus Nozzle System

24. Best Supplier
Company: Test Research, Inc.

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