FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SMT China Magazine Announces
The 2nd SMT China VISION Awards Winners
Hong Kong SAR, China---April 15, 2008--- SMT China Magazine hosted the 2nd annual SMT China VISION Awards Presentation Ceremony on April 8, 2008 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, in Everbright Hotel, Shanghai. This is currently the only program for the China electronic manufacturing industry. More than 200 guests from participating companies and professionals from the industry attended the Ceremony. There were 28 products from 26 companies received The SMT China VISION Awards, 15 products from 13 companies received the Excellence Awards, and 2 companies received the Chinese Achievement Awards.

※The rapid development of China electronic manufacturing industry has drawn the world*s attention. Inevitably, international and domestic SMT equipment, materials and services providers have made tremendous contributions to the growth of the industry,§ said Mr. Adonis Mak, President of ACT International Media Group and Publishing Director of SMT China magazine. ※In order to recognize their contributions, SMT China magazine launched the SMT China Vision Awards in 2007.§

In North America, the SMT Vision Awards are 16 years old. The event is organized by our sister publication in the United States, SMT Magazine. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious award programs of its kind in the U.S. ※The SMT China Vision Awards is similar to the program in the U.S. It is the unique and prestigious award program for China, participated and supported by world-class suppliers serving the industry in China, judged by experts in China, and Awards Presentation in China,§ continued, Adonis.

SMT China magazine invited a distinguished panel of independent judges who are highly recognized experts in the field of electronics manufacturing technology. Also invited were a small group of SMT China readers to provide their opinions. The SMT China readers invited include manufacturing engineers at some of China's biggest and most advanced manufacturing plants in computer and peripherals, communications, consumer products and automotive electronics industries.

Suggested by industry experts, judges and companies participated last year, the Vision Awards categories and the judging criteria were adjusted. The number of categories was expanded to 28 and was divided into 4 groups. The 10 Judging Criteria are Creativeness & Innovativeness, Performance, Reliability, Cost Effectiveness, Easy of Use, Flexibility, Compatibility, Quality Contributions, Environmental Responsibility, Maintainability/ Reparability/ Services.

Two SMT China Vision Awards -Chinese Achievement Awards were presented to two China-based companies. The Awards were to encourage their continuous R&D efforts and to endorse their achievements and contributions to the industry. Newly added this year was the SMT China Vision Awards - Excellence Awards category. This was established to recognize the products or services that attained the highest score in each individual judging criteria. There were 15 winners in total for the 10 judging criteria.

SMT China is the magazine for professionals in the field of China electronic manufacturing industry. Its mission is to provide information of manufacturing solutions to help engineers to solve problems in PCB assembly, and to provide them with latest technologies, methodology, tools, materials as well as analysis of industry trends.


CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lisa You
The Lightpoint PR
Lisayou@lightpoint.com.hk
Tel: (86) 21-29180904
Pauli Mak
Marketing Communications Manager
SMT China Magazine
Paulim@actintl.com.hk
Tel: (852) 28386298


Winners of The 2nd SMT China Annual VISION Awards include:

Vision Awards 每 Grand Awards ( 28 Winners )

Printing
Speedline Technologies Asia Pte Ltd.- MPM Momentum

Dispensing Equipment
Asymtek 每SpectrumTMS-920 Series Scalable Dispensing Solution

Pick-and-Place 每 High Speed
Siemens A&D EA China- SIPLACE X4i (X series)

Pick-and-Place 每 Mid Speed
Juki Corp.- JUKI FX3

Pick-and-Place 每Multi function
ESSEMTEC- FLX2011 Flexible Pick-and-Place System

Reflow Soldering
Heller Industries Inc.- 1913 MKk Reflow System

Wave Soldering
Speedline Technologies Asia Pte Ltd.- ELECTROVERT DwellMax Plus

Cleaning Equipment - Post Soldering
Aqueous Technologies 每Trident

Inspection & Testing-AOI ( 2 Winners)
CyberOptics Corp. - Flex ULTRA HR Automated Optical Test/Inspection System Viscom AG- S3088-II

Inspection & Testing- AXI
Agilent Technologies, Inc.- Agilent Medalist x6000 Automated X-Ray Inspection System

Inspection & Testing-ICT
Everett Charles Technologies- Gemini Spring Pin

Rework & Repair
VJ Electronix Inc. - Summit 2200 Advanced Rework Station

Hand Tools-Soldering
OK International 每 MFR Series Soldering System

Assembly Tools
Inovaxe Corp. - INOCART-MSD.

Process Control Tools
Electronic Controls Design, Inc. (ECD)- MEGAM.O.L.E.® 20 Profiler

Device Programming
BPM Microsystems 每Flashstream 每 Flash memory programmer family

Software-Process Control (2 Winners)
DEK International GmbH- InstinctivTM V9 KIC- KIC Explorer with Power Series

Software-Production
Juki Corp.- JUKI OPASS

Software-Management
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd.- vManage

Soldering Materials (2 Winners)
Indium Corporation- Indium 8.9 No-clean Pb-Free Solder Paste Nihon Superior/ Balver-Zinn/ DKL- SN100C

Materials - Flux
Cookson Electronics Limited - ALPHA®EF®-2210 Wave Solder Flux

Materials - Encapsulants/Underfills
Henkel Loctite (China) Co., Ltd. - Loctite 3536

Mateirals - Cleaning Materials
Kyzen Corporation 每AQUANOX A4625B

Environmentally/ Friendly Product/ Service
EVS International - EVS 1000 Solder Recovery System

RoHS Testing & Services
RMD Instruments- Lead-Tracer RoHS

Vision Awards -Excellence  (15 Winners)

Creativeness & Innovativeness
DEK International GmbH- Platium

Performance (2 Winners)
Fine Line Stencil of FCT Assembly- Slic-Blade Squeegee Blade Speedline Technologies Asia Pte Ltd. -MPM Momentum

Reliability
BTU International- Pyramax 100

Cost-Effectiveness
Juki Corp.- JUKI FX3

Ease of Use
Siemens A&D EA China- SIPLACE X4i (X Series)

Flexibility
Dage Trading (Suzhou) Co., Ltd- Dage XD7500NT

Compatibility
Siemens A&D EA China- SIPLACE X4i (X Series)

Quality Contribution
RMD Instruments- Lead-Tracer RoHS

Environmental Responsibility ( 3 Winners)
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd.- VManage Cookson Electronics Limited- ALPHA®EF-2210 Wave Solder Flux EVS International- EVS 1000 Solder Recovery System

Maintainability/ Reparability/ Service (3 Winners)
BTU International- Pyramax 100 Ovation Products- Magna-Print SMT Squeegee System KIC- KIC Explorer with Power Series

Chinese Achievement Awards (2 Winners)
Aleader Vision Technology Co. Ltd- ALD-A-700 AOI ICON Technologies- Icon i8 Fully Automatic Screen Printer

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