NETZSCH Promotes John Hill to Sales Manager

NETZSCH Fine Particle Technology, LLC has promoted John M. Hill to sales manager, mid-Atlantic region. He will manage all aspects of NETZSCH customer relationships in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and southern New York.

Hill is responsible for growing the customer base throughout those states for NETZSCH’s grinding division. He will be the key point of contact for NETZSCH customers from the initial meeting, through the purchasing process, including any lab trials, and in post-sale support, with the primary objective of increasing customers’ profitability.

Prior to his promotion, Hill was laboratory manager for NETZSCH’s Grinding and Dispersion Group. In that position, he developed dispersion and milling processes for products in the paint, ink, pharmaceutical, ceramics and other industries, and processes for dry powder size reduction and classification for mineral, toner, and ceramics industries, among others.

Previously, Hill was employed by Nashua Corporation, Nashua, NH, first as a process development engineer and then as project engineer. While there, he participated in a multimillion-dollar expansion of grinding and dispersion capacity for the manufacture of thermal paper coatings.

Hill holds both bachelor of science and master of science degrees in chemical engineering from Syracuse University.

“These system sales validate the importance of high-resolution x-ray tomography as a critical new analytical tool for semiconductor manufacturing,” said Dr. Wenbing Yun, founder and President of Xradia. “3D x-ray microscopy enables the non-destructive investigation of design features or process defects, thereby lowering development costs and speeding time to market, “said Yun. “The ROI of Xradia’s new x-ray microscope system was evident from the very first sample images,” said My Nguyen, senior researcher at Altera Corporation, one of the new system customers. “We are able to image features of interest not otherwise observable with other techniques. No sample prep means enormous cost savings and fast turn around time,” said Nguyen.

High resolution 3D x-ray tomography provides critical new imaging capability for semiconductor packaging, including C4 ball grid arrays, stacked die, solder bumps and packaging interconnects. Defects such as solder non-wet, cracks, voids, delamination, opens and shorts are readily imaged. New applications are also emerging for RoHS lead-free development and vias in ceramic packaging. Xradia also manufactures microscope systems with sub 50nm resolution for chip and die-level applications.

For more information, please visit www.xradia.com.

Polysciences, Inc. has released its updated 2006-2007 product catalog featuring expanded product and technical information. The new catalog details Polysciences’ broad product offering for chemical industry research professionals, including a section focused on materials for electronics applications.

Polysciences’ 2006-2007 catalog lists over 3,000 off-the-shelf products that are used by lab technicians, chemists, scientists and engineers in the fields of histology, microscopy, polymer chemistry, and life sciences. These products include fine and specialty chemicals, certified and fluorescent dyes, electrophoresis reagents, magnetic and non-magnetic particles, particle kits, microspheres, monomers, and polymers. To receive your free copy, visit www.polysciences.com.

NuSil Technology announces that it has opened its first technical support office in Asia.

This office will specialize in the areas of optoelectronics and electronic packaging, served by the company's Lightspan products and its line of low-outgassing electronic packaging materials respectively. T.Y. Lim, the application engineer heading the office in Penang, Malaysia, will support all of NuSil's customers, distributors and representatives in Asia.

According to a NuSil representative, Asia has always been a significant site for electronics manufacturing, and the company noticed recent growth in the Asian optoelectronics industry. NuSil has found success in its dedication to providing on-site technical support, as evidenced by the significant growth of its European operation since it opened in 1993. NuSil determined Asia as the logical next step in building a global infrastructure to serve its customers.

"The business in Asia has reached a critical mass, and we realized it was time to open a technical support office to service the region," said Brian Nash, vice president of Marketing and Sales. "We are at a point where we need a presence in Asia, and we found the right person to offer superior service to this important part of the world."
Lim has worked in the electronic/optoelectronic industry for several years as an R&D engineer and in technical support and sales. He has an MSc in Advanced Technology Manufacturing from the University of Portsmouth in England.

The Asia Field Office is located at 9-1 Tingkat Bukit Jambul, Bukit Jambul Indah, 11950, Penang, Malaysia. For more information, visit www.nusil.com.