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PCB Imaging Materials

Exopack Tecnilith Artwork Protection Film for Silver halide Masters

Description:  Optically Clear Film, 100% U.V. transmission for Fine-line resolution.  High level anti-static properties and removes without leaving residue.

Benefits:

  • Protects against scratches
  • Protects against chemical spills
  • Protects against abrasions/mishandling
  • Prevents phototool sticking
  • Easy registration
  • Resists Dry Film Chips
  • Improves productivity and yields


Dimensions: Custom sizes are available on request.             

  • Thickness: 1/4 mil and 1/8 mil (fine line resolution)
  • Length: 500 feet 

Specialty Exposure Bulbs

Description:  Bulbs for all exposure, flip-top, & screen printing equipment. 

Types Available:

  • Equipment OEM Bulbs
  • After Market Bulbs         
  • Microscope Bulbs
  • Fliptop Bulbs
  • Screen Printing Bulbs
     

EZ-clean" Processor Sheets

Description:  Unique, moisture activated cleaning formulation strips away the "scuzzies" from any size transport rollers in a single pass, without removing the rack and without the use of hazardous chemicals.

Processing:  Insert the sheet with the glossy side down to clean lower rollers. As the sheet exits the processor, turn the glossy side up.

Dimensions: Custom sizes are available on request.

  • Standard Size: 16x24

Diazo Phototool

Description:  DuPont Imagemaster Diazo PhotoTool produces high quality duplicates from silver halide originals for dry film photoresist and LPI exposures. Specifically designed and enhanced for PWB imaging, with excellent resistance to soldermask attack for longer phototool life.

Dimensions: Custom sizes are available on request.

Exposure Films

Description: UV Exposure Film allows air pockets to be quickly evacuated during vacuum draw-down

Dimensions: Custom sizes/tooling is available on request.

  • Clear Mylar - Thickness: 4 & 7 mil
  • Embossed Mylar - Thickness: 4 mil (Colight Tooled)
  • A/S Mylar

Miscellaneous

  • Diazo Touchup Pens                       
  • Stouffer 21 Step Wedges
  • Resist Touchup Pens                     
  • Film Cleaner                                      
  • Polyester Wipes              
  • Glass Cleaner
 

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Tacky Product for Contaminate-Free Environments

PUMA-tak Adhesive Rollers

Description:

  • Handheld Cleaning System is designed for particulate contaminant cleaning
  • Particles down to one micron are removed from the substrate
  • System cleans by passing the roller over a flat surface
  • Tacky polymer of the roller lifts particles from the surface without liquids or sprays
  • Roller can be cleaned by passing it directly onto the Cleaning pad surface

Application areas:
  • The ideal solution before dry film lamination, AOI, for photo tools and clean rooms or any application where particles should be removed from a flat surface

PUMA-tak Pads               
  • 9.5“ x 13“, 50 sheets/pad, 5 pads/box

PUMA-tak Hand Rollers              
  • 30° handle (Plastic or Metal handle)
  • Tack level: Low (Black), Medium (Red), High (Blue)
  • Roller width: 6” or 12”
 
Description:
  • Removes debris that can damage expensive drilling tools, prevent clear imaging, and cause false alarms
  • Waterproof properties enable longer shelf life
  • Compatible with all cleaning roller machines
  • Tacky adhesive side will not degrade or leave any residue

Application areas:
  • Useful in phototool, photoresist, imaging, AOI, lamination, and small drilling processes

Dimensions:   Custom sizes are available on request.
  • Standard Width: 24.5”, 27” or 30”
  • Length: 66 Feet
  • Core: 3 and 6 inch

Description: Tacky floor mats for contamination free environments
  • Removes unwanted particulates from shoes and cart wheels
  • Resistant to adhesive transfer and sheet-to-sheet delamination
  • Water based adhesive
  • Adhesive backing to secure mats to the floor
  • White color to monitor cleanliness
  • Each individual sheet is numbered
  • 30 sheets/mats, 4 mats/case

Dimensions: Custom sizes are available on request.
  • 18x36, 18x45
  • 24x36, 24x45 
  • 26x45
  • 36x36, 36x45, 36x60
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Lamination Materials
Kraft Paper Press Pad

Description: Brown Kraft Paper ensuring uniform heat rise and pressure distribution

Properties: Basis Weight: 99# and 112#

Dimensions: Custom sizes and tooling are available on request.
 
Skived Teflon Release Film (PTFE)

Description: 
  • High temperature application release film (500F)
  • Offers outstanding heat and chemical resistance
  • High dielectric strength and anti-stick properties

Properties: 
  • Conformal properties for Flex Circuit Lamination
  • Via Plugging properties     
Dimensions: Custom sizes and tooling are available on request.
  • Roll Width: 20” & 26” available
  • Standard thickness: 1, 2, & 3 mil

Standard Vacuum Lamination

  • Green VBGR operating T 424°F  Thickness: 3 mil
  • PSTAPE200 operating T 600°F
  • BFN106050 Rolls: Width: 60” x 50yds; 10 + 1oz./yd2
  • High temperature Vacuum Lamination
  • Blue VBBL operating T 500°F  Thickness: 3 mil
  • PSTAPE200 operating T 600°F
  • BFN106050 Rolls: Width: 60” x 50yds; 10 + 1oz./yd2

Red Rubber Pads

Information:
  • Silicon Rubber Press Pads-3320 and 4444

Description:
  • Provide uniform cushioning and precise control over heat rise and long life-up to 150 uses
  • Faster lay-up, put talcum powder before use.

Properties: 
  • Cured re-enforced silicone red rubber on both sides
  • Average pad life: 150 cycles (temperature and time dependant)
  • Product Operating Temperature: 600 °F
Dimensions: Custom sizes are available on request.
  • Overall thickness: .062”
  • Standard Width: 36”
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PCB Drill Room Materials

Brown Phenolic Entry

Description
 

  • Thicknesses: .010, .016, .024, and .040
  • Brown Phenolic Glossy finish
  • Hardness: 90, Shore D Scale
  • Surface: Proprietary phenolic formulation
Features & Benefits
  • Longer drill life
  • Improved hole wall quality
  • Greater drilling efficiency
  • Reduced hole wall smear
  • Improved drill registration
  • Excellent for Flex Circuit Drilling and Routing
Dimensions: Custom sizes and tooling available upon request

White Melamine Entry

Description
  • Thicknesses: .016 & .024
  • White Melamine Glossy surface
  • Hardness: 90, Shore D Scale
  • Surface: Proprietary melamine formulation
Features & Benefits
  • Longer drill life
  • Improved hole wall quality
  • High visibility of drill and hole
  • Reduced hole wall smear
  • Improved drill registration
  • Excellent for Flex Circuit Drilling and Routing
Dimensions: Custom sizes and tooling available upon request

LCOA Drilling Solutions


For information about LCOA’s wide range of backup and entry products visit www.lcoa.com

Description:  A dimensionally stable translucent green or red plastic sheet designed for visually checking drilled holes located in the printed circuit boards.

Benefits:
  • Assures outstanding dimensional stability for accurate N/C drill hole pattern inspection
  • Eliminates art reproduction and provides fast and accurate quality control
  • Excellent ink receptivity for marking missing or mis-registered holes
Dimensions:
  • Colors: Green or Red
  • Sizes: 24”x36”, 24”x48”
  • 50 sheets/case
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Screen Print
Screen Stencil Film

Description:  PUMA-Cap is the new economically priced, diazo-based capillary film is a convenient, dependable performer with a reputation for producing trouble-free screens. The "workhorse" capillary film for use with UV, solvent-based and plastisol inks. For screen makers demanding high edge definition and reliable durability at a price value.

Benefits:
  • Superior film penetration and adhesion, easy washout
  • Excellent solvent resistance
  • New and improved color for easy registration


Rolls dimensions: Custom size rolls and sheets are available on request. 
 

Description:  PUMA-Star is a RED indirect gelatin screen film with wide processing latitude & excellent imaging properties for the circuit board industry.

Benefits:
 

  • Faster washout = faster processing and less risk of scum in open areas
  • Latent image forms in the developer = assured processing before the washout step
  • Better imaging properties = higher quality printing
  • Wider exposure latitude = greater flexibility in stencil production
  • Less prone to curl under low humidity = taping to contact glass is unnecessary
  • Emulsion is less prone to separate from the backing sheet (from age or low humidity) = production sheets can be cut in advance; better storage latitude
  • Easier to reclaim = treatment to remove color haze is unnecessar


Rolls dimensions: Custom size rolls and sheets are available on request. 

Screen Check Film/Tape

Description: 

  • For protecting circuit boards during set up for screen-printing     
  • Reduces scrap due to printing errors and eliminates board clean up time by checking registration on the film, not the board.

Dimensions:
  • Standard Roll Sizes: 18 and 24 in. x 600ft.
  • Thickness : 4 & 5 mil
Vacuum Exposure Unit
  • 3000W Instant-Start Metal Halide Megalume® Point Light Source.
  • Auto-Optimize™ Technology will determine the optimum exposure for all materials, in one step. The optimal exposure for a material or application is programmed so each set of materials is consistent and error-free, time after time.
  • Specially designed deep-well blanked for intimate contact, with no annoying air strings.
  • Double gas-assisted cylinders for easy maintenance of unit.
  • Lithium battery backup in our Light integrator.
  • Disassembles easily to fit through a 30" opening.
  • Works in a Drawer for easy maintenance and service.
  • The reliability and dependability of ALL exposure systems
  • carrying the Industry Leading, exclusive Three Year limited warranty.
 
Miscellaneous
  • Newsprint Blotter Paper            
  • Exposure Lamps
  • Squeegee Blades and Handles  
  • Stainless Stell & Polyester Screen Mesh
  • Stencil Remover
  • Screen Opener Spray
  • Screen Degreaser
  • Screen Cleaner
  • Stencil Masking Tape
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DuPont MCM CB100 Via Fill Product Line
This high performance viaplug product line has been developed to planarize high density PWBs, enhance both thermal and electrical conductivity for applications ranging from BGAs, buried vias or PWBs with microvia layers.

DuPont is the largest supplier of thick film pastes in the world

  • Manufacturing in 6 countries
  • R&D and Applications Technology Group in RTP, NC
  • Offices worldwide
Polymer Thick Films (PTF) are screen printable polymer pastes
Thermally or UV cured
PTF conductor products are filled with Silver or Copper flakes

PTF products for PWB applications include
  • CB028 Silver Conductor for Flex Circuits
  • CB200 Copper Shielding Paste for Rigid Circuits
  • CB100 Conductive ViaPlug

Why Fill Vias?

Performance Enhancement
  • Via-in-Pad
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Surface Planarization (Sequential build-up)
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Buried Vias

Traditional Uses
  • Vacuum in-circuit testing
  • Non-solder vias
  • Prevention of contaminant penetration
  • Increased reliability

CB100 Conductive ViaPlug Benefits

  • Higher thermal conductivity than traditional epoxies
  • Higher reliability through electrical conductivity
  • Increased board density
  • Via in pad technology
  • Surface planarization for sequential build-up technology
  • Reduced cost
  • Plated through hole replacement for buried vias
  • Reduced plating thickness for through holes
  • Low capital investment

Range of Applications:
  • Redistribution with Microvias
  • BGAs
  • Inner-layers with Buried vias
Miscellaneous
  • Newsprint Blotter Paper
  • Squeegee Blades
  • Screen Mesh
  • Exposure Lamps
  • Stencil Remover
  • Screen Opener Spray
  • Vacuum Exposure Units
  • Screen Degreaser
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Electrical Test Material

White Lynx Fixture Plates

Description:  White Lynx Fixture Plates
 

  • New Low Cost Substitute for Lexan/G10 Fixture material
Properties:
  • Stable in X, Y, & Z Axis
  • Faster drilling than any clear plastic or FR4.
  • Clean holes for easier & faster test pin loading.
  • Excellent for counter boring - No burrs; no bird nesting; no clogging
  • Drill small holes for 10 & 12 mil diameter test pins
  • Easy on the drilling machine vacuum system
  • Maximizes drill / router life. Extended drill bit life – 300 to 400 %
  • Cost competitive with polycarbonates & other plastics

Dimensions:  Custom sizes & tooling available on request
  • Thickness (inch): .030, .062, .093, .125, .187

Information:

Polycarbonate Fixture Plates

Description:  Polycarbonate Sheet

Properties:  Transparent test fixture plates

Dimensions:  Custom sizes & tooling available on request

Thickness (inch): .030, .062, .093, .125, .187

Unclad G10/FR4 Fixture Plates

Description:  Unclad G10/FR4 Fixture Plates

Properties:  Rigid glass laminate for fixture stability

Dimensions:  Custom sizes & tooling available on request

Thickness (inch): .030, .062, .093, .125, .187

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PCB Tapes
  • HASL Tape C663
  • Tin Lead Red Plating Masking Tape M717
  • Area Mask/Fume TapeM734
  • Area Mask Tape M788
  • SMOBC Blue Plating Tape M803
  • Polymide Tape 
  • Copper Tape
  • Masking Tape
  • Imaging Tape
  • Double Sided Tape
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