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News Release from: Henkel Loctite Adhesives
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2005
Mexican university helps with lead-free
research
Henkel and Monterrey Technology Institute are to conduct ground-breaking research on lead-free solders, provide superior local customer support and afford unmatched educational opportunities.
The Electronics Group of Henkel and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores Monterrey (Monterrey Technology Institute) have announced a historic partnership agreement in which the two will conduct ground-breaking research on lead-free solders, provide superior local customer support and afford unmatched educational opportunities The partnership agreement will provide Henkel customers with access to the latest materials research to help them prepare for the demands imposed by the ever-present changes in technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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One of the primary elements of the partnership is a research project in which the Henkel and Tec de Monterrey technical teams will study and characterise the compatibility behaviour of tin-lead and lead-free solder pastes with several component and PCB surface finishes.
The results of the study will be made available to Henkel customers.
This relationship also enables Henkel to provide its Mexican customer base with sophisticated local failure analysis and evaluation capabilities and the support of the Henkel technical team, including an application engineer who will reside on-site at Monterrey Tech.
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"We are very proud to be associated with Tec de Monterrey", says Gabriel Ortiz, Mexico and Central America Team Leader for the Electronics Group of Henkel.
"Mexico has been and continues to be a very important region for Henkel and we are certain that this partnership will prove invaluable to our customers, the students of Tec de Monterrey and the Mexican electronics community".
Under the terms of the partnership, Monterrey Tech will give the technical team from the electronics group of Henkel full access to the university's advanced SMT assembly line, its failure and analysis laboratories and support from the institution's leading educators and graduate students.
Henkel will provide the support of its technical staff, including several leading industry materials experts, an applications engineer to be stationed on-site and all necessary materials products.
In addition, Henkel will support the university and the Mexican electronics community with hands-on training, including lead-free technical workshops.
"Tec de Monterrey is the top university in Mexico, a leader in Latin-America, and we are delighted to be working with the world's top electronics materials supplier", says Dr Jorge A Manriquez Frayre of Tec de Monterrey.
"Both our undergraduate and graduate students and the local Mexican electronics community will benefit immensely from the opportunity to participate in leading-edge Pb-free research and electronics materials technology".
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