Building on its solid reputation for facilitating next-generation SMT and semiconductor print processes, DEK today announced that it has further expanded its Americas engineering capabilities with the investment of additional resource to support the company’s growing alternative energies business. Experienced staff and state-of-the-art equipment have been added to DEK’s San Jose, California-based engineering lab in response to growing demand from both start-up and established alternative energy businesses.
For over 40 years, the DEK Americas solutions engineering team has developed high throughput, high accuracy print processes for some of the most innovative new technologies that range from semiconductor to RFID to SMT. Now, the inherent efficiency, precision and speed of DEK’s screen and stencil printing processes are enabling modern solar and fuel cell applications as well.
Andy Ure, a DEK staff member for over 20 years, is leading the DEK Solar Americas team and overseeing alternative energy applications projects. “The R&D work that we are facilitating in this lab is impressive and market-changing,” explains Ure. “We are helping companies find more efficient methods for materials deposition, which ultimately saves them and their customers time and money while delivering a far more optimized and repeatable process. As a case-in-point, DEK just completed a wafer-level project that will enable a new handheld technology. For this particular application, the techniques afforded by printing will allow for as many as ten dispensers to be replaced with a single print system.
