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DEAL WITH FUBA TUNISIA MAKES FOR SMILES ON PAL'S STAND
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There were smiling faces on the PAL - Process Automation International Ltd
- stand at Productronica yesterday (7 November 2001) when Mr Slim Sellami,
Managing Director of Fuba Printed Circuits Tunisia, signed a contract with
Mr Geoff Paterson, Managing Director of PAL for the supply of two new PAL
machines. And that was not the only good news PAL received.
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The two new machines destined for Tunisia are a Pattern Plate and a
Desmear/PTH/Panel line. They will join the three PAL lines installed at
Fuba Tunisia some eight years ago. The new lines will be installed in
their factory just outside Tunis in March 2002. "We are very pleased that
negotiations could be finalised here at Productronica, and the signing ceremony
take place on our stand," said Geoff Paterson.
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Fuba Printed Circuits Tunisie, a joint venture partner company of VOGT Electronics
Fuba GmbH, is a specialist producer of double sided boards for a wide range
of industries. " We are delighted to be able to place this order with PAL, "
explained Mr Sellami. "We have been talking with PAL and STS about investing in
new equipment for some two years, and the time is now right to place our order."
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"Even in these somewhat depressed times we remain busy and need the machines to
cope with added demand from our clients, who include Bosch, Siemens, Alcatel,
Delco Electronics, Schneider Electric and Magneti Marelli as well as an increasing
group of contract manufacturers who are benefiting from the outsourcing trend in
PCBs procurement.
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"Our continuous investment programme derives from our customers' trust in our
service, and from our strong belief that an important market recovery lies ahead in
the medium term. Incidentally, our ambition is to continue building up one of the
biggest double sided capacity serving the European market, with the objectives of
continuous improvement of our competitiveness along with consolidation of existing
markets in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland as well as penetration of new
market regions.
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"We selected PAL lines because of their excellent technical support in the design
phase, and their ability to fulfil our requests and satisfy our needs.
Our existing PAL machines have produced work of a superb quality and we
look forward to equally good results from the new machines." The order was
placed via STS Industrie PAL's European representative company.
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The news from Fuba is not the only good news received in the first 48 hours
of Productronica by PAL: On the opening day (6 November) an order for an
electrolytic Nickel:Gold line was received from Hitachi, Singapore. "In
addition to receiving this good news from Head Office, and finalising the
Fuba deal, the week is proving to be a good one for us," says Geoff Paterson.
"We have seen a great many existing and potential customers from a very wide
spread of countries, and have had some excellent meetings that we are confident
will lead to more orders being placed in the not too distant future."
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PAL machines are successfully installed in 35 countries around the globe.
Exhibits on the PAL stand included a working display unit showing their
insoluble Anode Plating System, the latest Hoist Control Concept, water
and waste treatment - including the RenoCell, the PAL CRS - Copper Replenishment
System - in Vertical Hoist-type machine application, a model of the latest version
of the PALTECH Horizontal Copper Plating machine, and OSSTjwin software.
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Information is also available
from PAL UK at The Farriers, Annscroft,
Shrewsbury, SY5 8AN, UK. Tel: +44 1743 Fax: +44 (0)1743 860022; Email:
paluk@aol.com.
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08 November 2001
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