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KCE RETURNS FOR MORE
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There has been a long relationship stretching back many years between the KCE
Group of Thailand and PAL - Process Automation International Ltd.
Six PAL lines have been installed in the
original KCE factory, and four in the second factory - KCE International - in
the 1980s and early 1990s. Therefore, when KCE built a new factory - KCE
Technology - outside Bangkok at the turn of the century it was no surprise that
they should turn to PAL for four plating machines - a Pattern line, Desmear/PTH
line, Electroless Nickel and Gold line and a full depth Tab Plater.
Now they have ordered a second Pattern line
from PAL for this plant.
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"We are delighted to see this upturn in business from Thailand," says Geoff Paterson,
Managing Director of PAL. "Things
certainly seem to be improving globally and we are having a productive time
building machines and working on quotes for new and existing customers."
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"The new line for KCET is a huge machine in an H shape," explains Kelvin Lau of
PAL. "It is separated into two phases
with a long transfer tank forming the link between the two phases and creating
the 'H'. Output capacity is 5,000
panels a day for the first phase and this will double once phase two is
installed. Phase I will be delivered at
the end of June this year, installation will start at the beginning of July and the
machine will be commissioned by the end of August/beginning of September.
KCET would like to have Phase II completed
in February 2003, which means that delivery will be in December 2002."
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Each arm of the new
line is 40m long and 7m wide with 15 copper plating tanks for the first phase
and 13 for the second, and has three sets of transporters for phase one and
four for phase two. With semi-automatic
load and fully automated unload using an IML conveyor system effecting a direct
link to the etching machine, the new line features many of PAL's latest
state-of-the-art technology including their Eductor system, ORS, 'Aero Wing'
shielding system and mixing chamber for Tin plating
salts, and maintenance and make up chemistries.
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31 May 2002
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