What are Sono Tek's Business Segments?
SonoFlux 2000F – spray fluxer product – designed for high volume
operations with standard width lines requiring low maintenance using a variety
of solder fluxes, including rosin flux. It is designed to be used by electronic
circuit board manufacturers to apply solder flux to fixed width circuit boards.
The primary customers for the SonoFlux 2000F are original equipment manufacturers
that produce their own electronic circuit boards.
SonoFlux EZ- spray fluxer product - applies solder flux to electronic printed
circuit boards that vary from two inches to up to 18 inches in width in a cost-effective
and uniform manner. They are designed to be used by either OEMs or contract
manufacturers of electronic circuit assemblies. This is an economically priced
system which sells effectively in the price competitive Asian market.
SonoFlux Servo – a newer spray fluxer capable of providing flux to both
wide areas of a circuit board as well as selective fluxing. We also sell a selective
fluxing apparatus known as Selectaflux.
MediCoat and MediCoat II for stent coating – table-top and stand alone,
fully-contained systems designed to apply thin layers of polymer and drug coatings
to arterial stents with high precision. The system incorporates motion control
of the stent during the coating process and produces coatings having excellent
uniformity. The MediCoat systems use either the AccuMist or MicroMist nozzle
systems, which are precision nozzle configurations used in applications where
precise patterns and coatings are required. These products minimize waste of
expensive drug polymer coatings and provide high uniformity of drug addition
from stent to stent. MediCoat II is similar to the MediCoat, but it has higher
throughput capabilities more suited for a production environment. We have recently
developed additional medical coating platforms to address developing market
segments for drug coated balloons, catheters and other implantable devices.
WideTrack – Wide area modular coating system – designed to be used
in applications that require efficient web-coating or wide area spraying capability.
One module can cover substrates from six inches to 24 inches wide, depending
on the application. Much greater widths can be achieved by linking modules together,
and these systems have been applied in glass lines of up to four meters wide.
A large number of systems have been sold over the past six years, and this application
holds promise for the future due to cost and environmental savings demonstrated
at customer sites. It uses non-clogging ultrasonic atomizing nozzles to produce
a low velocity, highly controllable spray. The WideTrack System offers significant
advantages over conventional pressure-spray methods in a broad range of applications
such as non-woven fabrics, float glass, or odd-shaped industrial or consumer
products. Since the ultrasonic spray can be easily controlled, it is possible
to use fewer chemicals and less water and energy in applying coatings to glass,
textiles, food products and packaging materials than with traditional nozzles.
This also results in reduced environmental impact due to less overspray.
Exactacoat/Flexicoat – We offer a line of robotic XYZ coating equipment
for applications involving 3D coatings for fuel cell membranes, solar energy
panels and specialty lens products. This equipment is offered in bench-top configurations
as our ExactaCoat product and standalone as our FlexiCoat product. These platforms
position and move our nozzle systems in a precise three dimensional application
pattern. These coaters are extremely efficient especially when combined with
our novel ultrasonic syringe pump (patent pending) to agitate and suspend the
carbon based suspensions needed in fuel cell applications.
We have an exclusive distribution relationship with EVS to distribute EVS’s
line of solder recovery systems and spare parts in the United States and Canada.
EVS manufactures the EVS6000, EVS3000 and the EVS1000 solder recovery systems
which are used to reclaim solder from the dross which accumulates in the wave-solder
equipment of circuit board manufacturers. The customer base for distribution
of these systems is synergistic with our existing customer base for spray fluxer
sales in the printed circuit board industry.
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