Taiyo America Announces Partnership Alliance

CiruiTree (March 31, 2003) Long Beach, CA--Taiyo America announced a partnership alliance with Schedectady International to develop, manufacture, and sell waterborne photoimagable etch resists and soldermasks in North America.

Taiyo also announced a partnership with Circuit Automation in developing Wet Film Technology, a new way of applying soldermask. Circuit Automation has been working with Taiyo for over a year on equipment development. Alpha testing on the product (PFR-800 AU S402 lamination)was done internally and Beta site testing is starting now. Roll-out time "in the best case looks like the end of June."