Etek Europe Ltd. - Looking forward to 2009

2009 will be an interesting and exciting year for us at Etek Europe Ltd. Although our customers in the UK & Central & Eastern Europe have experienced a slow down in the last few months, we are still finding opportunities out there.

Ukraine is a new territory that has come on stream in 2008 and shall continue to grow in 2009 to offer lower cost manufacturing on Europe's doorstep.

New technology and complex processes such as .4mm CSP pitch and lower are pushing older equipment to the limit. Our customers are not only require new higher repeatability equipment to cope with these, but the expertise how to set up these new processes. This has led Etek Europe Ltd to form new industry partnerships and significantly enhance our applications support capabilities with the addition of several respected industry experts in process and engineering to cope with the increased demand for outsourced services.

2009 will also see Etek Europe Ltd partner a global equipment manufacturer in certain territories adding, dispensing, reflow & wave solder to our product portfolio.