ALPHA® ■
Solder Paste Stencils
A Complete Understanding of the Science of Printing Helps Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
- ALPHA® has an intimate knowledge of the stencil printing process based on its global experience as the leading producer of stencils as well as advanced solder paste products worldwide.
- ALPHA® understands that the stencil is an integral part of any precision printing process. Getting it right the first time helps save time and money.
- ALPHA® global team of 100+ Research & Development personnel, stays on the cutting edge of paste printing and stencil technology development.
- ALPHA’s global technical service and support team helps integrate our products and enhance your yields.
- ALPHA® has over 1,200 satisfied stencil customers worldwide in all electronics industry segments.
Years of Experience Help Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
With over 800 man years of combined experience in the stencil business, we have more time invested in stencil and printing technology than any other stencil producer.
- 250+ man years of CAD experience globally
- 400+ man years of manufacturing experience globally
- 100+ man years of technical service experience globally
- 60+ man years of stencil operations management experience globally
Advanced Stencil Services: It is Easy to Do Business with Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
- Our inside sales staff ensures prompt, efficient start-up and transfer to CAD contact for ongoing orders and data transfer.
- Our ongoing development work in printing and global exposure to the newest packages enables us to recommend stencil design rules to minimize defects and maximize stencil performance.
- Automated application of customer and OEM / Product-specific design rules through our patented DIMENSIONS® system reduces the possibility of CAD errors and improves first time right service.
- Our PCB scaling service can enhance yield and throughput. Scaling of stencil design to corresponding PCB reduces defects and rework, and improves yield, thus enhancing throughput.
- We regularly monitor and control positional accuracy of the stencil that allows us to provide accurate, consistent stencil quality resulting in the highest possible print quality with the fewest possible mis-printing errors.
- Stepped stencils and unique aperture designs allow single stencils designed for broad range of deposit volumes to provide the right paste volume where needed. In cases where a stepped stencil is not practical or does not provide sufficient volume, our engineers can design a tape and reel preform option to efficiently address the volume needed.
- Unique Cookson Electronics aperture designs such as reverse taper, Micro Pocket and Micro Max improve deposit volume.
- We are your stencil and printing knowledge source offering seminars and publications on stencil design and printing technology to help you stay on the cutting edge.
ALPHA® ■
Solder Paste Stencils
Early Engagement in the New Product Introduction Process
Helps Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
- ALPHA® solder paste stencil design expertise and printing knowledge allow us to understand your print and design requirements and engage early with you on new product introduction work.
- ALPHA® stencil design experts can support you and make recommendations that will enable you to design stencils that can help achieve first time right print deposits.
- ALPHA® can turn around an accurate stencil for you “First-Time-Right” in a timely manner utilizing our global locations, stencil manufacturing expertise, and the advanced technology services.
- ALPHA® Global Technical Service and Support Team helps implement our stencils in the field and troubleshoot if necessary, helping you achieve high yield, reduced defect implementations.
ALPHA® CUT Laser Cut Stencils Help Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
- ALPHA® CUT Laser Cut Stencils provide the highly repeatable, accurate printing performance you require for your challenging new product introductions and production requirements. With ALPHA® CUT Laser Cut Stencils you get:
- Best-in-Class positional accuracy proven in process capability studies and machine mapping and a wide range of options, including:
- Stepped area(s) for optimized paste volume deposition
- Variety for surface Laser Cut Stencils finishes
- High quality stainless steel or hard solid nickel material
- Range of material thicknesses
- Framed or frameless format (including TETRA & TETRA-VG)
- Global manufacturing and quality systems to ensure reliability and quality
- Local operations (11 global sites) ensures fast turnaround
- We also offer ALPHA® FORM electrofomed stencils for applications requiring printing performance down to microelectronic levels – even below 0.4 mm pitch.
How we support “First-Time-Right” NPI Stencils
- By engaging early in the design process, we can help reduce the cycle time and produce the stencil right the first time.
- Our design rule recommendations represent our collective knowledge of the printing process and can help get the right paste volume in the desired location.
- Automated application of customer and OEM / Product-specific design rules through our patented DIMENSIONS® system reduces the possibility of CAD errors and improves first time right service.
- Our DIMENSIONS® system allows for pre-programmed automatic application of existing design rules and continuous addition of new design rules. This enables the customer to systematically utilize one set of design rules globally.
- The PCB manufacturing process can result in variability of the pad locations. Our PCB scaling service can optimize the stencil to better correct for board stretch. Scaling of stencil design to corresponding PCB thus reduces defects and rework, and improves first pass yield in the NPI process.
- We regularly monitor and control positional accuracy of the stencil that allows us to provide accurate, consistent stencil quality.
- We regularly monitor and control positional accuracy of the stencil that allows us to provide accurate, consistent stencil quality.
Fast Turnaround of ALPHA® CUT Stencil Orders Help Us Get Your Stencil Right the First Time
ALPHA® Stencils are manufactured at 12 Cookson Electronics sites globally, and are available with delivery options to suite your specific needs, including the use of shipping services to meet your specified delivery dates.
Product and Service Portfolio
ALPHA® Solder Paste Stencil Products
ALPHA FORM Electroform Stencils
- For Board Assembly.
The industy’s WINNING combination of High Transfer
Efficiency and Low Paste deposit variability.
- For Wafer Bumping.
Cost effective way to provide high aperture count
WITH high accuracy and great stencil durability.
ALPHA FORM Electroform Stencils
The preferred cost effective way to provide high accuracy aperture placement combined with good paste transfer efficiency down to 16 mil pitch.)
ALPHA ETCH Chemically Etched Stencils
Chemical Etching remains the ONLY way to produce multi level stencils for printing boards with large and small components.
ALPHA TETRA Frame System
The FIRST and the BEST high tension, high-accuracy frameless stencil system. |
ALPHA® Stencil Services & Solutions
ALPHA DIMENSIONS Stencil Engineering
The FIRST and the BEST high tension, high-accuracy frameless stencil system.
Cookson Stencil Design Rules
Provide scientifically sized and shaped apertures to handle
any printing situation regardless of complexity.
PCB Scaling
When the PROBLEM is the accuracy of the PWB, the SOLUTION is to scale the stencil to match the board.
Global Commonality Program
Whether it is made in the Americas, Europe or Asia, Cookson’s worldwide stencil fabrication sites manufacture the same high quality product every time everywhere.
Area Ratio Rules
Provide stencil users a flag to potential aperture design violations prior to actual fabrication.
Steps & Stepless Steps
An in-depth understanding of the plating process coupled with precise control of the electroform plating bath allows skilled technicians to vary stencil thickness with aperture size to provide the most robust printing situation possible.
Unique Aperture Designs Including Reverse Taper
Years of studying the underlying science of stencil printing has allowed Cookson to design a family of “High Transfer” apertures, which allow the user to maximize paste deposition in the most marginal printing situations.
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Global Stencil Manufacturing Locations
Americas:
Boynton Beach, FL
Phone: +1-561-742-4045
florders@alphastencils.com
Buffalo Grove, IL
Phone: +1-847-520-5542
iorders@alphastencils.com
Johnson City, NY
Phone: +1-607-729-4031
orders@alphastencils.com
San Jose, CA
Phone: +1-408-544-1840
corders@alphastencils.com
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Phone: +55-11-4353-2577
vendas@alphastencils.com
Monterrey, Mexico
Phone: +52-81-1156-6624
mxorders@alphastencils.com
Europe:
Cholet, France
Phone: +33-241-49-00-11
stencil.southeurope@ cooksonelectronics.com
East Kilbride, Scotland
Phone: +44 (0) 1355-276-500
alphasigma@cooksonelectronics.com
Hatar, Hungary
Phone: +36-24-460-720
stencils.hungary@cooksonelectronics.com
Turnhout, Belgium
Phone: +32-14-44-5003
beneluxstencils@cooksonelectronics.com
Woking, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1355-276-500
alphasigma@cooksonelectronics.com
Asia-Pacific:
Singapore
Phone: +65-6860-0202
sgalphastencils@cooksonelectronics.com
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