Stevenage CIircuits and Tru-Lon Printed Circuits utilize Spiron(TM) AOI Systems from Orbotech

Orbotech S.A., the European subsidiary of Orbotech Ltd., today announced the purchase and installation of multiple Spiron-8800 AVIP(TM) Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) systems by STEVENAGE CIRCUITS LTD. and TRU-LON PRINTED CIRCUITS (ROYSTON) LTD. at the manufacturers' bare printed circuit board production facilities in the United Kingdom.

Commenting on the announcement, Mr. John Brown, Owner of Stevenage Circuits Ltd. and Tru-lon Printed Circuits (Royston) Ltd., said: "The Spiron system, with its inspection and verification in parallel, is providing excellent results in production. It is helping us to meet our increasing demand for complex multi-layer, flex-rigid PCBs and RF circuitry with the highest quality and efficiency." Mr. Robert Brown, General Manager at Tru-lon, added: "In addition to being a very technically capable machine, the 'AVIP' technology enables the user to fine-tune recognition parameters to minimize the number of false reports, thus permitting expedient review of actual faults highlighted by the AOI system and saving valuable technician time during verification." Mr. Jacob Azran, President of Orbotech S.A., said: "Stevenage and Tru-lon are companies that have the foresight and commitment to continually invest in the latest technology for the manufacture of high-tech PCBs. We are very pleased that they are achieving valuable benefits from our Spiron-AVIP technology. This solution provides a highly-effective approach for achieving increases in end-to-end throughput and cost savings." Stevenage Circuits Ltd. is a privately owned company that has been producing PCBs for over 30 years. The Company manufactures a wide range of PCBs including multilayer, flexible, flexi-rigid and HDI in a variety of materials. It offers prototype and production quantities on fast and standard turn-around times. Investment in the future is a high priority for the Company and its customers and hence they use technologically advanced manufacturing systems. Although driven primarily by its customers' immediate design requirements, the Company believes it is important to offer more advanced manufacturing solutions by investing an increasing amount of resource into alternative materials technology. For more information, please visit, www.stevenagecircuits.co.uk

Tru-lon Printed Circuits (Royston) Ltd. specializes in prototype and pre-production runs using a wide variety of substrates and is one of the UK's leading companies in this field. It's breadth of engineering knowledge and specialist equipment allows it to manufacture a full range of products from common technologies such as multilayer PCB's, flexible circuits and metal-backed circuits for heat dissipation to non-standard and mixed material builds. The company focuses on providing a quality product, first-class technical support and a commitment to customers of a service that is second to non. For more information, please visit www.tru-lon.co.uk.