Stan Renals, CEO, Cobar Europe & Cobar Solder Products

In 2022, the 25th anniversary year of the founding of Accu-Assembly, we expect the challenges we faced in 2021 to continue into at least the first two quarters of 2022. We have experienced the component shortages and the long lead times for delivery that have caused delays in shipping our products to customers.

Travel to customer sites has been limited due to Covid-19 restrictions. Despite the travel restrictions brought on by Covid-19, we have been fortunate to be able to maintain a high level of support to our customers, with their much appreciated cooperation, and the use of remote technology tools.

Accu-Assembly launched a new product in 2021: the AccuID, which is a fast, efficient SMT component reel barcode decoding system especially useful for Traceability functions. Seeing a need for more efficient and cost-effective material handling solutions in our industry, we will be introducing, in 2022, new products that will address these issues.

We believe that these material handling automation products will be useful in helping to resolve the current situation of labor shortages that we experience industry wide. We are optimistic about 2022 and do expect it to be a year of improvement.