Steven Zweig, Vice President, Glenbrook Technologies Inc.

Essemtec AG is a Swiss company developing and manufacturing first-class equipment for the SMT High mix-low volume market segment. Anticipating the business drivers of this market segment, Essemtec AG is very unique in providing leading edge technologies such as linear motors and mineral casting at market price to serve SME and multi-national customers with state-of-art equipment and performance.

Essemtec AG is unique in having renewed entirely its product portfolio the last 18 months, not just relying to incremental facelift of existing products but making radical design improvements backed by comprehensive beta testing at customer site. To be noted such beta customers have all purchased the equipment.

Clearly the SMT market is trending fast to semiconductor industry requirement in addition to its own business drivers. Catalog products can't be sufficient unless a comprehensive production environment understanding such as integration (industry 4.0) and SPC. Essemtec products anticipate these requirements.