Carsten Salewski, President/CEO, Viscom Inc. (Americas)

2017 was another great year at BTU, revenue grew and we were solidly profitable throughout the year. We welcomed 80 new customers to the BTU product line in 2017. Our profitability supported our ability to further invest and improve our solutions as we continue to be strongly supported by our parent company, Amtech Systems.

In 2018, we will continue our focus on Cost of Ownership for our Pyramax reflow ovens, specifically maximizing product yield and productivity. Our new configurations, the Pyramax TrueFlat and the Pyramax Vacuum, offer solutions for substrate warpage and void reduction to minimize yield loss.

We are further enhancing productivity with our software solutions around Industry 4.0 including our new Profile Guardian redundant monitoring system.

2018 has the looks of another exciting year, the market continues to show signs of growth and expansion, and the pipeline of development and technology projects at BTU is brimming with potential. In the first half of 2018, we will be bringing to market something truly different for flux management. This new solution offers a mix of out-of-the-box thinking and scientific simplicity.

We envision that this solution will really change the user experience and further enhance the Cost of Ownership of our reflow ovens.