One of ACE's greatest differentiators is that from our inception we've been a leader in selective soldering technology. Among our recent innovations is the development of a nitrogen hot air knife for fine pitch through-hole soldering, selective soldering of large backplanes up to 28" x 36", an embedded temperature data logger for greater thermal control of the selective soldering process, and a maintainable drop-jet flux dispenser that can process water-soluble, rosin-based and high solids content flux chemistries.
As part of our commitment to customer service, we have expanded into the Asian market during this past year to enhance our ongoing relationship with our worldwide customers. Throughout the upcoming year we will maintain our strong investment in R&D so we can continue our reputation of delivering award winning technology, and our highly successful series of selective soldering workshops, to help solve our customer's most challenging selective soldering processing needs.
Our outlook for 2014 is optimistic since the market response to our product offerings has been overwhelming with a big uptick in machine orders at the end of 2013. We anticipate this positive sales trend to continue in 2014 as the demand for selective soldering technology remains strong for the foreseeable future.