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Thursday 13 November 2025
Boschman - providing packaging solutions for auto & industrial power modules
Founded in 1987, Boschman Technologies B.V. is a manufacturer of sintering equipment and transfer molding technology for advanced packaging of automotive and industrial power modules, MEMS sensors. In addition to its headquarters in the Netherlands, the company has operations in Singapore and China Suzhou. The key technologies of Boschman are silver sintering and Film Assisted Molding (FAM). Boschman uses a pressurized silver sintering process in module packaging to address the stringent challenges and difficulties of power module interconnect technology.The power module market is experiencing substantial growth in Europe and China, driven by the accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), expansion of renewable energy systems, and increased demand for energy-efficient industrial and consumer electronics. The power modules require sophisticated packaging for high-temperature, high-power, and high-reliability connections. The FAM technologies for protection against harsh environments like high humidity and vibration, as well as to manage thermal and electrical stress. On the other hand, silver sintering offers superior thermal and electrical conductivity compared to traditional soldering process, while FAM with its vacuum-assisted films prevents voids during molding, leading to more reliable and high-performing power modules with better thermal management.Boschman began its journey by developing and manufacturing module packaging molds, then expanded into the research and development of silver sintering packaging equipment. And the company continues to invest in and develop advanced packaging technologies. Boschman specializes in serving the global electronics assembly and semiconductor back-end packaging industries, providing advanced sintering equipment using advanced high-pressure sintering technology. Specifically tailored to the needs of customers of varying sizes and production scales, Boschman's sintering equipment offers a variety of solutions suitable for R&D doing small batches, small- to medium-volume pilot production, and large volume manufacturing environments.Boschman has many years of experience in cooperation with Taiwanese industries, especially in power electronics and components manufacturing service vendors that provide power management, power electronics, and thermal solutions. Among the new business opportunities, OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) companies serve a broad range of semiconductor clients, is one of the key types of customers in Taiwan for Boschman. OSAT customers are providing back-end packaging services such as Tire Pressure Monitor Sensors (TPMS) and other automotive sensors for customers, which has enabled Boschman to gain the benefits.Talking about the business model, Boschman provides customers with packaging design and development, as well as silver sintering process equipment to meet the needs of the automotive supply chains and power system industries. It also provides design proofing and small-batch assembly production services to customers. One more thing, Boschman and Powertrim Technologies, another Dutch company exhibiting at the Netherlands Pavilion, have a collaborative upstream and downstream relationship. These two companies collaborate in the manufacturing of automotive and power module systems in Europe, jointly serving leading Auto and industrial customers.
Thursday 13 November 2025
Fonontech - Discover the impact of Impulse Printing for fast 3D interconnects
Fonontech B.V. is a device solution provider and startup company based on Impulse Printing technology. Impulse printing technology can be described as a novel additive manufacturing technology that allows for parallel transfers high-resolution conductive patterns to enable the rapid and precise printing of micrometer scale interconnections. This technology offers high-speed low-cost manufacturing, is well suited for process equipment to create complex 3D structures and achieve further miniaturization of electronic devices. The rapidly growing opportunities in AI-driven electronics push the technology forward. These unique solutions have considerable potential, and on May 16, 2025, Fonontech received the good news of a $9.5 million seed round investment.Currently, Fonontech equipment is being used to address wire bonding speed issues in chip packaging. Wire bonding is a viable solution for connecting chips to external pins or for silicon interlayer structures in advanced packaging. This process is typically used in back-end chip manufacturing, particularly flip-chip bonding. Fonontech equipment offers higher pin density, optimized electrical performance, and smaller package sizes.While conventional wire bonders can only print one line at a time, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology is much faster. Because its parallel printing solution can transfer contacts covering an entire area at a time, the speed increase is astonishing. According to on-site testing and monitoring, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology can achieve speeds up to 100 times faster than wire bonders.Currently, Fonontech equipment can successfully bonding with a minimum size of 20 micrometers, and in the future it will further achieve a dimensional accuracy down to a few micrometers. In the booth of Fonontech showcased the Impulse Printing demo kit, a scaled down version of the industrial equipment. In addition to selling the equipment itself, the company also integrates Impulse Printing print head modules into customers' production lines for special tailored applications.The equipment can be used for transfer printing onto wafers, PCBs, or other manufacturing processes, such as connecting signal pins on the side of a display chip to the signal contacts on the back side of the display panel. The bestselling point of this equipment is speed and cost effectiveness to reduce material waste and carbon emissions. The company's product is marketed as a replacement for wire bonding machines. Furthermore, the company currently is developing Taiwan market and running ongoing collaborative projects through testing and verification with potential clients.
Thursday 13 November 2025
HITEC Power Protection - a reliable and secure dynamic UPS solution provider
HITEC Power Protection develops, manufactures, and provides dynamic uninterruptible power (UPS) solutions to support the most vital of manufacturing and business critical applications. Founded in 1956, its products are widely used in industries with high power reliability requirements, such as semiconductor fabs, banking, aviation, healthcare, and government defense, to ensure that critical missions and processes receive uninterrupted and stable power supply.HITEC Power Protection provides power protection equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and adjustable power to support the operational needs of businesses and critical government facilities. Taking ESG and sustainability into consideration, HITEC Power Protection provides customers with the reliable and innovative uninterruptible power solutions to meet the demanding and complex operational needs of the high-tech industries by providing immediate, reliable backup power and voltage regulation during outages.The company has accumulated over 60 years of experience in industries requiring high power stability, primarily using flywheel energy storage technology. This technology that stores energy in a mechanical flywheel to ensure rapid immediate emergency response and stable power supply in the event of power anomalies. Normally, Once an emergency power outage is detected, the flywheel energy storage system will be activated to deliver stored energy very quickly instantly, and within 5 seconds starting transfers smoothly to connect to an integrated diesel generator to provide long term emergency power.HITEC Power Protection was introduced to the Taiwanese market in 1985 and has successfully imported installed over 200 units. Its customers primarily include well-known semiconductor manufacturing fabs and the display panel makers. As Taiwan's industrial demand for power stability continues to rise, the business opportunities of HITEC Power Protection continue to grow.The current product line provides a continuous power generation capacity of approximately 2,880 kW at 60 Hz per unit. And the features include power safety and protection functions, such harmonic filtration, surge protection, load stabilization, and short-circuit current protection, which outperform typical static UPS systems. HITEC Power Protection provides 100% emergency power to all manufacturing and supporting equipment, implementing precise UPS capacity design to ensure a stable power supply to customer's power loads. This not only reduces unstable power risks but also overall lowers installation and ongoing maintenance costs.After engaging the market with Taiwanese industrial clients, HITEC Power Protection is now further targeting the needs of reliable backup power systems for major government critical public facilities, such as disaster prevention and instant response systems for critical infrastructure like tunnels and airports, with the ultimate goals of improving public service quality, bolstering private sector disaster preparedness, and significantly enhancing the overall resilience of Taiwanese society.