MicroStencil wins interest from chip firms

According to what Robert Kay, chief technical officer at the firm, told Electronicsweekly, one customer has already set up a volume line and others are in a pre-production assessment phase. "The interest is coming from the largest worldwide chip producers. Each stencil design is specific but electroforming stencil printing is still cheaper than electroplating," said Kay. "In a way we are lucky in this area because of the semiconductor firms that shut down so if we go to shift production work the production people are here," continued Kay.