Industry:
North American Consumer - Industrial Manufacturer
Application:
Manufacturer of hot beverage dispensing equipment
Opportunity:
Our customer had designed a Flex Circuit solution that would meet their demanding environmental requirement and need.
The successful flex solution called for a high temp film that was not widely used in Industry. The identified high temp film was a “must use”; due to its excellent dielectric, low moisture absorption, high temperature resistance and food grade properties. This material required a very high temperature lamination process and would require significant process development effort. The customer was having great difficulty in finding a FLEX supplier that could successfully laminate the material on their design. This required a high temp press / time monitored process to properly seal the circuit without published knowledge of how to best accomplish this.
Solution:
FCT resolved the Flex Solution challenge by initially researching the properties of the particular high temp film that was to be utilized. FCT then located a high temp press and subsequently developed and tweaked the process to successfully laminate the material with polyimide flex base. FCT was the first supplier to successfully laminate this material in production quantities while meeting the end customers quality and cost objectives.
Result:
FCT was able to develop a successful solution to this challenging application where others could not. By meeting our customer’s demanding needs; we were able to gain the customers trust that has led to a very successful long term relationship. Today, our relationship continues to grow as FCT has met additional customer demands for new flexible circuits using this material. We are currently working with our customer on a new project that will continue to grow our market share with this customer going forward.
