New Brunswick Industries Inc

NBI is developing a lead-free soldering process that conforms to IPC-A-610 Revision D. In March of this year, NBI began a feasibility study for developing a lead-free soldering process for manufacturing circuit boards. NBI began by reviewing the available research material, going to trade shows, talking with other contract manufacturers, and by polling customers to judge their level of interest. Although none of NBI's customers expressed a strong interest in going "lead-free" at that time, NBI continued research and began an experimentation project. By the middle of May, NBI engineers were ready to begin hands-on experiments to find out if the published problems with running a lead-free process would apply to NBI as well. A set of relatively simple lead-free boards was procured. ( www.nbiinc.com )