Environmental Issues in Electronic Components & Products [ Return towards Electronic Components & Products ]
You want to optimize and ensure a reliable production. Environment's respect is your concern while at the same time optimizing and ensuring a reliable production.
Air Liquide supports you in this field.
G. Rosengreen
Air Liquide applies lead free technologies for a better environment. As an example, the lead-free wave soldering with Nitrogen allows you to:
- reduce the quantity of dross by 50-99%.
- reduce flux consumption from 50-70%.
- reduce defects, such as shorts, icicles, bridges, no wetting, etc.
- reduce PCB contamination.
- lower the bath temperature.
- reduce wetting time.
- increase useful operating time of the machine by reducing cleaning stops.
Lead-free reflow soldering increases the flexibility of your processes with nitrogen. The use of lead-free alloys causes a reduction in the window for the reflow soldering process: reducing soldering ability, narrowed thermal profile, risks of PCB contamination after soldering, etc. In this case nitrogen allows you to:
- widen the process window.
- use less active "no clean" pastes.
- improve reproducibility.
- reduce the reflow temperature.
- improve wetting.
- improve the mechanical strength of solder joints.
- reduce voids.
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