Extended strategic partnership with Yahama

Assembléon and Yamaha IM extend strategic worldwide partnership in SMT

Veldhoven (The Netherlands), April 4, 2006

Assembléon, a 100% subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics, and Yamaha IM are extending their strategic Pick & Place partnership for another three years. The agreement covers the global SMD placement market, and includes development, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service.
  
The cooperation between Assembléon and Yamaha IM began in 1987, when Assembléon launched the companies’ first mutual product, the CSM46. Since then, the partnership has been regularly extended, with now more than 18 years of close and continuous cooperation.

Together sell most units worldwide

Together, Assembléon and Yamaha have grown to become the Number One supplier of Pick & Place machines worldwide in terms of units. The companies’ combined product portfolios perfectly cover any application for SMT electronics board assembly, from a technology, volume and geographical perspective. The Customer Support capabilities of the two companies are recognized worldwide as the best in the industry.

'Together, our two companies have the economies-of-scale and technical expertise that electronics assembly operations worldwide can rely on,' added Leon Husson, CEO of Assembléon. 'With today’s printed circuit boards characterized by continued miniaturization and a widening component mix, the winners in the market will be the manufacturers who can make their machines future proof, while still delivering a cost-down, quality-up process'.

'Increasingly, both Assembléon and Yamaha are focusing on seamless integration into our customers’ manufacturing environment', said Yoshihisa Iwatsuka, Vice President of Yamaha IM. 'That is true for the processes themselves, for the software, and for the complete supply chain'.