Rob Carney has joined Europlacer as our new Marketing Executive Rob Carney has joined Europlacer as our new Marketing Executive with responsibilities for conventional and digital marketing support for the group worldwide. Rob lives near our global headquarters in the UK and so is based in the facility at Poole in [...]

Europlacer Appoints François Erceau to Drive Strategic Global Marketing Europlacer has appointed a veteran of the electronics industry to head up the company’s marketing, business development and communications strategy worldwide. Bringing substantial expertise from leadership roles in major corporations and mid-sized companies, François Erceau joined the Europlacer Executive Management Team in [...]

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the sales & marketing team at Europlacer have set up comprehensive ‘virtual’ demonstration facilities manned by real staff for the many businesses looking to evaluate the company’s range of surface mount assembly equipment. Staff at the pick & place specialist know that an excellent demonstration is of paramount [...]

Industry analyst Frost & Sullivan (F&S) has confirmed that Europlacer takes the accolade of Global Company of the Year in the SMT pick & place sector for 2020. This marks Europlacer’s sixth Frost & Sullivan award. F&S commended Europlacer for its stable market position through industry-leading technology, a global footprint and “unmatched customer service [...]

Le Mercredi 8 Juillet 2020 marque une étape importante pour Europlacer. Cela fait 50 ans jour pour jour que la société fondatrice, Blakell Systems Ltd, a été constituée et enregistrée en Grande-Bretagne par son dirigeant Pat Kellard. Un demi-siècle d’existence en ayant surmonté toutes les crises, toutes les mutations technologiques et vagues de délocalisation. [...]

A new Europlacer customer located less than 20 miles from our UK headquarters has deployed its new iineo+ pick & place machine to build parts for medical equipment used on the front line in the fight against coronavirus. Contract manufacturer Prototype Electronics Ltd (PEL), based in the village of Piddlehinton in Dorset, took delivery [...]

Robert Conway, Chairman of Parable Trust & Blakell Europlacer Group, Dr Kamau Gachigi, Executive Director of Gearbox, Kenya and Neil Sandy, CEO of Wellers Impact & Weller Law Group are delighted to announce a collaboration resulting in essential medical manufacturing technology being sent to Nairobi, Kenya to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]

Like everyone else in the SMT industry, we are tightening our belts to cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite that, Europlacer is still looking to the future. We’re continuing to make prudent investments to help safeguard our future and to enhance our successful growth plan. Over [...]

Flexibility and compact footprints suit production needs and factory floorspace. Europlacer has installed a second high-speed line comprising iineo+ and xpii+ pick & place machines with a Heller reflow oven at SafeLine in Tyresö, Sweden. It crowns a package of upgrades to increase capacity and throughput to meet rising demand for the company’s elevator safety [...]

While Europlacer will be using Productronica to highlight is expanding SMT Line Solutions offering that includes premium equipment from selected business partners, the company’s multi-award-winning atom3 machine will take centre stage on the Productronica booth. The atom3 is the ultra-flexible atom model that, along with its high-speed atom4 sibling, is opening up new global assembly [...]