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 [...]

Prototype Electronics Ltd (PEL), 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. The contract manufacturer, based in the village of Piddlehinton in Dorset, [...]

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 [...]

Sweden-based industrial communication pioneer HMS Industrial Networks continues to set the pace in the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 with a new iineo+ flexible pick and place platform, building on previous successful investments in Europlacer equipment. Extending support for advanced electronics assembly at HMS Industrial Networks in Sweden, Europlacer has supplied a new [...]

The Blakell Europlacer Group has launched three new websites to promote its focus on the provision of full SMT assembly line solutions for key markets across Germany, France and the UK. The new websites feature comprehensive portfolios of products from carefully selected business partners that augment the company’s own screen printers from Speedprint, [...]

Once again, Blakell Europlacer Distribution hosted its annual Technology Open Day for customers and prospects of its full SMT line solutions. The event has run for a number of years but 2019 saw a record uptake attracted by the comprehensive range of equipment on display, the CFX and Industry 4.0 presentation by Aegis’s [...]

Transportation Systems Innovator in Poland Receives Landmark 500th iineo Machine. R&G of Mielec in Poland placed an order with Europlacer through local distributor PAKT Electronics for a second iineo+ pick & place machine, hot on the heels of an iineo+ delivered and installed just a few months earlier. Little did the anyone know [...]