Palomar Supplies Fabrinet

VISTA, Calif. -- Palomar Technologies, leader in equipment design and process development for precision microelectronic assembly, announced an agreement to supply Fabrinet with optoelectronic and complex packaging assembly equipment to expand Fabrinet’s capabilities in volume assembly of terminal-active optoelectronic components and precision microelectronic packaging. Fabrinet is an engineering and electromechanical manufacturing services company specializing in the manufacture of complex assemblies

Fabrinet will add a Palomar LDA Laser Diode Attach Component Assembly Cell and a Model 8000 high speed thermosonic ball and stitch wire bonder to its new manufacturing facilities in Bangkok, Thailand. The LDA will increase the quality, throughput, and yield of optoelectronic components manufactured by Fabrinet. Fabrinet will use the 8000 for wire bonding microelectronic packages, including most semiconductor-based interconnect applications such as hybrids and gold ball bumping.

In addition, through its Process Development and Prototyping Services, Palomar will qualify and develop processes on existing and emerging packaging technologies, ultimately transferring the processes to Fabrinet for production engineering, volume manufacturing, and supply chain management in Thailand.

“Fabrinet is one of a very few EMS companies anywhere in the world capable of the precision manufacture in high volume of complex components such as those in the optics, optomechanical, and optoelectronic industries,” said Bruce W. Hueners, Palomar’s VP of marketing and business development. “Their location in Thailand is an added bonus because of the skilled labor force, stable government, and low cost of doing business there.”

“Our engineers have spent several weeks at Palomar becoming familiar with Palomar’s process development and equipment,” said Dr. Teera Achariyapaopan, Fabrinet’s executive VP & chief operating officer. “Adding the Laser Diode Attach assembly cell and 8000 wire bonder to our lines automates our process and allows us to offer our customers even more precision packaging options while reducing time-to-market, throughput, yield, and costs.”

Palomar Technologies Inc.

Fabrinet Co. Ltd.