Boston Semi Equipment Announces Record Orders
March 16, 2023 | BSEEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Boston Semi Equipment (BSE), a global leader in advanced automation solutions to the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, announced its test handler backlog has reached a historical level and continues to grow.
BSE’s test handler solutions include proven gravity and pick and place technologies. Its Zeus gravity line provides a flexible core platform upon which customers can build specific performance capabilities from ambient to tri-temp. Panacea is a pick and place test handler that breaks barriers and helps customers overcome the next challenges in high-volume test environments with its novel chamberless design and parallelism up to 32 sites.
“Much of the growth that we see is driven by markets including automotive, electrification, medical and industrial,” said Colin P. Scholefield, BSE’s CEO. “BSE is uniquely positioned with our state-of-the-art gravity and pick and place solutions to serve these growing segments. This is evidenced in several repeat customer orders as well as new Panacea wins. Our success is a result of excellent customer partnerships, decades of applications engineering and proven reliability and performance.”
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