General Hybrid moves across Banbury

Citation

(2001), "General Hybrid moves across Banbury", Microelectronics International, Vol. 18 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2001.21818bab.020

General Hybrid moves across Banbury

General Hybrid moves across Banbury

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Electronics packaging specialist General Hybrid UK has moved to a modern 10,000sq. ft building on the nearby Acre industrial estate in Banbury. Formed as Menvier Hybrids just over 20 years ago, the company changed its name to General Hybrid UK Ltd following the management buy-out from Cooper-Menvier in 1999.

The move has enabled the company to expand its facilities, with better than Class 1000 clean rooms and extensive production areas. New equipment installed includes an additional high-capacity, seven zone firing, large-area furnace, screen printers and vapour cleaning machines.

Managing Director Roy Winter said: "Moving from a cramped environment to premises twice the size has allowed us to configure the various functions – sales, administration, accounts, engineering, design, production, test, stores and despatch – in the most efficient way. It also gives us ample room to expand production to cope with our growing sales."

The management buy-out was coupled with membership of the European HiDensity Group which gives the company access to a much wider range of electronics packaging technologies. In addition to thick-film hybrid circuits and surface-mount assemblies, customers are offered chip and wire bond hybrids, multi-chip modules, chip on board units, power circuits, flexible circuits and ASIC and custom IC design and manufacture, together with low-cost, high-volume manufacture in jointly-owned modern plants in Bulgaria.