Electronic and Circuit Board Plating

Specific case studies applications are Electronic and Circuit Board Plating 

Nickel Sulfamate. Vltramon, a Thomas and Betts subsidiary, installed a 1 gpm ARO system to recover rinses and recycle nickel bath used to plate electronic capacitors. Previously, Vitramon had used an ion exchange system to remove the nickel. Ion exchange regenerant was shipped to a reclaimer. Water was reused. Ion exchange cost of operation was 4,000 per month. The ARO system maintains the rinse at less than 40 ppm nickel. Savings from nickel recovery and avoided treatment cost will provide a payback of approximately 10 months. 

Results from electroless copper, tin-lead (solder) fluoborlc and tin-lead (solder) sulfonic applications will be discussed as they bscome available from installations planned for June and July, 1989. 

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