News date: 03/10/2007
THE NEW MECO CONTINUOUS LINE
CONNECTORS CONTROLLED AND GUARANTEED THICKNESSES OF GOLD

THANKS TO THE NEW MECO CONTINUOUS LINE
FOR COMPEL CONNECTORS
CONTROLLED AND GUARANTEED THICKNESSES OF GOLD, EXCLUSIVELY WHERE NEEDED

Cornate d’Adda, september 2007
Compel Electronics Spa, www.compel.it,
a leading international company in the design and manufacture of
interconnection systems and cable assemblies, avails itself of the company LA
DOR, which belongs to the Compel Group and is totally controlled by the
same Compel, for the surface plating of all their own connectors.

LA DOR started operating in this specific and
important sector during the 70s at the same time as Compel started
manufacturing connectors and has continued to develop and introduce innovations
over the years, thanks to the constant research work carried out by its
in-house Technological Laboratory, together with Compel’s Research and
Development department, with the aim of obtaining ever more efficient and
low-cost interconnection surfaces.

In this context, for the manufacturing of contacts for
metric connectors and, in general, for all multipin connectors, the new MECO
Continuous Line has been introduced,  a ‘Reel to Reel Plating’
system for the continuous plating of contacts on a bandolier or pre-cut metal
ribbons.

This line works alongside a similar already existing
one, but with lower production capacity, and meets the fundamental requirement
to have controlled and guaranteed thicknesses of gold exclusively where needed,
i.e. in the male-female contact zones, and not anywhere else.