Solder pastes

How are solder pastes manufactured right from the level of extracting lead and tin ?

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| How are solder pastes manufactured right from the level of extracting lead and tin ? | | | Dunno. Ask these guys Dave F

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| How are solder pastes manufactured right from the level of extracting lead and tin ? | | | The Tin Institute is good but I rarely find that the raw metals industries guys know about pastes.

Making a tin-lead alloy for pastes, as for raw bars, is the same. It is a smelting and refining process governed by the market prices for those metals.

All of the value added and "wizardry" come in the making of the solder powder, designing and making the flux vehicle systems.

Get in contact with the development people at Indium, OMG Americas, Alpha Metals, Qualitek, AIM, Kester, etc, etc. All of these companies make their own metal powders and develope solder pastes for the electronics industry.

Mark Schwarz Manufacturing Manager Newport Technologies Inc.

PS I was formerly w/ OMG (SCM Metal Products), in product and process development.

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