Balver Zinn Group Appoints Hattas & Associates as Representative for Central North American Territories

Balver Zinn Group has announced the appointment of Hattas & Associates as manufactures representative for the leading Balver Zinn and Cobar brands for the North American territories of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa Cedar Rapids and East.

The company will now take responsibility for sales of the full line of solder paste, solder wires, solder bars, flux products, as well as their complete line of cleaning products.

Hattas & Associates is a full service technical manufactures representative with headquarters in Chicago land. The Balver Zinn Group Managing Director, Josef Jost explains: �Hattas & Associates specializes in representing high quality equipment, materials and supplies and will therefore bring the highest level of support to our existing and future customers in this territory. Our partnership will enable the performance and process benefits of our products to reach a wider number of manufacturers in North America.�

The latest product in the Balver Zinn Group portfolio is the XF3 solder paste, developed to accommodate extended reflow profiles, with or without the use of nitrogen. XF3 demonstrates superior wetting performance on all common metal surfaces and exhibits a robust printing window for printing at 10 � 200 mm per second. XF3 is classified as an IPC-J-STD 004 REL0 solder paste; with safe residues that keeps the reflow oven clean. Further products are being launched throughout 2009.