Blakell Europlacer Distribution

With the benefit of over 40 years of experience manufacturing and supplying equipment to the Electronics industry, Blakell Europlacer has grown from a supplier of light-guided equipment for hand placement of through-hole devices to a manufacturer of Europlacer Pick and Place systems and Speedprint Stencil printers for distribution throughout the wo... rld. This activity has been enhanced within the UK by expansion into distribution of a select range of 3rd Party products which complement the Group's own manufactured equipment. Based in Rocheserviere, Western France, Europlacer is the manufacturer of fully intelligent SMT placement systems and invented the 'intelligent feeder' which was launched into the SMT market in 1991. This intelligence forms the backbone of the 'integrated intelligence' approach underpinning the range of machines. Protection of investment is key when making a decision on the purchase of capital equipment - Europlacer machines are designed to be capable of placing the whole range of devices in one single platform. This means that when a line has been configured, it may be broken down and reconfigured, without concern that the system may be unbalanced or incapabale and therefore limited in its ability. Software and feeders are intentionally kept compatible with earlier systems where possible, so again the investment in technology and training is not wasted when a new Europlacer machine is added to the customer's factory. Speedprint joined the Blakell Europlacer Group in 1997. Previously a manufacturer of semi-automatic stencil printers on an OEM basis (the semi automatic UP100 and UP200 machines were manufactured in Poole for MPM) Speedprint also previously manufactured semi automatic printers for SMTech. 2001 saw the introduction of a completely new approach to inline Stencil Printers, with a new system of 'look down / look down' camera technology, allowing for ease of setup and changeover, and to utilise either apertures or fiducials on the stencil. Having full in-house design has allowed ...Read More