Kester is a global supplier of Solder Information and interconnecting materials to the electronics manufacturing industry. Kester's products and services are used in a wide range of industries such as telecommunications, computer, automotive, military, components manufacturing, and consumer electronics.
Throughout the world, Kester products are known for their high quality and advanced technology. Kester's multiple plants assure quick delivery and protection against regional shipping delays and natural disasters.
Kester's manufacturing capabilities can be summarized as the Core Product Group, Lead-Free Solutions™, Advanced Product Group, and the Value-Added Services Group.
Core Products
The Core Product Group includes materials used in traditional electronic assembly such as:
- Solder paste
- Bar solder and anodes
- Liquid fluxes
- Solid and flux cored wire solder
- Solder preforms
Lead-Free SolutionsTM
Kester offers a variety of lead-free solutions for your assembly needs.
- EnviroMarkTM line of lead-free solder paste
- VOC-Free no-clean and water-soluble fluxes
- Lead-free solder wire and no-clean
water-soluble flux types
- Lead-free seminars
- Solder Bar, spheres, and preforms and various
lead-free alloys
- Unique product packaging for dual leaded and unleaded assembly
- Kester University training, consulting, and
test services
Advanced Products
The Advanced Product Group are comprised of innovative materials and services designed for microelectronic (component) assembly applications.
- Tacky soldering fluxes for FC, CSP, and BGA packaging
- Wafer/substrate bumping solder pastes (low alpha available)
- Solder spheres for CSPs and BGAs
- Reflow encapsulants for FC and CSP attach and encapsulation
- Thermal interface materials (TIM) for next generation heat transfer solutions
