News archive

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  30/04/2020

  Welcome to the team

  We are proud to announce our newest team members Barnabás Szalai and Csaba Szabó. See more details
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  28/02/2020

  Nano Dimension the world leading 3D-printing electronics company have teamed up with Amtest Group

  Nano Dimension the world leading 3D-printing electronics company have teamed up with Amtest Group in the countries of Romania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. See more details
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  16/01/2020

  Amtest Group and X-Treme Series sign exclusive distribution agreement

  Amtest Group and X-Treme Series sign exclusive distribution agreement covering Romania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. See more details
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  31/10/2019

  Cyberoptics joins the Amtest family

  Amtest Group and Cyberoptics sign co-operation agreement covering all Amtest territories to promote and support the cutting-edge 3D technologies offered by this American market leader. See more details
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  07/10/2019

  Amtest Group opens new facility in Botvegrad, Bulgaria

  Amtest Group opens new facility in Botvegrad, Bulgaria – showcasing Nordson Asymtek selective coating, Nordson Select selective soldering and collaborative robots from Franka Emika. See more details
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  15/09/2019

  Hanwha opens European demonstration Centre in Frankfurt Germany

  Located very close to Frankfurt Airport and equipped with the newest platform and placement technologies as well as all IT offerings – we believe this facility will bring value to our many clients. See more details
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  09/09/2019

  Amtest presents the Panda by Franka Emika (German Robotics)

  We are proud to announce that we have chosen our collaborative robot partner – Franka Emika / German Robotics – the PANDA. See more details
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  01/07/2019

  Amtest Group and Nordson Asymtek have agreed to expand their long-standing partnership into Bulgaria from July 1st 2019

  Amtest Group and Nordson Asymtek presently work together in Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic – with over 500 working solutions in the field ranging from the global leading SL940 selective coating platform, automatic coating inspection units and the multiple Nordson jet dispensing solutions – all supported by the 18 Amtest process engineers. See more details
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  01/05/2018

  Amtest Group enters Serbian market

  Amtest is pleased to announce that the Group has entered the market of Serbia, along with our selected partners that will include the global leading Nordson group of companies, Nordson Asymtek, Nordson March and Nordson Select. See more details
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  01/04/2018

  Amtest Group further expands our service team – this time in Hungary

  Amtest is pleased to welcome Ferenc Szabo to our service team – working primarily within Hungary. See more details
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  23/02/2018

  Amtest Group and Universal Instruments extend partnership into Bulgaria

  Universal Instruments of Binghamton USA, the world leader in its through-hole lineup, has extended its co-operation with Amtest Group to now cover the territory of Bulgaria. See more details
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  01/02/2018

  Robert Brożyna appointed “CoE Application Manager”

  We are proud to advise that Robert Brożyna has been appointed “CoE Application Manager” at our new Centre of Excellence facility in Wroclaw, Poland. See more details
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  20/11/2017

  ESE Printer Company joins the Amtest Group family

  Productronica trade show so the co-operation agreement between ESE and Amtest. See more details
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  13/11/2017

  Congratulations

  Congratulations to Grzegorz Kopczyński, our team member on completing the Athens Marathon. See more details
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  02/11/2017

  Branislav Ružička joins Group

  With pleasure we announce that Branislav Ružička has become part of the Amtest Group – working with our Sales Operation in the Slovak Republic. See more details
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  09/10/2017

  First Article Inspection system

  Amtest Group and Bluiris signed a distribution agreement with regard to their First Article Inspection system covering Central and Eastern Europe. See more details
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  27/09/2017

  Amtest Group at Productronica, Hall A3 215

  Amtest Group will be in Germany in Hall A3 stand 215 on their own 84 sq M booth.
  
  This year the Group decided due to increased business and more clients travelling from our territories to have OUR OWN EXCLUSIVE STAND. See more details
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  15/09/2017

  Hanwha launch the PLUS series

  Hanwha Techwin (formerly Samsung Techwin) launch the PLUS series in Europe which is a further enhancement to their present SM series oi placement machines. See more details
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  05/06/2017

  Nordson Technology Day

  June 13th – 14th Nordson Asymtek will be hosting their technology days in the Netherlands. See more details
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  07/03/2017

  Amtest Group – VI Technology Open Day Success

  More than 20 customers attended the event at the AMTEST Open Day at the AMTEST HQ , including top EMS and automotive companies, for live demos of the 5K3D and PI machines. See more details
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  16/02/2017

  The Group would like to thank Frigyes Marton for his 10 year service

  Originally joining us as a maintenance engineer working on Samsung machines - he then moved to the field engineer team. See more details
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  04/02/2017

  Gábor Bajusz celebrates 10 years with Amtest Group

  Gabor joins the growing list of personnel who have been with us for over 10-years – helping our Group grow from stength to strength. See more details
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  02/02/2017

  Amtest welcomes Caius Lisca to the Group

  It gives us great pleasure to announce Caius Lisca has joined the Company. See more details
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  01/02/2017

  Amtest welcomes Balázs Szentes to the Team!

  Balázs joins the Group – working out of our Budapest office – from February 1st 2017. See more details
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  17/10/2016

  Amtest Group winner of Nordson Asymtek Recognition Award for 2016.

  It gave us great pleasure to win the 2016 Distributor Recognition award from Nordson Asymtek. See more details
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  09/06/2016

  Positive Feedback from Technology Day Event in Sofia, Bulgaria

  We would like to thank all technology day delegates and our guest speakers who travelled to the EXPO Centre in Sofia for the 1st Amtest Group Technology Day in Bulgaria. See more details
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  09/06/2016

  2ND Centre of Excellence Opened (Krakow Poland)

  Due to the continuing success of the services and skills offered by our Centre of Excellence in Budapest (where the primary focus is on advances in selective coating, dispensing and laser technologies) the Group decided to open our 2nd Centre of Excellence, with a primary focus on placement and soldering. See more details
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  12/05/2016

  Atmospheric plasma solution from Exelsius

  Exelsius, the leading French manufacturer of curing ovens, has launched its new and unique in-line atmospheric plasma system that enables the surface tension of your PCB to be dramatically increased. See more details
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  08/05/2016

  Universal Instruments show their new multi-purpose machine the Uflex

  Universal introduced their new Uflex platform at Nurnberg SMT show – following its launch at APEX.
  See more details
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  11/03/2016

  Join us at the Amper Trade Show, Brno, Czech Republic

  The Amtest Group will be exhibiting at the Amper show in Brno, March 15th to March 18th. See more details
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  15/01/2016

  “Amtest wins Gold Channel Partner Award from HumiSeal”

  It was with great pleasure that our associates in Amtest Group – Romania won the Gold Channel Partner Award from HumiSeal, in recognition of our achievements both sales and process with their conformal coatings material. See more details
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  29/10/2015

  “We mourn the loss of a friend”

  Carlo Ferrero, President of Osai A.S, was not just a visionary but also a man of honour and a friend of all of us within the Amtest Group. He will be deeply missed. See more details
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  20/10/2015

  “Amtest celebrates achievement of 5 IPC trainers within Group”

  It gives us great pleasure to advice that our corporate objective of having 5 IPC A-610 trainers within the Group has been achieved.
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  27/09/2015

  “Group welcomes Rafal Przegaliński to Team”

  Rafal joins Amtest Group, after multiple years successfully working with C.H Ebsloh. See more details
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  20/09/2015

  “Samsung – Hanwha European Distributor Meeting” – Bucharest

  Amtest Group was pleased to host the Samsung – Hanwha distributor meeting in September. See more details
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  17/09/2015

  “Retronix the world leader in safe components agrees strategic alliance with Amtest”

  Retronix offer a unique set of services aimed at reducing manufacturing costs and improving production efficiency in the electronics PCBA industry. See more details
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  03/09/2015

  “Technology Seminar” Czech Republic September 15th and 16th

  Amtest Czech will host a 2-day technology seminar covering newest developments and NPI into mass production. See more details
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  14/05/2015

  “Nordson DIMA becomes part of the Group product portfolio in Bulgaria and Romania”

  Due to our vast experience and knowledge on the dispensing process, Amtest Group and Nordson have agreed that with immediate effect, the Dima dispensing division will become part of the Group’s portfolio in Bulgaria and Romania. See more details
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  12/03/2015

  “Expansion of Amtest Group Process Engineering team in Bulgaria and Romania”

  Amtest Group is proud to welcome an additional three (3) qualified engineers into our Organisation, bringing the Group’s service team to over 15 personnel, the largest in Central – Eastern Europe. See more details
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  27/02/2015

  Amper 2015 – Brno, Czech Republic, March 24th – 27th 2015

  Amtest Group will have a larger more extensive stand at this year’s AMPER show, recognising our continuing growth in market share. See more details
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  26/02/2015

  “Coating seminar” – Lacquers, selection, application, behaviour

  As part of our training and education programmes, Amtest Group will be providing free of charge trainings for clients from Poland on conformal coating lacquers.
  Venue will be the Amtest Centre of Excellence on March 5th-6th. See more details
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  20/10/2014

  Amtest Group is proud to advise, completion of a another successful selective coating project, within our region, at Apri s.r.o.

  In partnership, the Amtest Group and Apri s.r.o chose an inline selective coating solution to enable surpassing of both quality and volume requirements. The line consists of an Asymtek SL-940 with film coater applicator, enabling accurate coating speeds of 750 mm / second along with a IR Convection – Curing oven and board handling that was specifically designed by Amtest Group for conformal coatings, produced by E-Flex. See more details
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  15/06/2014

  The Amtest Group hosted and completed two informative seminars in Slovakia (2-day coating/soldering workshop) and Czech Republic (a 1-day hand soldering seminar and workshop)

  Many thanks to both the attendees, whose openness and questions were extremely valuable, and to our Guest speakers from Asscon, Nordson Asymtek, Kester and Balver Zinn.
  
  Please contact Amtest for information on our next round of seminars. See more details
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  14/02/2014

  Amtest thanks our clients who visited our stand at Productronica

  Amtest was proud to meet and welcome our esteemed clients to the Productronica show, where, we had our 84 sqM stand. See more details
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  09/02/2014

  Amtest adds InterSelect to our list of valuable manufacturing partners

  After equipment audit and subsequent strategy and marketing meetings, Amtest Group is pleased to announce, that it has chosen InterSelect of Germany, as our selective soldering partner. See more details
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  30/01/2014

  Amtest awarded “ISO 9001” certification

  As part of our continuing improvement strategy and goal of providing additional “added values”, Amtest Group successfully passed ISO 9001 / 2008 See more details
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  13/01/2014

  Amtest alliance with ITAC Software

  On January 10th, 2014, Amtest and ITAC signed a partnership agreement to work together in the promotion and implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems within Central and Eastern Europe. See more details
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  24/10/2013

  Amtest awarded “Crystal Award” by Nordson Asymtek

  The Crystal Award for 15-years of Outstanding Technical Support was presented to Amtest, by Michel van der Vijver, General Manager of Asymtek Europe. See more details
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  11/10/2013

  Amtest announce NEW partnership with Universal Instruments

  Amtest is proud to begin our Central and East European alliance with Universal Instruments. See more details
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  10/10/2013

  New Corporate Head Quarters

  Amtest is proud to announce the opening of our new Corporate HQ in Budapest, Hungary. See more details
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  30/07/2013

  Upcoming Seminar Schedule

  Continuing our series of technical seminars, Amtest, will be organising and hosting the following seminars in the following 75-days.
     -  Advanced Selective Coating Seminar in Czech Republic
     -  Advanced Technologies Seminar in Slovak Republic
     -  Latest developments in SMT production in Czech Republic.

  See more details
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  17/06/2013

  Successful Seminar in Bucharest, Romania

  Continuing our series of technical seminars, Amtest, was proud to host and organise SMT seminar in Bucharest, along with our partners at Asscon and TWS. See more details
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  24/04/2013

  Exhibitions, Amper Show Brno, Automaticon Show, Warsaw

  Amtest would like to thank all visitors who visited our stands at both the Amper show and the Automaticon show. See more details
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  24/01/2013

  Amtest participating at SMT info seminar, Brno, February 12th 2013

  Amtest will be participating at the SMT info seminar, in Brno, Czech Republic. Topics include PCB design systems, Complex production lines for assembly & inspection systems. See more details
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  01/01/2013

  Amtest Group celebrates our 40th year of business!

  Year 2013, sees Amtest celebrate its 40th year of business in Central and Eastern Europe and our ongoing “Commitment to Excellence”
  We thank all of our clients for enabling our growth with their trust, and our manufacturing partners for their faith in establishing Amtest as the No. 1 distributor across our Region. See more details
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  10/11/2012

  Amtest Group seminar in Timisoara, Romania, along with our partners Osai automation systems, Asscon GmbH and March Plasma

  Amtest was proud to host a seminar in Timisoara, Romania, for an invited audience of leading electronic assemblers. Guest speakers were Paolo Mosso of Osai, covering laser technology (marking, de-paneling and soldering), Uwe Filor of Asscon discussing void free soldering and John McGuire of March plasma covering plasma chemistries and the solutions this technology provides. See more details
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  03/09/2012

  Automatic Coating Inspection Success in Amtest Region

  Amtest in partnership with Nordson Asymtek has successfully succeeded in coating inspection trials with a large EMS that has resulted in Equipment orders. See more details
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  31/08/2012

  Amtest Group along with our partner Osai automation systems announces equipment tour of Central Eastern Europe

  See more details
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  30/05/2012

  Samsung launch new placement machine SM-471

  The latest addition to the SM series was launched at Nurnberg SMT show, the SM-471.
  This pick and place machine adds additional placement speed to the ultra-flexible and reliable SM series. See more details
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  10/04/2012

  Amtest Group thanks Krisztian Kern for 10-years’ service

  Amtest is pleased to welcome Krisztian to the ’10-years’ service club’ which is a significant milestone. See more details
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  31/03/2012

  Amtest Group at Amper Trade Show, Brno, Czech Republic

  Amtest was proud to support the Amper Electronic trade show in Brno, Czech Republic by both our teams from Amtest Slovakia and Amtest Czech. See more details
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  16/02/2012

  Amtest Group Further Expands in Poland

  Amtest is pleased to welcome Dariusz Mazur to the Amtest Group Organisation. See more details
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  01/12/2011

  Amtest Group at Productronica, Munich

  Great to report that over 100 of you, our valued clients, visited and spent time on the Amtest booth.
  Not only were we proud to launch the new Mento AOI batch but we took Productronica orders for Samsung placement, Asymtek selective coating, SCH dip coating and Intertech selective soldering machines. See more details
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  11/11/2011

  Amtest Group awarded "Highest Sales Award" by HumiSeal

  Following on from the HumiSeal 2010 award as "Distributor of Year", Amtest was further honored by being awarded the 2011 Highest Sales Award at their sales conference. See more details
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  27/10/2011

  Amtest Group welcomes Osai automation as New Partner

  After successful completion of our first joint project and commissioning of the equipment in the Czech Republic, both companies have mutually agreed to extend their exclusive partnership into all Amtest Associates Group territories. See more details
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  26/10/2011

  Amtest Associates Group will be exhibiting at Productronica

  Productronica will be a milestone in the long history of the Amtest group, in that, for the 1st time, we will have our own unique stand, where we will love to welcome all our valuable clients. See more details
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  27/09/2011

  Amtest Associates Group launches new logo

  The logo incorporates a bridge signifying the technology gateway from our advanced production solution providers to our clients, whilst the claret and powder blue symbolizes determination and trust.

  See more details
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  19/09/2011

  Amtest Associates Group appoints Tony Kollar, Regional Manager for Czech Republic and Poland

  Group Amtest is pleased to advise that Anton Kollar has been internally promoted from Area Manager, Czech Republic to Regional Manager covering Czech Republic and Poland.

  See more details
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  30/06/2011

  Group Amtest opens Centre of Excellence in Budapest

  At this facility we can offer trials, evaluations and tailor made training classes. See more details
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  28/06/2011

  John Adamson

  It is with great sadness that we announce the death of John Adamson. See more details
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  01/06/2011

  New member of Sales team

  Expansion of Sales team in Amtest PL. See more details
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  07/02/2011

  Group Amtest becomes IPC member

  Members of Group Amtest team trained by IPC See more details
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  01/01/2011

  Amtest Associates Kft and Balver Zinn GmbH

  Amtest Associates Kft and Balver Zinn GmbH, sign a contract authorising Amtest Associates Kft to be the exclusive distributor of Balver Zinn and Cobar products in Hungary. See more details
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  15/12/2010

  Amtest was named Distributor of the Year 2010 by HumiSeal

  Amtest was named Distributor of the Year 2010 by HumiSeal the leading conformal coatings (lacquer) company.  See more details