CAPLINQ Europe BV signs definitive agreement to represent Aculon in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Ams­ter­dam, the Nether­lands – May 1^st, 2016 – CAPLINQ Europe BV announced today that it will become Aculon’s Euro­pean Order Ful­fill­ment Agent and Mar­ket Part­ner to fur­ther pro­mote its prod­ucts to its cus­tomers in Europe, the Mid­dle East and Africa. Under the terms of the agree­ment, CAPLINQ will rep­re­sent Acu­lon’s line of Nan­oClear™ and NanoProof™ prod­ucts among others.

Aculon is leading provider of easy-to-apply nanotech surface-modification technologies

Acu­lon, a lead­ing thin film sur­face treat­ment com­pa­ny, cre­ates and mar­kets treat­ments for the elec­tron­ics, oil & gas and Spe­cial­ty mar­kets. Acu­lon, based in San Diego, CA, USA has mar­ket lead­ing sten­cil and PCB treat­ments. With more and more demand com­ing from Europe for this tech­nol­o­gy, Acu­lon rec­og­nized they need­ed to have a local pres­ence to prop­er­ly serve the Euro­pean market.

“Our cus­tomers sim­ply told us that they want­ed us to have Euro­pean tech­ni­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and local tech­ni­cal sup­port” says Edward Hugh­es, CEO of Acu­lon. “We are very excit­ed about the coop­er­a­tion with Chris Per­abo, Ivo Verz­i­jl­ber­gen and the rest of the CAPLINQ team. We believe that with the sup­port of CAPLINQ Europe, we can serve our exist­ing cus­tomers, devel­op new ones and be more cost com­pet­i­tive in the Euro­pean market.”

Aculon NanoClear, NanoProof and Repellency treatments

With Nan­oClear, Acu­lon has proven itself as an award-win­ning tech­nol­o­gy leader to the sten­cil indus­try. Acu­lon Nan­oClear® is the best-in-class sten­cil treat­ment tech­nol­o­gy that improves print qual­i­ty, increas­es effi­cien­cy, low­ers total costs and enhances print­ing with small apertures.

Acu­lon’s award-win­ning NanoProof® Series offer cus­tomers a range of PCB water­proof­ing solu­tions from pro­tect­ing against acci­den­tal water dam­age (NanoProof 1.0) to IPX7, immer­sion in water at one meter depth for 30 min­utes (NanoProof 3.5, NanoProof 4.0), to greater bar­ri­er prop­er­ties that can with­stand 100 hours immer­sion in sweat solu­tions and some of the most strin­gent test meth­ods devel­oped for non-her­met­ic com­po­nents (NanoProof 5.1).

Aculon’s has a range of repel­len­cy treat­ments which are super­hy­dropho­bic and oleo­pho­bic as well as met­al-repel­len­cy mate­ri­als for total pro­tec­tion to a spe­cif­ic envi­ron­ment. Acu­lon coat­ings can be as thin as 2–4 nanome­ters or upto sev­er­al microns thick and can be applied on sen­si­tive elec­tron­ics and oth­er com­po­nents. Min­i­mal cap­i­tal equip­ment is need­ed and already applied by var­i­ous OEMS.

Aculon and Caplinq — A PERFECT FIT

The range of Aculon’s high end spe­cial­ty sur­face treat­ment mate­ri­als com­bined with Caplinq Europe’s team of engi­neer­ing and tech­ni­cal pro­fes­sion­als focused on spe­cial­ty chem­i­cals is a good foun­da­tion for future successes.

“From the first meet­ings with Edward and Mario (Gat­tuso), we were con­vinced that Aculon’s prod­ucts have a high poten­tial in the Euro­pean mar­ket,” stat­ed Chris Per­abo, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of CAPLINQ. “Sur­face treat­ments on a nanoscale is the future, and Aculon’s expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in this area are sec­ond to none. This part­ner­ship is sure to gen­er­ate more and more com­mer­cial successes.”

About Aculon, Inc.

Acu­lon, Inc. is the lead­ing provider of easy-to-apply nan­otech sur­face-mod­i­fi­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies and com­mer­cial­izes unique sur­face and inter­fa­cial coat­ings lever­ag­ing nan­otech­nol­o­gy and oth­er sur­face mod­i­fi­ca­tion tech­niques. Aculon’s orig­i­nal focus was the opti­cal indus­try devel­op­ing treat­ments of pre­scrip­tion eye­wear, sun­glass­es and oth­er optics. There are now three core focus areas: Elec­tron­ics, Oil & Gas and a Spe­cial­ty treat­ment business.

About CAPLINQ

CAPLINQ is a spe­cial­ty chem­i­cals, plas­tics and prod­ucts com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in mak­ing for­eign com­pa­nies com­pete on a lev­el play­ing field with Euro­pean sup­pli­ers. With more than 300MT year­ly of chem­i­cals and plas­tics com­ing through Rot­ter­dam in the Nether­lands and a staff of engi­neers and tech­ni­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives, CAPLINQ is a mod­ern-day mar­ket part­ner. Using dig­i­tal-age tools and the same legal tech­niques multi­na­tion­als use, we cre­ate a Euro­pean pres­ence for for­eign com­pa­nies with­out them requir­ing to set up a Euro­pean enti­ty. We do this with four pri­ma­ry ser­vices: our order ful­fill­ment Europe ser­vice, our tech­ni­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tion ser­vice, our tech­ni­cal mar­ket­ing ser­vice and our REACH Only Rep­re­sen­ta­tive service.

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