
 Martin Oud, R&D Director
February 18, 2011
Coining, Inc. proudly announces the promotion of Martin Oud to the newly created position of Research & Development Director. In this role, Mr. Oud takes on increased responsibility for the development of new product, process and material technologies to further enhance Coining's portfolio of capabilities.
"Martin is one of the best scientists in the entire microelectronic packaging materials industry," remarks Coining's CEO Gary Holcomb. "His technical knowhow and experience have been vital to every Coining innovation in the past ten years."
"He is a wealth of knowledge," seconds Ken Whited, Coining's President. "Martin is particularly expert in critical low and mid-range temperature soldering applications involving popular gold tin preforms as well as preforms composed of other widely used, and some emerging, alloys of metals such as gold, tin, indium, bismuth and antimony."
"This is my eleventh year with Coining," explains Mr. Oud who previously worked for microelectronic solder products supplier Billiton Witmetaal in The Netherlands from 1985 to 2000. "As Coining has grown, so have the technical challenges we face. I enjoy my role here and look forward to making more contributions in the future."
Mr. Oud received his Masters of Science degree in Metallurgy from the University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. He began his career as an application metallurgist with industrial gas supplier AGA in The Netherlands before joining Billiton Witmetaal.
Coining, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of gold tin, pure gold and other solder preforms and brazing preforms worldwide and a leading producer of gold, copper and silver bonding wire, aluminum bonding wire and ribbon, solder wire, jumper chips, bonding pads, tabs, heat sinks, lead frames, solder spheres and cover assemblies for microelectronics packaging and assembly. The company manufactures products at its facilities in Montvale, New Jersey, USA; Penang, Malaysia; and Casablanca, Morocco, maintains a workforce of 200 employees worldwide and supplies more than 1,000 customers in over thirty countries.
For more information about Coining, please visit www.coininginc.com or email sales@coininginc.com.
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