Speedline Technologies Forms Sales and Marketing Alliance with Tamura FA System Corporation.

FRANKLIN, Mass. -- Speedline Technologies, Inc., (www.speedlinetech.com) the world leader for single source process solutions for the PCB assembly and semiconductor packaging industries, has entered into a new sales and marketing alliance with Tamura FA System Corporation for the Japanese market.

Under the terms of the alliance, Tamura will market Speedline's industry leading Accuflex and AP Excel stencil printers under the MPM/Tamura brand in Japan. The firm will also provide local service and support to Japanese customers as an extension of Speedline's worldwide support infrastructure.

"As the market leader for reflow and wave soldering equipment in Japan, Tamura's highly skilled staff understands the challenges manufacturers face throughout the assembly production process," said Pierre de Villemejane, President & CEO, Speedline Technologies, Inc. "With this announcement, we are excited about working with Tamura FA System Corporation as our companies cooperate to provide a new and invaluable resource for product, process knowledge, solutions, and services for customers throughout Japan."

"With this marketing and sales alliance, Tamura is well positioned to leverage MPM's leadership in printing technology and process expertise," said Tomoyuki Nakano, President of Tamura FA System Corporation. "We will translate software and manuals into Japanese so that the user experience is completely seamless for the Japanese market. We also look forward to working with Speedline to develop additional features specific for our customer base here in Japan. This alliance will allow our customers to take advantage of our strong sales and service organization while gaining access to the leading printing technology from MPM."

Tamura FA System Corporation is headquartered in Sayama City, Saitama Japan and has 155 employees throughout Asia, including Singapore, China and Japan.

Speedline Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Franklin, MA and has employees and distributors throughout Asia. With a strong service and sales organization throughout the region, the Speedline Asian team will be interfacing directly with Tamura for this important sales and marketing alliance.

About Speedline Technologies

Speedline Technologies is the global leader for single-source process knowledge, solutions, and service to the PCB assembly and semiconductor packaging industries. Based in Franklin, Massachusetts, USA, the company sells five, best-in-class brands - Accel(R) microelectronics cleaning, Camalot(R) dispensing systems, Electrovert(R) wave soldering, reflow soldering, and cleaning equipment, MPM(R) stencil and screen printing systems, and Protect(R) global services, support, and training solutions. For more information, visit us at www.speedlinetech.com.

About Tamura

Tamura FA System Corporation is the global leader for Pb-Free soldering equipments, soldering process technology, solutions, and services to the PCB assembly and semiconductor packing industries. Based in Sayama City, Saitama Japan, the company sells Nitrogen and Air Reflow ovens and Spray Fluxers for VOC, Nitrogen and Air Wave Systems with built in Flat Linear Induction Pumps (Mr.Flip(R)) as well as Nitrogen Gas Generators. For more information, visit us at http://tamura-ss.co.jp.