KIC Press Release March 16, 2009 - KIC Names The Balver Zinn Group as a Value-Added Reseller

(San Diego, CA -- March 16, 2009) : KIC, the leader of thermal process development and control products, and winner of multiple industry awards, announces that the BALVER ZINN Group is now a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for KIC‘s products.

Balver Zinn‘s KIC-trained staff will use KIC‘s products, providing added value by helping customers to quickly get the best results from Balver Zinn‘s excellent pastes and materials. They now offer these products to their large worldwide customer base.

MB Allen, General Manager of KIC‘s European Operations, says, "We are very pleased to have Balver Zinn Group as our VAR partner. They have been very successful here in Europe and have expanded worldwide. They may now offer their customers the tools needed to optimize their reflow and wave production with KIC‘s easy-to-use products and software. I am happy to be working with Josef Jost and his team, and believe our profiling, optimization and monitoring products will compliment Balver Zinn‘s products, especially SN100C™."

Nihon Superior Ltd. Co.‘s SN100C is a lead-free alloy of tin, copper, nickel and germanium. Its unique properties make it possible to achieve high productivity in soldering processes to produce cost effectively reliable joints. Special features include high fluidity, low copper erosion, low drossing, superior wetting and freedom from shrinkage defects. The number of companies using SN100C has grown dramatically since its first application in 1999 in the soldering of VCR boards.

For further information, contact MB Allen at +39.06.4547.3670 or europe.sales@kicmail.com.

About KIC
Based in San Diego, KIC is the industry leader in automated thermal management tools and systems for reflow, wave, cure and semiconductor thermal processes. The company pioneered the development of oven profilers and process development tools, and then worked to create the next generation of thermal systems to help manufacturers optimize and monitor thermal processes.
In addition to KIC Explorer, products include the KIC 24/7 continuous monitoring system, the KIC Vision automatic profiling system and more. With the introduction of cutting edge tools, the company continues to stay on the leading edge of process optimization and real-time thermal management systems, and has won numerous industry awards.