Atotech and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (“SEL”) announced that they will partner at SEL's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility under construction in Idaho, USA. SEL will utilize Atotech's innovative Uniplate® equipment technology in their new 162,000 square-foot facility that will serve as home for SEL's printed circuit board manufacturing operation. The Uniplate® family of equipment is the industry standard for horizontal inline printed circuit board processes, from desmear and metallization to flash copper plating.

The lines are scheduled to be commissioned in 2022. Atotech's significant investment into environmentally sound solutions benefits customers' products and their production processes. These solutions reduce water, chemistry, energy, and waste generation, while reducing costs and meeting customer expectations for future PCB manufacturing.