News from Awing.

On December 15, 2024, Wuxi Awing Technology Co., Ltd. held a relocation ceremony at Huaqing Chuangzhi Park, Huishan Economic Development Zone, Wuxi, attended by the company's management, employees and guests from all walks of life. Since its founding, Awing has focused on plasma cleaning process technology and has made its mark with a professional team and quality service. The new office area covers 2,000 square meters and integrates modern offices, R&D and production, showroom and other functional areas, and the upgraded environment will support the company's development. This relocation is not only an upgrade of the office environment but also an important step in the company's strategic plan. It means that Awing will continue to deepen its presence in the industry with higher standards and more professional service, keep innovating and making breakthroughs, strive to provide customers with better solutions, advance technological progress in the industry, and contribute more to local economic development. As the ceremony proceeded, guests were guided by the Awing team on a tour of the new office area, gaining an in-depth understanding of Awing's corporate culture, development plans and latest product and technology achievements. The new office environment reflects Awing's vitality and spirit of innovation at every turn, and its modern facilities and people-oriented design left a deep impression on everyone. For Wuxi Awing Technology Co., Ltd., this relocation is both an opportunity and a challenge. Standing at a new starting point, Awing will take the relocation as an opportunity to forge ahead, upholding its business philosophy: "Seek truth, be pragmatic; customer first; sincerity and integrity; quality always", continuing to explore and innovate in the field of technology, and writing an even more brilliant chapter.

productronica China, an important exhibition and exchange platform for the electronics manufacturing industry, will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (Halls E1-E6 & C3) on March 20-22, 2024. The show will bring together more than 800 innovative companies from the electronics manufacturing industry, with an exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Exhibits cover the entire electronics manufacturing industry chain, including electronic and chemical materials, dispensing and bonding technology, electronics assembly automation, test and measurement and quality assurance, electronics manufacturing services, surface mount technology, cable harness processing and connector manufacturing, component manufacturing, motion control and drive technology, industrial sensors, robotics and intelligent warehousing, offering a one-stop, complete and efficient way to grasp leading global technologies and products across the entire smart manufacturing and electronics innovation industry chain.

On April 21, Wuxi Awing's newly developed new-generation microwave plasma cleaner was successfully shipped to a customer site in Hefei. With the rapid development of high-end integrated circuit chips, pin density keeps increasing, requirements regarding sensitivity to static electricity generated during the cleaning process are becoming ever stricter, and cleanliness requirements are rising accordingly. Conventional wet cleaning or 13.56MHz RF plasma cleaning can no longer fully meet these cleaning requirements, and so the microwave plasma cleaning process has emerged and is likely to become the next mainstream precision cleaning process. Compared with RF plasma cleaning, it offers the following advantages: High ion density, for faster and more uniform reactions Low self-bias voltage, with no electrostatic damage to the devices being cleaned Gentler cleaning, with no sputter contamination of the products being cleaned New and existing customers are welcome to call us for consultation: 0510-83595266 18551045188

Recently, we learned from the official website of the Wuxi Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology that, in order to strengthen category-based support and targeted cultivation of innovative enterprises, and in accordance with the Policy Opinions on Supporting the High-quality Development of Modern Industries issued by the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government (Xi Wei Fa No. 59) and the Notice of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau on Organizing Applications for the 2022 Wuxi Eaglet Enterprise, Gazelle Enterprise and Quasi-Unicorn Enterprise Evaluation and Selection (Xi Ke Gao No. 212), the results of the 2022 Wuxi Eaglet Enterprise, Gazelle Enterprise and Quasi-Unicorn Enterprise evaluation and selection have now been published for public notice, following enterprise applications, recommendations from the local competent authorities, expert review, comprehensive examination and approval at the director's office meeting of the Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology. Wuxi Awing Technology Co., Ltd. is on the list. Since our company became a High-tech Enterprise, its management has attached great importance to intellectual property and business growth, planning patent applications, sound financial arrangements and rapid growth of the core business from multiple angles. This has further improved the company's growth potential and industry competitiveness and laid a solid foundation for its next stage of planning.

Wuxi Awing's booth is B3-04. You are welcome to visit and offer your guidance!

On November 3, 2021, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Administrative Measures for the Recognition of High-tech Enterprises (Guo Ke Fa Huo No. 32) and the Guidelines for the Administration of High-tech Enterprise Recognition (Guo Ke Fa Huo No. 195), the list of 3,030 high-tech enterprises in Jiangsu Province's first batch of recognitions filed for 2021 (see the attachment for details) was published for public comment, with a public notice period of 10 working days. Our company is on the list. Since being entered into the high-tech enterprise database in 2020, our company has strictly followed high-tech enterprise standards, setting strict requirements in technology, R&D, marketing, finance and other areas. We have successively applied for 12 utility model patents and 2 invention patents, strengthened industry-university-research cooperation, and developed two new product projects, laying a solid foundation for successfully passing the high-tech enterprise recognition.

Dear Awing customers, partners, and friends who care about Awing's development: Happy New Year to you all! The year 2021, now drawing to a close, has witnessed many events worthy of the history books. The global pandemic kept resurging, the world economy was severely shaken, and China–US relations went through ups and downs. Under the impact of many unexpected factors, combined with rapidly growing demand, 2021 was a turbulent year for the global integrated circuit industry. If one word could sum up the IC industry in 2021, it would be “shortage”: every element of the entire IC industry chain was in short supply. Whether automotive, new energy, mobile phones, consumer electronics or home appliances, almost every application field was short of chips; whether microcontrollers, power chips or communication chips, almost every category of chip was in short supply; whether equipment, materials, production capacity or talent, almost every industry factor was lacking. 2021 was also a major development opportunity for China's integrated circuit industry. 2021 was the first year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan. At the start of the year, the national Two Sessions adopted the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 of the People's Republic of China, which elevated the IC industry to a fundamental, core position bearing on national security and overall development, and called for concentrating superior resources to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies, based on the country's urgent and long-term needs. In 2021, against a complex domestic and international backdrop, China's IC industry turned crisis into opportunity. Domestic chips, which had previously faced great difficulty in gaining adoption, gained valuable application opportunities because imported chips were out of stock; heavy-asset, long-cycle IC investments, previously out of favor with capital markets, became a red-hot investment direction; and IC majors, once unpopular with students as tough and exhausting, became popular choices in the college entrance and graduate entrance exams. For the young Awing partnership team, 2021 was a year of rising with the tailwind and reaping a rich harvest. We exceeded the targets set at the start of the year and were successfully recognized as a National High-tech Enterprise and an Eaglet Enterprise; we successfully developed a microwave plasma cleaner, formally opening up applications in the defense industry; our intellectual property management standard system took shape, and we filed more than 20 patent applications in total, with 2 invention patents. Friends, 2021 is about to pass, and 2022 is about to arrive. We look up at the stars. Against the backdrop of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the building of a modern socialist country in all respects, we are full of hope for our country and for the development of China's IC industry. Our direction is clear: to take root in the IC industry and grow bigger, stronger and more refined in the niche field of plasma cleaning, unwavering in our commitment, with a promising future ahead. We keep our feet on the ground. Amid the current clamor and excitement in China's IC industry, we must always keep a clear head. We are still at an early stage of the industry's development, transitioning from lagging behind the international state of the art across the board to lagging behind it only in some areas. The road ahead is long and hard; we must stay modest and prudent, and guard against arrogance and impatience. We stay true to our original aspiration. We are in a golden period of the industry's development; perhaps our company will grow quickly, and perhaps our wealth will grow quickly. We hope that, whatever stage we reach, we will always keep our reverence for the industry and our love for our work, striving forward without slackening. We forge ahead. The future is bright, but the road will still be rough and winding. No success comes easily, and no good fortune falls from the sky; along the way we will inevitably meet many obstacles that seem insurmountable. Great undertakings must be accomplished through attention to detail, and difficult tasks must begin with the easy parts. Let us join hands to climb one mountain after another and fill one pit after another, with the perseverance of Yugong moving the mountains and Jingwei filling the sea. “A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves; I'll set my cloud-white sail and cross the vast sea.” The great changes unseen in a century have begun. Are you all ready?

Specific maintenance of in-line plasma cleaners: 1. Check the vacuum pump oil level and oil purity. Check the vacuum pump oil level and oil purity every month by observing the oil level window. When the oil level approaches the lowest red line mark, top up to between the upper and lower red oil lines; observe the oil color. Normal oil is clean and transparent. When the oil is turbid (the oil turns gray or the oil level window becomes blurred) and the vacuum pump makes abnormal noise, replace the vacuum pump oil promptly. 2. Clean the reaction chamber of the in-line plasma cleaner. First wipe the vacuum chamber with a degreased cotton cloth moistened with anhydrous ethanol (commonly known as alcohol) (do not wipe the reaction chamber viewing glass with ethanol). Second, introduce gas into the chamber (argon + oxygen or nitrogen + oxygen) and use the plasma reaction to remove residues in the chamber. Do this at least once a month, for about 10 minutes each time. 3. For the plasma cleaner, check the integrity of the plastic tubing and the vacuum seal, and self-check the integrity of the equipment. After thoroughly cleaning the reaction chamber, prevent contaminants from leaking into the chamber. Check whether the sealing strip on the reaction chamber door is loose. Check whether every gas line is securely connected and whether it has aged. 4. Check the power supply of the vacuum plasma cleaner to make sure the voltage matches the equipment.

Plasma cleaning technology can remove particulate contaminants from material surfaces, making the surfaces better suited to bonding or printing. The contaminants removed are mainly particulate contaminants such as organic matter, epoxy resin, photoresist, oxides and micro-particle contaminants. So how can the cleaning results be tested after plasma cleaning? Are there any simple methods? Before a plasma cleaner is used to treat products in batches, samples are usually treated first, and batch treatment of the products begins only after the results meet expectations, which better ensures efficiency. Among the many testing methods, water drop angle (contact angle) meter testing and dyne pen testing are the two most commonly used; there are also methods that use dedicated instruments or the results of special processes to reflect the cleaning results. A water drop angle meter is a contact angle meter, and contact angle measurement is currently one of the more common methods for evaluating plasma cleaning results. The cleaning result is assessed by comparing the change in the water drop angle before and after treatment: the smaller the water contact angle, the better the cleaning result. The specific method is as follows: before and after the sample is treated, place a drop of pure water on the sample surface, perform a 3D contact angle measurement through the microscope on the instrument to measure the drop angle each time, and compare the contact angles before and after to judge the cleaning result. This method gives accurate test data, is simple and quick to operate, and has high repeatability and stability, making it one of the commonly used testing methods. The water contact angle meter is a fairly common instrument for testing plasma treatment, but it is not suitable for testing all plasma-treated products. Materials differ in initial surface energy, and the reactions that take place on their surfaces after plasma treatment also differ. The cleaning results of most products can be tested with a water contact angle meter. One point to note is that when using the water contact angle test, the size of the water droplet should be kept similar for each test.

There are two types of in-line plasma cleaners: atmospheric-pressure in-line plasma cleaners and in-line vacuum plasma cleaners. The atmospheric-pressure in-line plasma cleaner is also low-temperature plasma treatment equipment and does not damage the material surface. It produces no arcing, requires no vacuum chamber and no harmful-gas extraction system, and is very widely used. Atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment machines treat materials with flat surfaces, or treat only a specific spot. An atmospheric-pressure plasma cleaner can treat materials 2m wide and can meet the surface treatment needs of most existing industrial materials, and it costs less than vacuum plasma. However, its parameters are harder to control, and it cannot handle irregularly shaped parts: many irregularly shaped parts cannot be treated on all sides. Compared with off-line vacuum plasma cleaners, in-line vacuum plasma cleaners have lower capacity. Because in-line vacuum plasma cleans a small quantity at a time, it is a higher-precision cleaning method and cleans more thoroughly and completely than off-line vacuum plasma. Off-line vacuum cleaning processes a large batch at once, and inevitably a few parts in the batch do not 100% meet requirements, whereas an in-line plasma cleaner cleans one or a few parts at a time, giving better cleaning results. In-line vacuum plasma can also deliver very high capacity, but the machine cost rises severalfold accordingly. In-line vacuum plasma cleaners suit industries that require high cleaning precision but do not have very large volumes; for example, some LED bracket applications use in-line vacuum plasma, and shoe machines also use in-line vacuum plasma.