Cistelaier S.p.A.

SERVICES

Cistelaier’s processes have been designed in order to be fast and reliable from feasibility analysis to shipment of the finished printed circuit boards.

Cistelaier S.p.A. designed its factory and implemented the necessary organization in order to be able to deliver quick turnaround (QTA) service: this enable Cistelaier’s customers to get prototypes with short lead time so to improve their time to market and their business performance. Cistelaier’s Manufacturing System is managed according to Lean principles and this increase its capabilities to deliver quality and service to customers.

All information related to products coming from customers are systematically verified (Key Point Analysis) in order to identify any risk factors (Risk Analysis) with the use of DFM and FMEA type evaluation techniques.

Its valuable heritage in “all” market sectors enables Cistelaier S.p.A. to support customers since the early stage of their projects in order to implement the best practices for PCB design to increase effectiveness of the PCBs in each and every specific application.

MARKET SECTORS

Thanks to its know-how and accreditations, to its absolutely reliable products and to its extremely flexible service Cistelaier has been able to become a technological partner of customers performing in the following sectors:

• Avionics
• Aerospace & Defense
• Space
• Electronics for the Railway sector
• Telecommunications
• Vision technology systems
• Automotive
• Motorsport
• Infotainment
• Medical
• Industrial Automation
• Renewable energy sources
• University and R&D

Up today more than 50% of the turnover of Cistelaier S.p.A. is related to Aerospace & Defense applications.

TECHNOLOGY

Cistelaier S.p.A. constantly invests in machineries and equipments at the state of the art of technology and suitable for QTA management and flexibility to produce for the whole of the market sectors/applications where different and specific materials are needed.

Cistelaier S.p.A. validated its processes to produce with more than 100 different base materials.

Cistelaier S.p.A. is also partner of several of its suppliers for machineries, equipment, material and chemistry for R&D projects to develop new solutions for the PCB industry.

Technological capabilities are also assured by Cistelaier’s highly skilled people in PCB industrialization, in PCB manufacturing and in Production and Quality methods.

PRODUCTS

Cistelaier S.p.A. produces all kind of PCBs

PCB families: rigid (up to 40 layers) and rigid flex (up to 12 flex layers) PCBs / rigid HDI and rigid flex HDI PCBs

Materials: standard and high performance materials (i.e. Hi Tg, Alogen Free, Hi speed, epoxy and polyimidic resin materials, copper/invar/copper, Hi frequency materials Teflon and not Teflon based, thick copper materials) / mixed materials

Power Management: busbars , heavy copper , copper inlay, different thickness on same layer and selective plating;

Heat Management: heat dissipator, paste dissipator application, metal back PCB, copper coin technology

Size: up to 860 mm length and 470 mm width

Thickness: up to 5.5 mm

Fine line/space: down to 75 m Finishes: Tin-Lead reflow; HASL with and without Lead;

Enig (Al bondable); Chemical Tin & Chemical Ag; ENIPIG (Au bondable); Galvanic hard and soft gold

SPACE SECTOR

Even if it is producing PCBs for Space applications since more than 10 years, Cistelaier S.p.A. is more and more focusing in Space sector since year 2013.

In the last 5 years Cistelaier manufactured according to ECSS more than 50 part numbers and tested all PCBs manufactured for “fly purpose” through ECSS Group 6 qualification process.

Cistelaier S.p.A. manufactured for Space sector PCBs with the following features

Multilayers PCBs up to 18 layers

Epoxy & Polyimide resin base material, glass or para-aramidic fiber support

Standard ML , Sequential Lamination and HDI build up

Laser drilled and copper filled vias

Mechanically drilled Filled & Capped vias

Minimum vias of 0.15 mm

Thickness up to 2.80 mm

Aspect ratio up to 9.3:1

Tin-Lead Reflow finishing

Selective Electolytic Nickel/Gold

Test results showed high reliability of the PCBs manufactured by Cistelaier S.p.A.