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HERAEUS electronics
Heraeus Holding GmbH, headquartered
in Hanau, Germany, is a leading interna-
tional family-owned company founded in
1851. The technology group is constantly
striving to improve its business perfor-
mance through technical competence,
a focus on innovation, operational excel-
lence, and entrepreneurial leadership.
Combining material and technological
expertise, Heraeus’s high-quality solu-
tions ensure that users are, and remain,
highly competitive. The company’s port-
folio of products, ranging from compo-
nents to coordinated material systems,
is used in the steel, electronics, chemical,
automotive, and telecommunications
industries, among others.
As a technology company, Heraeus is
well-versed in the specialized require-
ments of electronics such as those used
in automobiles, electric trains, industrial
engines, and wind turbines.
From materials to system solutions
The technology group has made a name
for itself in integrated circuit and mount-
ing technologies with such high-perfor-
mance products as soldering and sinter
pastes, bonding wires and ribbons, ter-
minals and lead frames, and copper thick
film pastes. The Heraeus Material Systems
portfolio program is now expanding
to include metal-ceramic substrates
(e.g. DCBs) and coordinated material
systems. Customers use these primarily
for power electronics, for example in
sophisticated applications in the fields
of automotive and industrial electronics.
Heraeus is positioning itself in the market
as a provider of system solutions that
offers customers matched, prequalified
and/or ready-made material systems.
This makes Heraeus a reliable partner with
regard to individual products and topics;
the company’s expertise on specific
materials also enables it to create entire
material systems. Providing these com-
plete packages and solutions allows
Heraeus to enter into an innovative, co-
operative exchange with its customers
and users. This makes it possible to bet-
ter coordinate process and development
capacities and reduce development time
and costs.
Application center
To develop material systems more quickly
and systematically, Heraeus opened a
new application, research, and develop-
ment center for electronics/power elec-
tronics at its Hanau site in 2015. There,
employees are developing new materials
and material systems like those mentioned
above. They are also building prototypes
and modules, and testing them to en-
sure that they meet customer specifica-
tions and application requirements.
Heraeus takes into account the entire
value chain and is already thinking about
the demands of material technology
several years from now.
In the application center employees are developing
new materials and material systems. They are also
building prototypes and modules, and testing them.
To develop material systems more quickly and systematically, Heraeus opened a new application, research,
and development center for electronics/power electronics at its Hanau site.
