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Press release

Presteigne, UK
26th October 2004

IMAPS SHOWCASE FOR LABTECH'S CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY

Labtech will be showcasing the company's hi-tech capability at The 37th International Symposium on Microelectronics in Long Beach, California from November 16-18.

The symposium, sponsored by the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society (IMAPS), covers the latest developments in microelectronics and will have over 200 companies exhibiting.

It will be the first time that Labtech, one of the world's leading manufacturers of microwave printed circuit boards for the global Telecommunications, Defence and Space markets, has attended the IMAPS Exhibition.

The company will be represented by John Priday, engineering and quality executive and Mark Gullotti, national sales manager for North America, who are looking forward to meeting existing and new customers at Booth 258.

They will be promoting Labtech's cutting edge Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC) packaging technology and microelectronics assembly services.

John recently collaborated with Marc van Heijningen, of TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory (TNO-FEL) in Holland, to produce a technical paper on a novel low cost SMD package for high power MMICs that was well received at the recent European Microwave Conference in Amsterdam.

The two companies are members of a European Union IST funded collaborative programme called SMACKS (Surface Mount Assembly for Communications KA band Systems), which evaluated various high frequency MMIC packaging options.

“The location of the IMAPS Exhibition is important to Labtech as many of our customers in the commercial, space and defence markets are based in California,” said Labtech's sales and marketing director Bob Lowther.

“It's one of the main symposiums for covering the packaging side of our activity and supplements the microwave shows that we attend in the United States and Europe.

“We have attracted a lot of interest in our MMIC packaging technology at previous shows this year and look forward to promoting our range of services in Long Beach. As our packaging technology has moved on to new levels, new business opportunities have been created.

Labtech has developed MMIC custom packaging solutions utilising organic substrates as a low cost alternative to existing technologies. Offering low cost NRE and tooling, the solutions are targeted at Ka/Ku band applications and the Optical components market.

Labtech is one of the companies forming Intelek plc, which supplies leading edge technologies to the world's electronics and aerospace markets. Intelek was one of the first companies to be listed on the London Stock Exchange's techMARK Index.

For more information, please contact:

Bob Lowther - Labtech
Tel: +44 (0)1544 260093
Email: b.Lowther@labtech.ltd.uk
Web: www.labtechcircuits.com

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