History

Company Background

MARTIN GmbH has earned a world wide reputation for rigorous development work in dispensing and rework technologies.

In the permanently shrinking size of electronic components of the emerging SMD technology the founder of the company, Bernhard Martin, recognised a promising new field of work: he concentrated at first on dispensing, started the company while still a student and opened new perspectives for the technology of small dots with the development of an Adhesive Volume Gauge.

A few years later MARTIN GmbH developed a microprocessor controlled SMD Compact Unit (DBL-01) for soldering, dispensing and placement on printed circuit boards: 1989 a novelty in the SMT world.

MARTIN achieved a milestone for increased quality in reworking PCBs in 1991 with the innovation of an IR Underheater. Not only a new product but also a key technology for rework!

The introduction of the Dot-Liner in 1997 set new standards for the automatic dispensing of micro dots and lines; a further major step in precision and cost effectiveness by MARTIN.

With the introduction of the new Auto-Vision-Expert 09.5 in 2005 MARTIN achieved remarkable success. After almost a thousand units sold of the previous model this enhanced version quickly became the world-wide standard for the rework and repair of mobile phones.

2009 saw the appearance of Hybrid Technology into the realms of rework. MARTIN’s new Underheater works with IR radiation and is supported by a gentle flow of hot air. The result is an optimised temperature distribution, which enables boards with reflective surfaces (ceramic, copper, gold) to be processed with greater ease. This technology is used in the systems 10.6 und 10.6XL .