From January 2017 the BINDI pool will become an even more reliable option. Eurocircuits will process the circuit boards up to and including the etching process in India, after which the PCBs are shipped to Europe and the manufacturing is finished at Eurocircuits’ production facilities in either Eger or in Aachen, depending on the production planning. This means that the finishing operations of these circuit boards will be exactly the same as those manufactured entirely in Europe, so the final finish of all circuit boards from all services will be uniform.
 
This also means that we can choose the same options for our finished board, irrespective whether we are using the STANDARD pool or the BINDI pool. This includes mechanical operations, solder mask colors, finish, carbon, etcetera. And of course all circuit boards are subject to the high standard of the European quality control at Eurocircuits that we have become accustomed to.
 

To give you a complete overview, here follow the technical production capabilities available via the BINDI pool:
 
  • 0, 1, 2 and 4 layers possible
  • maximum dimensions 580x425 mm (501x425 mm for multilayer)
  • board thickness 1.00 mm, 1.55 and 2.4 mm for double-sided boards, others: 1.55 mm
  • copper thickness for single-sided board 35 µm
  • copper thickness for double-sided board 18 or 35 µm
  • copper thickness for multi-layer boards 18 µm for the outer layers, 35 µm for the inner layers
  • 150 µm / 6 mil technology
  • completely finished with two solder masks, available in all colors and single-sided or double-sided silk screen layers
  • lead-free finish: Any lead-free, HAL (Hot Air Leveling), Che Ni/Au, Che Ag
  • All known advanced options (peelable layer, carbon, heatsink paste, etcetera)
  • FR-4-material that complies with RoHS for lead-free soldering (Td>=325°C, T260>=60’, T288>=10’, CTEz=<3.5%, Tg=150°C)
  • minimum drill diameter 0.25 mm
  • minimum pad diameter outer layers 0.350 mm (0.200 mm for NPTH)
  • minimum pad diameter inner layers 0.350 mm (0.250mm for NPTH)
  • minimum copper to board edge outer layers 0.250 mm (routed), 0.450 mm (V-cut)
  • minimum copper to board edge inner layers 0.400 mm (routed), 0.450 mm (V-cut)
  • no tooling costs
  • 100% guaranteed manufacturability before productions begins
  • 100% electric test of all circuit boards
 
We already have had several successful circuit board production runs ourselves via the BINDI pool (for example the TAPIR and the Improved radiation meter) and have been very satisfied with the quality. We can therefore higly recommend the BINDI pool from Eurociruits for medium sized production quantities. To obtain the low price, really the only thing you sacrifice is the delivery time, this is 20 days. Really no all that bad, now that you know how the manufacturing of the BINDI pool works.