Europlacer, the France-based specialist in flexible SMT pick-and-place systems, has announced its participation at Focus on PCB – From Design to Assembly, scheduled for 13–14 May 2026 in Vicenza, Italy. The company will be represented in collaboration with its Italian distribution partner Win Tek.
Focus on PCB is an established Italian trade event covering the full electronics manufacturing chain, from PCB design through to final assembly. The Vicenza edition draws manufacturers, contract electronics manufacturers (CEMs) and EMS providers primarily from northern Italy, a region with a dense concentration of industrial electronics production.
At the event, Europlacer and Win Tek plan to showcase the company's high-mix SMT assembly capabilities. High-mix, low-to-medium volume production remains a key challenge for European EMS providers, who face increasing product variety driven by industrial, medical and automotive electronics customers. Flexible placement platforms that can handle frequent changeovers, varied component types and small batch sizes are central to addressing this demand.
Europlacer's portfolio centres on pick-and-place platforms designed specifically for agile production environments. The company positions its machines as suited to operations where rapid job changeover, feeder flexibility and intuitive programming are priorities — characteristics relevant to the Italian and broader European EMS segment, which is characterised by a large number of small and medium-sized contract manufacturers.
The participation of local distributor Win Tek underlines the importance of regional sales and support infrastructure for capital equipment in the SMT sector. For smaller Italian CEMs evaluating new placement equipment, proximity of service and application support is frequently cited as a decisive factor alongside machine performance metrics.
Focus on PCB serves as a focused regional platform ahead of larger international events such as productronica. For exhibitors, it offers direct access to Italian-speaking decision-makers in electronics manufacturing without the scale and cost of a major international trade fair. Europlacer's presence there signals continued investment in the Italian market as part of its European distribution strategy.
Quelle: Europlacer – https://europlacer.com/europlacer-highlights-high-mix-assembly-expertise-at-focus-on-pcb-italy-with-win-tek/
