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Gerjan Diepstraten has been appointed to the position of Process Support Manager to Cobar Europe BV. Diepstraten previously served Vitronics Soltec as Senior Engineer. His engineering experience spans 27 years, with the last 18 years in soldering. He has a mechanical engineering background and began his career in 1989 as a mechanical designer at Soltec B.V. His first projects covered the implementation of spray fluxes and the introduction of VOC-free water based fluxes in the wave soldering process. After finalizing the design of the Delta Wave system, Diepstraten advanced to the position of process engineer. From 1998 he had been a member of the Vitronics Soltec Technology Group. He has focused on the technology of lead-free soldering for more than eight years. In order to support customers with the Lead-free implementation Diepstraten worked on the “5 Steps to Successful Lead-Free soldering” project that included three worldwide seminar tours and a free CD-Rom of which more than 200,000 copies were sent all over the world. Over the years he did workshops and presentations at different seminars including APEX, EIPC, IPC conferences, FAPS, FED, Brasage Soldering and CEMEX.