Featured Locations.
API has a number of state-of-the art engineering and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Learn more about some of our featured locations and the capabilities they offer.
- Windber, Pennsylvania
- Ronkonkoma, New York
- Kanata, ON, Canada
- Gloucester, UK
Windber, Pennsylvania
The company-owned flagship facility is a 110,000 square foot building located on a 10 acre site near Johnstown, PA. The state-of-the art, ISO 9001:2008-certified facility features 80,000 square feet of manufacturing space with a skilled staff of over 240 employees.
At this facility, the company offers a diverse set of Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) with full turnkey capabilities, ranging from prototyping to high-volume production and System Integration with a specialty in 100 percent surface mount technology assembly. (Specialized surface mount placement equipment offers a total placement capacity of 250,000 components per hour.) The company also designs and manufactures mixed technology and hybrid design PC boards, including single or double sided, multi-layer circuit boards, fiberglass resin, polyester, flexible or ceramic. A full, through-hole assembly line is available for both low and high-volume production. The facility is customer qualified under IPC-A-610B and J-STD-001 Workmanship Standards.
Featured capabilities include:
- Manufacturing Services
- Small, medium and large package electrical/mechanical assembly
- Cable and wire harness manufacturing
- Electrical and mechanical troubleshooting
- Design Services
- Research and development
- Engineering services
- Design services (from concept to completion)
- Prototyping services
- Drafting services
- Cost reduction analysis
- FEA/FEM analysis
Support Areas
- Secure room facilities
- Clean room facilities
- Materials laboratory
- Machine shop with CNC capability
- Spray paint booth
- Cold spray technology
- Composite shop
- Synthesizer lab
Circuit Card Manufacturing
- Printed circuit board design
- Circuit card assembly
- X-ray testing
- Conformal coating / AR, UR and SR
- Mirae pick and place machinery
- Selective Soldring
- Packaging solutions
- IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 soldering capabilities
- Thermal and vibration testing
- In circuit test
- Flying probe test
Dedicated to providing the highest standards of quality and reliability, API continually invests in training and certification for its team members, as well as the most leading edge SMT technology, including:
- X-Ray and Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)
- BGA and Micro-BGA assembly and rework
- PBGA, TBGA, CBGA, CCGA
- Boards as large as 24” x 20”, 29 layers
- BGAs as large as 3” x 3:
- Pitch: 1.27mm, 1.00mm, 0.80mm, 0.50mm
- Board materials: FR-4, Termount, Arlon
The abundant floor space can be specifically tailored to meet a wide variety of manufacturing, project, process, research and individual customers’ needs. Additionally, the facility can accommodate a wide variety of special assembly requirements, such as system integrated turnkey assembly, mechanical assembly, cable assembly and testing of all electrical assemblies.
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Ronkonkoma, New York
Located in the heart of New York metro area, the ISO9001/2000 and AS9100 certified facility is conveniently located adjacent to Islip's McArthur Airport. The facility specializes in turnkey QML thick and thin film hybrid manufacturing (IAW MIL-PRF-38534). A highly skilled staff of Engineers, Technicians and Assemblers leverage state-of-the-art systems to design and manufacture a wide range of components, subsystems and turnkey solutions for the commercial, military, aerospace, space industries and other Hi-Rel applications.
Featured capabilities include:
- Full in-house design, development and prototype capability
- Electrical design
- Mechanical design
- Software design
- Thick film print
- Au and Al automatic and manual wirebond
- Adhesive (automatic and manual), eutectic and solder reflow die attach
- Seam weld, solder and compression hermetic sealing
- Active and passive laser trim
- Full screening IAW MIL-STD-883, including:
- Bond pull and die shear strength testing
- Constant acceleration
- Temperature cycling
- Burn-in
- Fine and gross hermeticity testing
- Electrical test across the full MIL temp range (-55c to +125c)
- Visual and mechanical inspections
- Real time X-ray
Kanata, ON, Canada
The 30,000 square foot facility is home to the company's power and magnetics center of excellence, as well as Canadian Emanation Security / TEMPEST operations.
The facility is fully equipped to carry out all phases of manufacturing and testing for an extensive range of power conversion equipment, including DC to DC converters, DC to AC inverters, ff-Line Switch Mode power supplies and Linear power supplies. A team of experienced and rigorously trained engineers operates a variety of specialized equipment, including:
- Winding equipment, including: multi-axis computer controlled winders, stick winders, multiple-bobbin, fly, shuttle-type toroidal, long and short stroke hook and several types of high speed manual winders
- Automatic taping machines
- Semi-automatic solder dipping equipment, wave solder pots and hand soldering stations
- Automatic solder dipping equipment under ultra pure nitrogen
- Automatic laminating machines
- Diamond wheel ferrite core gapping equipment
- Epoxy and polyurethane mixing and dispensing machines
- Vacuum impregnation and outgassing equipment
- Curing ovens
- Varnish tanks and baking ovens
- Automatic wire and foil processing equipment
- Bandsaws and sheet metal fabrication equipment
- Air tools
- Offset and other types of printing machines
- Computer-controlled automatic test equipment (ATE)
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TEMPEST capabilities include:
- Team of specially certified experts
- Four testing chambers
- State-of-the-art training room
- ESD controlled manufacturing floor
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Gloucester, UK
The company’s custom-built European facility, owned and operated by subsidiary Secure Systems & Technologies, Ltd (SST), is the only TEMPEST testing facility of its kind in Europe. A CESG-accredited TEMPEST test house, the 22,000 square foot facility boasts five TEMPEST test cells and is staffed by highly qualified, Level Four accredited testers.
Featured capabilities include:
- TEMPEST certification testing to NATO SDIP-27 Levels A, B and C (AMSG720B, AMSG788A and AMSG784B)
- TEMPEST Production Assurance Testing (TPAT) to NATO SDIP-27 Levels A, B and C (AMSG720B, AMSG788A and AMSG784B)
- EMC testing to MIL-STD-461 and DEF STAN 59-41
- Endorsement to NATO standards through CESG
- TEMPEST/EMC design and consultancy services
- Guidance on installation
- Military platform testing
- On-site evaluations and investigations