Zephyrtronics Equipment is Designed, Engineered, and Manufactured in the United States of America.
1994
The "early days" of the company as David Jacks &
Randy Walston lay ground work, engineer, R&D, test &
evaluate & apply for patents on their new, milestone
low temp approach to benchtop soldering & rework.
1995
The Company introduces world’s first stand-alone,
bottom-side preheating system, The AirBath™.
1996
Zephyrtronics awarded the "Vision Award" for Best
New Product of the Year at the San Jose Convention
Center in Silicon Valley. Motorola certifies
the Zephyrtronics equipment and methodology after
extensive laboratory testing and evaluation for the
Famous Iridium Project. Hughes
Aerospace orders 100 AirBaths™ for
its high end production facilities.
1997
SMT Magazine's editorial staff calls Zephyrtronics
one of the three most innovative companies that
year. Boeing Purchases Hundreds of Zephyrtronics AirBaths for the
Int'l Space Station Project (ISS).
1998
U.S. Department of Defense selects Zephyrtronics as
approved supplier.
Boeing tests & approves Zephyrtronics AirBath™
& LowMelt® DeSolder for
SMD removal.
Zephyrtronics aggressively litigates against a
competitor for patent infringement and is
successful. Competitor settles out of court.
1999
National Semiconductor recommends Zephyrtronics
in published paper
for
BGA rework.
Zephyrtronics defends copyright infringement by
competitor who settles for unauthorized commercial
use of technical writings.
2000
Zephyrtronics continues
3-year string as fastest growing soldering
equipment manufacturer on earth. Also:
Introduction of
dispensing product
line.
2001
In Six Sigma Study, Major Aerospace Company Reports Changing to
Zephyrtronics Would Prevent Up to $1 Million Rework Scrap
Per Year Compared To Using A Competitor's
Products.
2002
Our ZT-7-MIL is selected by The JPL Mars Rover
Project for BGA tasks.
2003
International Rectifier recommends
Zephyrtronics
for BGA rework.
2004
After smashing success of the Mars Rovers, NASA
issues 39-page touting Zephyrtronics for making
"mounting & removal of thru-hole and SMT/BGA easier
than routine bench methods"
2005
Zephyrtronics expands its leadership in preheating
with our
MegaGrid™
AirBath.
2006
Introduction of ZeroLead® branded lead-free solder paste and ZeroLead® LowMelt® DeSolder Wire.
both
are RoHS Compliant.
2007
Zephyrtronics launches
e-commerce site for the
convenience of
our global customers.
2008
Zephyrtronics Expands Its International Distribution
With New Partners & Agents in Europe, Asia, Africa,
South America, Australia and Middle East.
2009
Zephyrtronics Again Successfully Defends A Patent
Against Infringement By An Unimaginative & Cheesy
Competitor. And the Patented ZT-7
is Still the #1 BGA & SMD Hot Air Station
on Earth
2010
In the midst of global recession, Zephyrtronics
increases, yet again, its manufacturing operations,
capacity and expands its factory space by over 50%
in Los Angeles, thereby keeping its "Made in the
USA" commitment for all Zephyrtronics equipment.
2011
Zephyrtronics introduces its new highly active
pre-fluxed solder wick and a fluxless solder wick
for PCB de-soldering tasks.
2012
Company Expands Its
Multi-Function & Popular
ABC PCB Cradle Line
2013
Our Patented ZT-6 AirFountain° Approved for Space
Application Connector Soldering Because of
Superiority
Solder Joints Over
Press Fit Connectors
2014
Zephyrtronics, Yet Again, Successfully Legally
Swats the Hell Out of a Violator of One of Its May
Established Trademarks
2015
David Jacks Returns to the Helm of Zephyrtronics
Full Time. Randy Walston Establishes Even Stricter
Quality Standards than Ever Before (Which Were
Already Legendary)
2016-2017
Zephyrtronics Dependable, Original Equipment Tapped
by U.S. Military for Anti-Terrorism Fight Worldwide
Zephyrtronics Original Equipment Also Tapped by
Federal, State & Local Law Enforcement for Critical
Crime Solving Electronic Forensics.
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BEHIND THE SCIENCE™ OF ZEPHYRTRONICS
The Small Engineering Company That Changed the Printed Circuit Board Assembly Workbench Forever!
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The Zephyrtronics Company Profile:
Zephyrtronics is an engineering wholly-owned company the flagship brand of
Jacks' Technologies & Industries Corporation in
Southern California. Zephyrtronics
designs, engineers and globally markets
its technology leading concepts and products targeted primarily for the electronic
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A Synergistic Approach: Preheat &
Low Temp Soldering Equipment, PCB Fixtures, Specialty & Custom
Soldering Accessories
Branded, and
Marketed by Zephyrtronics. |
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In the early 1990's,
Zephyrtronics catapulted to its leadership role in benchtop
soldering with rapid-fire introduction of
its innovative, award-winning and patented products. Zephyrtronics,
for the first time, blended the disparate disciplines of
electronics, metallurgy, thermodynamics, and chemistry with an
uncanny ease -- delighting its expanding customer base.
Twenty years later,
those paradigm-shifting PCB processes first introduced by Zephyrtronics
have long become "industry standards" from Bangor, Maine to
Beijing, China. |
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Zephyrtronics AirBath™ Invention Awarded
'Best New Product'.
1996 Surface Mount Int'l Expo
at San Jose Convention Center Silicon Valley, California |
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A source of
great pride for the company is that our original equipment and products have played key
roles in the production of the International Space Station and the
three highly successful Mars Rovers and have been touted by NASA.
Over the years, both NASA and the Department of Defense have required their
sub-contractors to purchase Zephyrtronics equipment before awarding
them contracts.
From scientists at
atomic accelerators to engineers and technicians in aerospace, the
Zephyrtronics brand is top drawer. What a
Customer Base! Today, Zephyrtronics products are shipped
daily to our customers all over the world from our state of
the art factory
in Los Angeles, California. |
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Cross-Industry
Applications: From such academic notables as Harvard
and Stanford Universities to the prestigious national laboratories
of JPL, NASA, Fermi, Sandia and Lawrence-Livermore; from leaders in the
semiconductor industry as Xilinx, Intel, and National
Semiconductor to the world class aerospace facilities of Hughes,
Raytheon,
Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing; from such commercial giants as
Sony, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Phillips to even the U.S. Armed
Forces...the science of Zephyrtronics became status quo at
electronic benches transcending a dream
of two mission-driven Californian engineers into an American success
story. And transforming how printed circuit board assemblies are
designed and made. |
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Zephyrtronics
at Trade Exposition.
More Than 1,500 Written Inquiries at
a Single Show.
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A Radical Concept! Identifying fundamental
errors in the
approach to benchtop soldering processes by older equipment
makers, the two founders of Zephyrtronics, David Jacks
and Randy Walston, developed the world's first truly
comprehensive approach to PCB benchtops.
Jacks took to the road, traveling around the
globe with a slide show pointing to a troublesome double
standard of how PCB's were made with painstaking quality in high
volume production versus how PCB's were processed, soldered or
reworked on benches. And he single-handedly introduced thermal
profiling to the electronic bench -- a concept first met with
resistance.
With chip miniaturization, multi-layer
substrates and flexible circuits, the traditional high
temp soldering tool methodology caused serious
quality, reliability (costly) problems. |
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Benchtop
Synergy! Developing and packaging
new equipment, and accessories that all complimentary to each other,
Zephyrtronics crossed
over and into traditionally defined "markets" to directly
reach out to electronic technicians. And that "cross over" stirred
up quite a hornet's nest!
Word of mouth
between engineers and technicians of this new benchtop "science"
spread quickly and demand exceeded the company's initial production
capacity. Brand loyalty to Zephyrtronics was something to
behold.
Zephyrtronics consistently
drew the largest crowds at normally staid electronic expositions.
Manufacturing and quality engineers -- hardly folks given to
euphoria -- were tossing their business cards through
the mobs requesting Zephyrtronics
to visit their facilities. |
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Accolades & Industry Recognition
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The
editorial staff of the electronic devices trade journal,
SMT Magazine witnessed the fever Zephyrtronics products were
causing and singled out the young company as one of the "three
most innovative" in 1997 declaring Zephyrtronics
produced a "simpler, safer way to remove and repair
sensitive devices." First at the
Benchtop: Whether it was PCB thermal profiling,
ramping, preheating, post-cooling™, patented single-spot BGA
alignment and reflow, successful use of solder paste at the bench,
or non-contact
desoldering, Zephyrtronics was first at the bench to do
so. |
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So Far Ahead of
the Curve: Two decades later, every significant
soldering equipment manufacturer on earth has been
influenced by and (if possible without patent infringement) have
acknowledged they incorporated
Zephyrtronics' original concepts into their own
products. Of course, this forced them to obsolete entire
product lines they had marketed for years to "keep up" with Zephyrtronics.
And so it is still today where students of
physics and electronics in university labs are employing the
equipment, alloys, processes and PCB techniques pioneered by
Zephyrtronics. |
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"Innovative...simpler, safer way to remove and repair sensitive devices"
-- Editorial Staff
SMT MAGAZINE |
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Zephyrtronics Wins
'Best New Product' at 1996 Surface Mount Int'l Expo in Silicon Valley |
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Zephyrtronics AirBath™
is Featured in
Ray Prasad's 1997 Definitive Text
Surface Mount Technology |
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TM
Zephyrtronics
Signature
Design.
The Patented ZT-2 AirPencil™
at Home in the Smithsonian |
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Our Customers Matter Most.
When it comes to our customers, Zephyrtronics is old fashioned,
which means they matter. Zephyrtronics equipment has the longest
warranties in our industry.
We still have original customers from twenty years ago
with us and we hear over and again how their
original Zephyrtronics equipment is still working after all these
years. Very few, if any, within the soldering industry can say that
today. That customer loyalty is at the very foundation of our
company. |
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Zephyrtronics
ZT-5100 Automatic Dispenser |
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Looking Back Twenty Years Later...
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"I have to laugh at it all now because, in
hindsight, I can tell you that we never gave it a second thought,"
commented Jacks, president of Zephyrtronics. "Fortunately, we were just naive
and foolhardy enough way back then to believe that technicians and
engineers would respond favorably if we gave them better
tools and solutions. And they did far more
than we ever imagined. I never dreamed one day I'd have the honor to stand on
the USS Kitty Hawk flight deck knowing Zephyrtronics gear was used
below." |
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The USS Kitty Hawk
Aircraft Carrier |
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Jacks continues, "Our
opportunity was that key manufacturers of benchtop soldering
equipment were just so satisfied, set in their ways, resisting change
and unaware of emerging technologies. Complacency gave us an opening to change
things in a big way.
"The old giant soldering companies
had no clue how irrelevant their products had
become to current chip
technologies and how their approach to the bench was simply Jurassic...and
then they began copying us." |
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The
Zephyrtronics ZT-7 System
Is Now a Standard at Electronic Benchtops Around the World |
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Recognizing
the reality that the benchtop market, like others, is not only highly
competitive, but also imitative, Jacks and Walston remain nonplussed.
Walston wryly adds, "I guess I should feel somewhat guilty knowing
we inspired so many lousy imitations and how
they can confuse the market a bit, and worse, frustrate
poor technicians who get stuck using them." |
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Still, engineers and techs continue to specifically seek out the Zephyrtronics
brand as they have in the past. Indeed, some of the most
prestigious names in the electronic manufacturing industry
schedule their budgets around upcoming products
that Zephyrtronics has only shown at trade shows and yet to
release. Jacks grins, "naturally, all of this drives our
competition absolutely nuts with envy." |
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The Zephyrtronics ZT-7 Chosen By NASA & JPL
for the
Successful Mars Rover Program. NASA Issued 39-Page
Report Touting the System. |
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With detailed milestone charts for a
host of future new product introductions, Zephyrtronics
still remains dedicated to the same principles that
fueled the company's impressive and rapid growth from
the early days: simplicity through innovation, fanatical
commitment to quality and premium products at affordable
prices. |
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And
adds Jacks, "we give the highest
respect possible for our customers. Even after all these
years of success, we are mindful that we are still just
that little soldering and preheating company from Los
Angeles. But did I tell you we forever changed and
improved the
way PC boards are made in labs and production facilities
around the planet?" |
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©1996 - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017-2018, 2019,
2020 - 2023 by Zephyrtronics®. All rights reserved.
The information, text, images, photographs, charts, graphs you
receive online from Zephyrtronics® are protected by the
copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit
any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, or repurposing of
any copyright-protected material. Zephyrtronics is the
registered trademark property of JTI, Inc. "The Science of
Zephyrtronics" and "Simplicity Through Innovation" and "Zephlux"
and "ZeroLead" and "Zero Balling" and "Zero Residue" and "Post
Cooling" and "Post Cooler" and "AirBath" and "SolderGlide" and
"ZeroTouch" and "SolderMill" and "Just So Superior" are the protected trademark
property of JTI, Inc. "Zephyrtronics" and "Low Melt" and "Air
Fountain" and "Fountainhead" are the registered trademark
properties of JTI Inc. *The above names are the registered
property of their respective owners. |
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