For over 40 years Platronics Seals has been manufacturing high-quality, low-cost hermetic packages for the semiconductor, aerospace, automotive and telecommunications industries.
A team-approach environment provides for the highest standards of customer satisfaction and product reliability.
Our new production facility has allowed us to increase the capacity and efficiency of our plating line which includes rack and barrel plating of electrolytic and electroless nickel, gold, copper, tin and tin-lead.
We maintain inventories of component parts, which, along with our in-house plating, allow us to manufacture and ship many products promptly.
The Platronics Engineering Design Team has years of experience working with customers to develop custom-designed products to meet their demanding requirements.
Platronics Seals is a privately held company founded in March 1966 Clifton, New Jersey. In the spring of 2008 we relocated our production facility to a newer, larger 30,000 square foot building in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
As a result of this relocation we have been able to initiate many changes, including:
- Improvements to the work-flow in the assembly area which will provide enhanced quality control and efficiency.
- More efficient use of floor space.
- Separation of the assembly area from the rest of the production area allowing greater contamination control and employee comfort.
- The opportunity to overhaul and clean critical equipment prior to reinstallation which will provide improved reliability.
- Installation of a large liquid nitrogen tank for increased production capability.
Our new facility also allows us to:
- Maintain our tradition of the lowest possible production costs for our customers.
- Respond more efficiently to the changing requirements of our customers in the future.
- Rapidly develop new components.
- Readily access ground transportation for shipments of orders.
Our facility includes an assembly area, 6 production sealing furnaces, 2 production muffle furnaces, plating lines, QC/QA labs, a machine shop, and shipping/receiving/warehouse areas. We serve the semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, and telecommunications industries.
Our primary product lines are hermetic glass-to-metal and ceramic seals. We manufacture both custom and industry standard hermetic packages. Those packages include TO-250 series packages, TO-3s, TO-5s, TO-8s and other TO- and DO- packages, flat-packs, DIP and SIP style headers, terminals and feed-throughs. Products are manufactured utilizing a variety of materials; primarily copper, steel, Kovar, 52-alloy, copper tungsten, GLIDCOP®, molybdenum, various glasses, and ceramics.
These products have many high technology applications such as:
- Power hybrid packages;
- Packages for integrated circuits, hybrid circuits, and discrete transistors;
- Seals for the automotive industry;
- Laser diode packages for fiber optic communications; and
- Feed-throughs for microwave components.
These diverse applications demand products that meet stringent electrical, environmental and mechanical specifications. To insure quality products, Platronics Seals provides engineering expertise and quality support to the manufacturing operation.
To further assure the highest quality, we plate our own parts; thus providing superior quality and cost savings to our customers and reducing turn-around time for delivery of standard and custom parts. We have a well-equipped QC/QA lab, enabling us to meet the requirements of all appropriate applicable specifications. Our on-line SPC system enables us to maintain manufacturing processes within required parameters. This balanced team effort helps satisfy our customers, who are secure in the knowledge that Platronics Seals delivers quality parts on time.
Platronics Seals can provide prototype quantities, increase production to a high volume, and maintain quality levels consistent with our engineering evaluation samples.
Our facility includes almost 30,000 square feet of modern manufacturing space. An on-site machine shop insures rapid turn-around on critical orders. Utilizing the latest equipment, the manufacturing management staff supports a highly trained and dedicated work force.
We run our operation in a safe and environmentally conscientious manner; conforming to all existing government regulations. In addition, our state-of-the-art plating line was designed as a zero-discharge system.
Since end users of our components may employ different manufacturing processes, we recommend interaction between your organization and the Platronics Seals Engineering Group to assure that your specific product requirements are met.
The strength of Platronics Seals lies in our ability to produce high volumes of components with reproducible technical properties. This is accomplished by assuring the quality of incoming component parts; implementing effective statistical process control procedures; monitoring in-process quality; inspecting and testing outgoing products; and, ensuring effective communication between engineering and floor supervision.