Rigid Aluminium And Flex Boards Built And Assembled Under One Roof
PEAK PCB LIMITED fabricates rigid FR4 from 1 to 16 layers, aluminium metal core boards for heat-generating circuits and flexible circuits on PI, PET and FR4, then assembles any of them in the same plant. One supplier, one set of tolerances, one party responsible for the finished board.
- 1 to 16 layers
- 0.075 mm trace and space
- 450 x 660 mm max panel
- ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · UL
- 21 catalogue boards
Four Board Families From One Shenzhen Plant
Rigid FR4, aluminium metal core, flexible circuits and finished assemblies. Each family has its own published capability table, and the tolerances in them are the numbers we build to.
Every Board In The Production Catalogue
Twenty-one boards, photographed as they were built. Six rigid FR4 builds from two to twelve layers, three aluminium boards, three flexible circuits and nine assemblies.
Double Sided FR4 Board With Lead Free HASL
Four Layer Immersion Gold Board For Dense SMD Routing
Six Layer Board With Lead Free HASL For Larger Controllers
Eight Layer Board With Electroplated Gold For Contact Surfaces
Ten Layer Immersion Gold Board For High Density Digital Designs
Twelve Layer Immersion Gold Board With Edge Connector Fingers
Single Sided Aluminium Board With OSP For Motor And Driver Circuits
Single Sided Aluminium LED Bar With OSP Finish
Double Sided Aluminium Board For Round Driver Modules
Single Layer Flex Circuit With Branched Arms And ZIF Tail
Single Layer Flex Ribbon With Parallel Conductors And End Stiffeners
Double Layer Flex Circuit With Exposed Gold Contact Pads
Assembled Interface Board With Serial Ethernet And Edge Connector
Assembled Embedded Controller With Microcontroller Ethernet And Storage
Assembled Motherboard With Expansion Slot And Rear Port Cluster
Assembled Power Converter With Toroidal Inductor And LED Output Board
Assembled Industrial IO Board With Relay Bank And Pluggable Terminals
Assembled Compact Control Board With Connector Bank And Shielded Areas
Assembled Multi Port Board With USB Card Slot And Shielded Modules
Assembled Flexible Circuit With Wound Antenna Coil
Assembled Rigid Flex Unit Linking A Connector Board To A Flex Tail
Five Industries The Boards Go Into
The legacy catalogue records industrial control, telecommunication, medical, automotive and computing as the fields these boards are applied to. Each has a different failure mode to design against.
Industrial Control
Boards For Machines That Run Continuously
IndustryTelecommunication
Dense Digital Boards With Controlled Return Paths
IndustryMedical Devices
Boards Where Traceability Matters As Much As Performance
IndustryAutomotive Electronics
Boards Built For Heat Vibration And Long Service Life
IndustryComputing And Embedded
High Layer Count Boards For Processor Based Designs
Four Things That Go Wrong And What Stops Them
None of these are exotic. They are the four ways a board order actually fails, and each one traces back to a decision made before the panel was cut.
Bare boards from one vendor, assembly from another
When a joint fails, the fabricator says the board met specification and the assembler says it was not solderable. We fabricate and assemble in the same plant, so there is nobody to hand the problem to.
A circuit that works on the bench and derates in the housing
FR4 insulates. Our aluminium laminate is measured at 1 °C/W thermal resistance with a 125 °C maximum working temperature, so the board itself carries heat into the chassis.
Hand-built wiring that differs on every unit
A flexible circuit is etched, so every conductor is in the same place on every unit. Our flex line holds 0.05 mm track and gap with a ±0.05 mm outline tolerance.
Boards that will not drop into the enclosure
Outline dimension tolerance is ±0.10 mm and hole position is ±0.05 mm, verified before the board leaves the plant.
Capability Stated As Numbers Not Adjectives
Every figure below is published in our capacity tables and can be checked against your design before you place an order.
- Three surface finishes run in house. Lead-free HASL, immersion gold and electroplated gold, chosen for the board rather than inherited from a default.
- Equipment from four countries. Film plotting, drilling and lamination on machines sourced from the USA, Japan, Germany and Israel.
- Over 10,000 square feet. Fabrication and assembly on one site in Xinhe Industrial Park, Fuyong.
- Tested before shipping. Open and short testing at 50 to 300 V, hole resistance below 300 ohms, isolation resistance above 1012 ohms.
- 94V-0 laminate. Self-extinguishing rating on both the rigid and aluminium ranges.
- ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and UL. Certifications recorded by the company. Current certificate details are available on request.
From Your Gerber Files To A Tested Board
Four stages, all on one site. Nothing leaves the plant between fabrication and assembly.
Data check
Your Gerber or ODB++ package is checked against our published capability before tooling.
Fabrication
Imaging, drilling, plating, mask and finish on equipment sourced from the USA, Japan, Germany and Israel.
Electrical test
Open and short testing at 50 to 300 V, hole resistance below 300 ohms.
Assembly
Surface mount, through-hole and hand-fitted parts on rigid, aluminium or flexible substrates.
Four Ways Customers Buy From Us
Fast turn prototyping, design support, turnkey assembly and one stop supply. The company has offered all four since it started.
Fast Turn Prototyping
Get The First Boards Back Before The Design Goes Cold
SolutionPCB Design Support
Design Review Against Real Process Limits
SolutionTurnkey PCBA Assembly
Bare Board And Assembly Quoted As One Finished Unit
SolutionOne Stop Supply
One Supplier For Rigid Aluminium Flex And Assembly
Four Boards And What Each One Had To Solve
These describe boards that exist in the production catalogue. Customer names, volumes and dates are confidential and are not published.
An industrial control board carrying a fine pitch processor, an array of board-to-board connector footprints and a BGA site, built on four layers with...
A single sided aluminium-based board in a long strip format, populated with LED footprints and finished with OSP, intended to be clamped into a metal ...
A single layer polyimide flexible circuit with a long main run, two branched arms and a stiffened ZIF tail, built to replace a hand-assembled multi-wi...
An assembled industrial input and output board carrying a bank of relays and two rows of pluggable screw terminal blocks, fabricated and assembled in ...
What The Plant Actually Holds
The company records ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996 and UL certification, a site of over 10,000 square feet in Xinhe Industrial Park, and production equipment sourced from the USA, Japan, Germany and Israel.
The full equipment list runs to twenty-seven process stations, from film plotting through to packing. It is published in full rather than summarised, so you can see which processes are in house and which are not.
Engineering Guides For Buyers And Designers
Eight guides covering layer count, surface finishes, thermal management, flex design and what to send with an enquiry.
Layer count is the single decision that most affects the price and the electrical behaviour of a board. This guide sets out when t...
Three surface finishes cover almost every board we build. Choosing between them is not a quality decision, it is a fitness decisio...
When a board runs hot the usual fixes are a bigger heatsink or a bigger enclosure. A metal core board attacks the problem earlier ...
Flexible circuits fail in ways rigid boards do not: creases in the wrong place, copper fatigue at a fold, tails that buckle in a c...
Questions Buyers Ask First
What does PEAK PCB actually manufacture?
Rigid FR4 boards from 1 to 16 layers, aluminium metal core boards from 0.3 to 3.0 mm thick, flexible circuits on PI, PET and FR4, and assembled PCBA on any of those three substrates. All four families are made in the same Shenzhen plant.
Where is the factory?
Xinhe Industrial Park, Fuyong, Bao'an, Shenzhen, China. The site covers over 10,000 square feet. The marketing office is at CuiJingJu A1 Building in Xixiang, Bao'an.
How long has the company been operating?
Since 2000.
What is your minimum trace width and space?
0.075 mm, which is 3 mil, on rigid FR4 inner and outer layers. Flexible circuits go to 0.05 mm and aluminium boards are 0.15 mm.
What certifications do you hold?
The company records ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996 and UL certification. Current revision years and certificate numbers are available on request.
Do you supply bare boards only or assembled boards as well?
Both. Assembly is one of the four product families and runs on boards fabricated in the same plant.
How do I get a quote?
Email your Gerber RS-274X and NC drill files, or an ODB++ package, to [email protected] with the layer count, board thickness, copper weight, surface finish and quantity.
Send Us Your Files And We Will Check Them Against Our Capability
Gerber RS-274X with an NC drill file, or an ODB++ package. Tell us the layer count, thickness, copper weight, surface finish and quantity, and we will confirm what the plant can hold before anything is tooled.