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Superball project: Creating a French solder ball industry <\/h2>\n
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Superballs are a new market opportunity for HEF, the only company in Europe and in France that has this expertise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Superballs enable higher quality for everyday devices<\/strong> including computers and cell phones, as well as position sensors and accelerometers, by doubling their service life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With their innovative design, Superballs offer increased resistance to mechanical stress<\/strong>, thus reducing the risk of premature failure.<\/p>\n

This \u20ac800,000 innovation was the result of a joint project <\/strong>involving the IREIS R&D center, Thales, Nicomatic, and the Georges Friedel Laboratory at the \u00c9cole des Mines de Saint-\u00c9tienne. This project won the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Region’s R&D Booster call for projects<\/strong>, in recognition of the project’s innovative nature and its potential for stimulating research and development in the region.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Learn more<\/a>\n <\/div>\n

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IREIS, HEF’s research and development center, has launched a unique technology to improve the quality of the interconnection balls used for soldering in all electronic components. These are hollow-core balls and they are called superballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-9660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group","tag-innovation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSuperballs: A technological revolution from HEF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Superballs improve the durability of electronic devices. 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