Vitronics Soltec is specialized in the design and manufacturing of mass soldering equipment for the global circuit board assembly market. Products are covering the Reflow, Wave and Selective Soldering markets. Vitronics Soltec is designing and manufacturing equipment in three factories; Camdenton MO USA, Oosterhout in The Netherlands and Suzhou in China. Direct sales and support centers are located in the United States, Holland, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Shanghai. Vitronics Soltec was founded in 1916 and was one of the early pioneers in the field of industrial soldering. Innovations in those early days included the first electrical soldering iron. With the introduction of the circuit board in the fifties, electronics manufacturers needed a more time efficient method of soldering and the first 'Wave Soldering System' was brought to the market. The introduction of mass soldering methods to the emerging electronics industry, laid the foundation for a future of innovative soldering equipment developments that is successfully continued today. Vitronics Soltec, a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc