New Range of BGA Heatsinks Launched

ABL has recently launched a brand new suite of BGA heatsinks to complement its comprehensive product range. ABL has over 35 years experience in supplying the heatsink market with a range of different products - from simple board mounted heatsinks to some of the best high dissipation heatsinks in the world.

 

Customer demand for a local supplier of BGA (board grid array) heatsinks has encouraged ABL to now provide a full range of BGA devices - Flip Chip, Push Pin and Standard BGA. These come in with a choice of mounting options: tape and / or mechanical attachment.

 

Additionally these BGA heatsinks can be purchased in small lot quantities and are available from stock - typically on a 3 day turnaround. Why not click onto our BGA page to obtain more information?

 

 

ABL has invested substantially in its automated anodising facilities

Increased anodising capacity and anodising capability has been created as a result of this activity.
Remember that ABL is able to anodise a full range of components or parts - from 10mm long to 2.7 metres. We offer anodising in natural / silver (AA) grades, as well as black anodising and gold anodising.
We are happy to offer this service on customer‘s own parts (free issue) or to also anodise components where customers ask us to source the raw material as well.
Click here for more information about ABL‘s anodising capability. Click here to contact us about anodising.

 

Machining

ABL has increased the capability of the Mecal and can now machine aluminium extrusions up to 14,000mm long!!
ABL designs its own tools to ensure excellent quality components are produced to tight tolerances from aluminium extrusions, castings or sheet. This ensures that we keep set-up prices as low as possible which is particularly important for new products or projects, low quantity parts and product development or prototyping.
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Designer Radiators

ABL also manufactures products for Eskimo Radiators; the UK‘s leading supplier of designer radiators.
Eskimo are radiator designers whose mission is to save the world from the ugliness and impracticality of other people‘s radiators. They create bespoke, contemporary heating to suit any modern or eclectic interior. Offering both gas and electric models, they sketch convection currents and infra-red waves as often as they sketch the physical lines of a new design, brimming with beauty.
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ABL Buys Sunday Lunch

 Following two recent visits by Managing Director, Stephen Richardson, ABL is now helping to support Wobulenzi Town Academy (WTA), a secondary school in Uganda. The school was set up about 7 years ago as a refuge for children fleeing the war in Northern Uganda between the Government of President Museveni and a rebel group called, inappropriately, the Lords Resistance Army or "LRA".  The LRA abducted as many as, an un-believable, 20,000 children and forced them to become child soldiers, some of these children that survived or escaped are now pupils at the school.

 

The school has been completely re-built by a charity called, Serve Direct, and aims to provide quality education and nutrition at an affordable price.  There is virtually no state funded secondary education in Uganda and as a result, most children cannot afford to go to school.  In our terms school fees are very cheap, about £50 per year for a day scholar and £110 per year for a boarder, but these prices are totally un-affordable for most Ugandans. Getting an education gives the children a real chance to improve their lives and the lives of their families so attending school is seen as a real privilege.

 

On his last visit, Stephen was shocked at the repetitive and boring nature of the school diet, a very dry maize porridge called posho and beans, rather like kidney beans, for every meal.  Yes, every meal twice a day for seven days a week.  But this diet is the cheapest way to fill up 600 hungry teenagers.  Following a discussion with the Headmaster, Charles Opio, it was agreed that it would be a good idea to offer a more interesting Sunday lunch, including meat!, after the school's weekly church service.  Uganda is a very Christian country and this service is attended by virtually all the students.

 

So since April, Sunday lunch has been funded by ABL, it is amazing that £125 per week will provide lunch for around 600 people and makes Sunday a really special day.

 

Following on from this initiative and in an attempt to reduce food costs for the school in a sustainable way, ABL is now looking at funding a grain store so that maize can be bought at harvest time when the prices are lower and a maize mill so the children can mill their own flour.

 

We will keep you posted.

 

If you want to learn more about Wobulenzi Town Academy, please visit the Serve Direct website at http://www.servedirect.org/web .