Newbury Electronics Ltd
About us
Leading UK Manufacturers of high quality printed circuit board (PCBs),
Contract electronic manufacturers (CEM),
Subcontract solder paste screen manufacturing service,
Subcontract conformal coat service,
Box-build,
Rapid Prototyping,
Electronic design engineering,
Mechanical & Industrial design engineering,
Product design / design Discovery & Development,
EMC test Compliance and Approvals.
Products & services
Contract Electronic Manufacturing (CEM)
We have over 1,000 regular clients who trust us to deliver a fast, high-quality PCB assembly service all under one roof, from inception right through to volume assembly. Working with our sister company, PCB Train, we are able to assemble and manufacture both small and medium/high printed circuit board batches using the latest equipment and technology. Our investment in automation has allowed us to offer unparalleled capacity, making us renowned for reacting to clients’ needs faster than any other lean manufacturing organisation in the UK. Find out more and get an instant PCB assembly quote for your low, medium or high volume batch order.
Solder paste stencil laser cutting
We take your data and manufacture laser-cut stainless solder paste stencils in steel shim style. Put our service to the test with our introductory offer of one sample solder paste stencil without charge, cut to your data. Our laser cut solder paste stencil service is suitable for anyone assembling surface-mounted components and needs to screenprint solder paste onto PCBs. This low-cost service offers a fast turnaround and allows you to avoid additional repeated royalty and licence fees by using a non-proprietary Zelflex frame tension system. We’ll edit your stencil data to incorporate tooling holes, frame mounting holes, frame mounting holes, tool numbers, text, fiducials, steps and repeats and more. Each of your solder stencils is then supplied in storage wallets which are secured by Velcro with hooks for hanging storage. We manufacture foil type stencils using either 0.125 or 0.150mm thick stainless steel sheets that are specifically rolled for solder paste screens. Frame mounting holes are cut to suit each client’s individual mounting system requirements. If you are looking for a low-cost foil stencil for a small production run when frame mount holes may not be required, consider our competitively priced one-day delivery express stencil service.
Conformal coating service
Fast-Turnaround Leading Conformal Coating Solutions Together with our sister company PCB Train, we offer a quality, efficient and fast-turnaround sub-contract acrylic conformal coating service, providing the ability for an online quote and order. Our conformal coating service uses the latest 6-axis CNC technology and UV curing to help you extend your PCB’s working life. We offer a wide range of environmentally friendly materials to suit every application and ensure it maintains long-term surface insulation resistance (SIR) levels. Our Conformal Coating Process: Preparation – To ensure the best adhesion, printed circuit boards are first treated to remove any potential contaminants such as dust and oils. Masking – Masking is carried out to stop the unintended coating of components which could affect functionality in the end product. Application – Conformal coating will either be applied by 6-axis CNC spray, or, for extremely low-volumes, by hand, using a brush or spray. Curing – The conformal coating is cured by a precise combination of heat and UV light. Inspection—While conformal coatings are crystal clear in daylight, they are clearly visible when illuminated by UV light, and this is how they are carefully inspected. Our conformal coating process adheres to strict guidelines, starting with the paramount preparation of PCB assemblies for coating. Thus, we pre-treat and clean these before masking and coating to exceed the standards of IPC. The same level of rigour is applied to the entire conformal coating process, from masking and application to curing and inspection.
Electronic Design & Development
Complete Electronic Design Services Newbury Innovation’s electronic designers can turn your boldest design ideas into reality. Whether you’re looking for product design consultancy, PCB design, product manufacture or anything in between, our unparalleled electronic product design services can be tailored to your exact requirements.
Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing
Trusted PCB manufacturers for over 60 years. Newbury Electronics specialises in fabricating high-quality, competitively priced printed circuit boards for a range of clients. Working with our sister company, PCB Train, our PCB fabrication service delivers more different types of printed circuit boards per year than any other UK PCB manufacturer and relies on the talents of many experienced engineers to meet customers’ demands. With over 6 decades in the PCB manufacturing industry, we’re proud to offer huge flexibility over order scales and manufacture everything from PCB prototypes and small-batch PCBs to multi-layer PCBs, flexible PCBs and high-volume orders of more than 10,000. Thanks to our understanding of bare PCB design and fabrication, no order quantity is too small and no turnaround time is too fast. We are also renowned for our low cost, reliable deliveries, high-quality PCBs and excellent technical support and are the only UK PCB fabrication company that uses a completely digital PCB manufacturing process. We have full control over all our production processes, allowing us to rectify any issues, guarantee PCB quality and ensure that we can get your circuit boards to you exactly when you need them. We manufacture both locally in the UK and overseas. Our pre-production, small and medium batch PCBs are manufactured in our UK facility. For large production batches, we supply PCBs manufactured by our carefully selected international partners. However, regardless of where they are manufactured, our entire PCB fabrication process is overseen and managed by Newbury Electronics, so you can trust that only one tooling charge is applied. Once complete, each product is quality checked in the UK and our deliveries are consistently completed on schedule. See our guide below for a complete overview of how PCBs are made at Newbury Electronics.
Mechanical & Industrial Design
Mechanical and Industrial Design From simple enclosures to complex mechanical assemblies. We use Solid works for our 3D CAD mechanical designs. Not only is it a great industrial design tool but it also seamlessly integrates into Altium, accelerating your development and ensuring that when the mechanical first articles and the prototype PCBs come together for the first time that everything simply fits!
Specialist PCB layout / CAD Design
PCB CAD layout service. Do you have a design in hand, a BOM and a schematic but no layout resource in-house? We have dedicated layout resources to help you put together the perfect printed circuit board for your requirements. We provide a range of technical support options, covering everything from simple PCB CAD layout to the electronic design of complex systems. Our multi-skilled teams have years of experience in using high-quality PCB CAD software and will offer comprehensive design advice to ensure that your printed circuit boards come to life in the best way possible. As one of the UK’s most well-respected PCB manufacturers, we have spent over 60 years specialising in all aspects of the printed circuit board design process, offering superior PCB CAD layout, PCB fabrication and PCB assembly services to all our clients. Get your project on track and ready for production, and contact us today.
In-house EMC testing capabilities
EMC testing accelerates our capabilities and reduces overall risk and friction when it comes to compliance and approvals of a product dev. Lc600 Radiated emissions and immunity test cell: 30MHz to 6GHZ with supporting hardware for full radiated immunity testing and radiated emissions testing. Using this in-house test cell facility together with Validation and Verification; such that when a product we develop goes for an external certification test, it passes first time! These resources further allow us to fundamentally reduce risk when in the Compliance phases of product design & development.