Good Morning to all, We manufacture various circuits with electroplated wire bondable gold. As the final operation before packaging and shipping we plasma clean. Our customer is under the impression that the gold can contaminate during shipping and storage. My question is do other suppliers do special nitrogen/vacuum packaging of product like this to prevent this or is this something that should not be happening. Thanks in advance. Steve Kelly Steve Kelly PH: (416) 750-8433 FAX: (416) 750-0016 CELL: (416) 577-8433 --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------