Dear Mike, there are so many replacements for HASL today that are in use. few examples are organic coatings, electroless palladium, electroless nickel gold, ect .... ect .... ect .... and the three which i have mentioned have been in use for quite some time ..... try getting a copy of the proceedings of the last ( 1997 ) IPC conference ..... tons of reading in there on HASL replacement. regards, rick fudalewski atotech canada ltd *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe send a message <to: [log in to unmask]> * * with <subject: subscribe/unsubscribe> and no text in the body. * *************************************************************************** * If you are having a problem with the IPC TechNet forum please contact * * Dmitriy Sklyar at 847-509-9700 ext. 311 or email at [log in to unmask] * ***************************************************************************