Released on = November 22, 2005, 1:58 pm

Press Release Author = Joanna Laznicka

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = FREMONT, CA - Owens Design Inc., a company providing turnkey
product development outsourcing services, announced today that it has partnered with
Questar Products International, Inc. to develop a product line of automatic wire
bonders built on Kulicke and Soffa's T former Hybrid bonder platforms.

Press Release Body = These cost-effective machines include such capabilities as Fine
Pitch, Large Table Travel, and Ball Bumping, as well as Very User Friendly,
Customizable Software. The key benefit to the end user is a very high performance
to price ratio. The Questar Q2100 series bonders are designed for a broad range of
complex devices, and compete very favorably with any other machine in their target
market.

John Apgar, President of Owens Design stated, "Our customer challenged us to come up
with a cost effective design, replacing and upgrading older technology components,
solving difficult electronics layout challenges, while packaging the system and all
electronics in a very small footprint, and conforming to all SEMI and CE standards."

Questar Products chose Owens Design due to its long history in solving problems in
complex electronics packaging and being able to design, prototype and continue to
build ongoing machines in production volumes at prices that match or are below their
own internal cost. Dennis Scott, President of Questar Products said, "As a small
company focused solely on delivering high quality wire bonding equipment at
aggressive prices, we must partner with companies that can deliver on our customers
high expectations. The fact that they could do both the design and the assembly
made Owens an obvious choice."

Since 1982 Owens Design has designed and produced custom machines and modules for
the semiconductor, hard disk, biotech and other emerging high tech industries and
has served customers such as Ultratech, Thermawave, KLA-Tencor, Asyst, Aclara
Biosciences, Lifescan, Teradyne, Credence, Mattson, Novellus and many others.

Questar Products International, Inc. is a manufacturing services company
specializing in semiconductor assembly. Since 1984, Questar has been providing
quality equipment and manufacturing expertise to companies needing new or expanded
assembly capability, both domestically and internationally.
For more information please visit - Owens Design, www.owensdesign.com or Questar
Products International, www.questarinc.com


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Contact Details = www.owensdesign.com