Nortec has over 15 years of auto apply experience. In fact, our President, Rick Howe, was an original employee of Hover-Davis in the early ‘90’s. His successes there include a US Patent for the label feeding technology currently sold by Hover-Davis, 10 years of engineering and engineering management experience, 5 years of sales management experience, and most of his career was spent in senior management. As President of Nortec, Inc, Rick brings a deep and personal relationship with Hover-Davis to Nortec’s Total Product Identification Management philosophy. Nortec is now uniquely positioned to provide state of the art auto apply solutions to our PCBA manufacturing customers.

Hover-Davis has become a world-class provider of feeding solutions for components packaged in tape and/or tray, labels, and die from wafer. Hover-Davis products are integrated with most major SMT pick and place machines including Fuji, Panasonic, Universal Instruments, Siemens, Juki, and Assembleon.