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Sonobond Ultrasonics president receives lifetime honorary membership in UIA
- December 23, 2019
- News Release
- Shop Management
The Ultrasonic Industry Association (UIA) has awarded Janet Devine, president of Sonobond Ultrasonics, West Chester, Pa., with a lifetime honorary membership in recognition of her longtime service to the UIA and her significant contributions to the ultrasonics industry.
Devine resigned from the UIA board of directors in 2019, having served as board secretary, vice president, and as president from 1997 to 1999. She is credited with playing a large role in building the UIA from its roots as a loose alliance of domestic industrial high-power ultrasonic manufacturers into a multinational technical association dedicated to expanding technology research and manufacturing applications.
Devine began her career at the predecessor company to Sonobond Inc., which was working on the then nascent concept of using ultrasonic energy for metal welding. She served as the company’s vice president and technical director and a key member of the team that developed and patented the Wedge-Reed System, specifically created for ultrasonic metal welding. She has been an active participant in the development of many of the most significant commercial, medical, and industrial systems and applications for ultrasonic metal welding and ultrasonic bonding of nonwovens and synthetic materials, many of which are employed to this day.
In 1990 she took her current position as president of Sonobond Inc. She has been awarded multiple patents and has authored numerous papers on ultrasonic metal welding, textile bonding, and ultrasonic processing.
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