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President of Sonobond Ultrasonics receives UIA lifetime honorary membership

THE board of directors of the Ultrasonic Industry Association (UIA) in 2019 received and reluctantly accepted the resignation of board member Janet Devine. Ms Devine served as president of the UIA from 1997 to 1999. She also held the position of vice president and was board secretary for many years. In recognition of her long-time service to the UIA and her significant contributions to the ultrasonics industry, the board has awarded her with lifetime honorary membership of the UIA. 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 strong multinational technical association dedicated to expanding technology research and manufacturing applications. Ultrasonics is now a significant assembly method for manufacturing medical, scientific and commercial devices. Ms Devine’s impact on the ultrasonics industry goes beyond her efforts for the UIA. She was born and educated in the UK and graduated from Imperial College of the University of London with a BSc degree in mathematics and physics. After moving to the USA in 1959, she joined 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 was a key member of the team that developed and patented the Wedge-Reed System, specifically created for ultrasonic metal welding.

In 1990, she was named president of Sonobond Inc – a position she still holds – when it was rare for a woman to head a technology company. She has been awarded multiple patents and has also authored numerous papers in the field of ultrasonic metal welding, textile bonding and ultrasonic processing. Ultrasonic Industry Association www.ultrasonics.org ▲ ▲ Janet Devine accepts the glass plaque commemorating her honorary membership from UIA president Dominick DeAngelis

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