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Hawk Electronics purchased a Speedprint
Technology SP210avi stencil printer.
IBM cut 190 jobs from its server
manufacturing line in Ireland and moved
operations to China.
IEC Electronics appointed Jeffrey
Schlarbaum president and Donald Doody
as executive VP.
IMI acquired PSi Technologies.
Incap closed its Vuokatti, Finland, factory
and centralized its European electronics
manufacturing in Estonia.
Innocore Gaming was acquired by
Advantech for £3.3m and re-named
Advantech-Innocore.
Jabil expanded its workforce in
Tiszaújváros, Hungary, to 7,500.
JJS Electronics received AS9100
certification for its manufacturing sites in
Lutterworth, UK, and Chomutov, Czech
Republic.
Kingfield Electronics celebrated 25 years
of contract manufacturing services.
Kitron Microelectronics:
• Jönköping, Sweden, received orders
for complex mechatronics products
containing motion mechanics and
electronics valued at NOK 20 million
per year.
• secured NOK 34 million (EUR 4.2 million)
manufacturing order from Saab
Dynamics for complex control systems
for missile control.
Melecs hired 200 workers from Lite-On’s
closed Gyor, Hungary facility.
NBS installed Juki Automation Systems
RFID-based intelligent feeder and
materials management system in Santa
Clara, California.
PartnerTech:
• split operations into two areas of expertise:
Systems Integration & Enclosures
and Electronics.
• appointed Peter Nilsson executive VP
of operations for electronics and Dan
Turecek exectutive VP of operations
for systems integration and enclosures.
Plexus
• named Steve Frisch its EMEA regional
president.
• will begin construction on 160,000-
215,000 SF manufacturing facility in
Oradea, Romania, in 2011.
Probe Manufacturing secured $475,000
medical device manufacturing contract.
Rimaster AB opened a customer service
office in Belgium to serve Germany, France
and the Benelux markets.
Robat UK appointed Sean Eley sales
director.
Saline Lectronics purchased a FX-3 XL
chip shooter from Juki.
Sanmina-SCI division Viking Modular
Solutions’ Foothill Ranch, California,
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facility earned AS9100 Aerospace
certification.
Scanfil EMS Group merged with Ojala-
Yhtyma.
Selteka invested in Momentum paste
printer from MPM Speedline.
Seprolec:
• moved into the business park ‘Les
Neuvillières’ in Vire, France.
• purchased new Viscom AOI inspection
S3088-II.
Shinsei Denshi established a PCBA factory
in Cikarang, West Java.
SMS (Woburn, MA) ended operations.
SMT-ASSY Electronique added a desktop
AOI system from MIRTEC.
SMTC
• achieved ISO 13485 certification at its
San Jose, Toronto and Mexico facilities.
• added 5DX x-ray, AOI and flexible
SMD placement equipment in San
Jose, California.
Spinner GmbH reorganized and changed
its name to WiRan Sp. z o. o. and became
independent.
Stellar Manufacturing relocated from
North Andover, Massachusetts, to
Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Syrma Technology added 20,000 SF and
200 jobs in Tamil Nadu, India.
Uni-source Assembly is building a $1.2
million plant in Amery, Wisconsin.
Victron added full suite of services from
PCBA to system assembly and order
fulfillment logistics in Rosarito, Mexico.
Wistron will hire 1,000 workers for
newly expanded Brno, Czech Republic,
operations.
YAMAHA installed an entire SMT
assembling line from screen printing to
final inspection at its Hamamatsu plant.
ZyXEL Communications will spin off its
ODM business unit as an independent
company, Mitrastar Technology on January
1, 2011.
Materials & process equipment
Total “cumulative” installations of direct
imaging (maskless) systems may top 800-
850 units by year end 2010.—Dr. Hayao
Nakahara
Global market for SMT equipment will
exceed US$5.5 billion by 2015.—Global
Industry Analysts
Adeka began mass production of its
cerium-free etchants.
APS Novastar introduced SMTrue smart
feeders for its vision-based automated pick
& place machines.
Arlon introduced MultiClad HF halogenfree,
low-loss multilayerable thermoset
laminate and prepreg for microwave and
Holiday wishes for a “normal” 2011
high-frequency PCBs.
Corning received a FlexTech Alliance grant
to develop commercially viable methods
for continuous production of printed
electronics on flexible glass substrates.
DEK and Irisys developed a robust,
fine-pitch, isotropic conductive adhesive
interconnection process.
Dow Chemical chairman and CEO
Andrew Liveris was named president
of International Council of Chemical
Associations.
Dow Electronic Materials is building a
new manufacturing site in Zhangjiagang,
China to expand capacity for its PCB,
electronic and industrial finishing, and
photovoltaic markets.
Endicott Interconnect Technologies
introduced new LCP laminates.
Furukawa Electric developed solderable
aluminum wire.
GE Healthcare acquired Orbotech’s
medical solutions business.
Hary Manufacturing acquired AMI
Precision’s screen printers and automatic
printing systems assets.
Henkel is expanding adhesive production
in Central and Eastern Europe and
investing EUR 14.7 million in a new
production facility in Tatabánya, Hungary.
Hover-Davis appointed Lance Dumigan
business development manager.
Indium named Karthik Vijayamadhavan
technical manager in Europe and Todd
Ellenor metallurgical process engineering
manager.
IPTE began shipping MaxPan4 PCB
panelization machines.
Isola Group celebrated its 50th IPC
membership anniversary.
Iteq plans will build new production base
in Xiantao City in Hubei, China.
MacDermid implemented a metal
surcharge on selected products in the
Greater China Region.
Maskless Lithography named Hakuto its
exclusive Asian distributor.
Milara named Technica, U.S.A., its
representative for the West Coast and
Colorado.
MIRTEC appointed Techmet as its
exclusive distributor for South Africa.
MPK Kemmer PCB Tools named Global
Technology its exclusive representative in
Italy.
Nihon Superior merged its existing
technology center with its newly opened
R&D center in Osaka, Japan.
Nordson:
• acquired Micromedics.
• promoted Greg Wood to VP of its
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