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Industry News
saki to acquire Macro science Tech stadium group acquires
using Metcal’s MX-500S system to top the
Saki Corporation, a Japan based leading Fox industries
Industrial Electronics Competition and
provider of automatic optical inspection Stadium Group has acquired Fox Indus-
take home the gold medal as the reigning
machines, has signed a Sale and Purchase tries. Fox, based in Leicester for some 25
champion in this category.
(S&P) Agreement with Schmidt Electronics years, is a niche manufacturer of specialist
www.okinternational.com
Group Limited, an Asia Pacific conglomer- power supplies including EMC filters, in-
ate of advanced electronics and IT technol- verters and converters for military, medical
Dage distributor Blundell makes
ogy, on November 18th, 2008, in Hong and industrial applications. Stadium will
1st x-ray system sale
Kong to acquire a certain percentage of integrate the Fox business into its Peterbor-
Dage Precision Industries, a Nordson
stake in Macro Science Technology GmbH ough company operations by the end of
company, are delighted to announce that
(MSTL). MSTL is a proprietary owner of December this year.
www.fox-industries.co.uk,
within two months of being appointed the
x-ray inspection systems for the inspection
www.stadium-plc.com
UK distributor for Dage X-Ray Systems,
of mechanical and electronic components
Blundell Production Equipment has made
for the electronics SMT industry and the cobar group marks 25th
their first sale, an XD7500 machine. The
general non-destructive testing (NDT)
anniversary
XD7500 machine will be installed into
industry.
www.macroscience-technology.com,
On November 15, 2008, Cobar Europe
contract electronic manufacturer M-TEK
www.sakicorp.com
(Cobar BV) marked the 25th anniversary
Ltd’s Berkshire facility.
www.dage-group.com,
of its founding in Breda, Holland, in 1983.
www.blundell.co.uk
a forgettable year Cobar Europe is part of the Cobar Group,
for memory chip makers which includes Cobar Europe BV in Breda,
Kic appoints etek europe distributor
For memory chip makers, 2008 will go Holland and Cobar Solder Products Inc.
for hungary and romania
down as a year to forget. A major downturn in Londonderry, NH, USA, plus several
KIC formally named Etek Europe Ltd. as
in this segment caused revenue to fall for joint ventures and licensed manufacturing
its distributor in the regions of the Hun-
nearly all suppliers and contributed to partnerships around the world. The Cobar
gary and Romania. Etek Europe has four
negative results for the overall semicon- Group is part of the Balver Zinn family of
divisions of business: new equipment, used
ductor industry, according to preliminary companies.
www.cobar.com,
equipment, spare parts & consumables,
market-share figures from iSuppli Corp.
www.balverzinn.com
and engineering & applications support.
“Global semiconductor revenue is ex-
The company has recently increased its
pected to decline by 2 percent in 2008 due engineer wins gold medal with
engineering and sales departments.
to a 16.9 percent plunge in sales of memory
Metcal soldering & rework system
www.kicthermal.com,
www.etek-europe.com
integrated circuits,” said Dale Ford, senior
vice president, market intelligence services,
esseMTec appoints osTec as
for iSuppli. “Only two out of the Top-29 new distributor for russia
memory IC suppliers, i.e. companies that ESSEMTEC has signed a distribution con-
are expected to earn roughly $100 million tract for Russia with OSTEC Enterprise
or more in 2008, will see their memory IC Ltd. of Moscow, Russia. OSTEC, founded
revenue grow in 2008. For the memory IC in 1991, has offices in Moscow and Kiev
business, 2008 can only be described as and provides countrywide sales, support
disastrous.”
www.isuppli.com and service for its customers. OSTEC of-
fers and supports ESSEMTEC’S complete
siemens reaches insolvency deal
product range from manual to fully auto-
with BenQ Mobile
matic machines for SMD manufacturing.
Siemens AG reached a deal with admin-
www.ostec-smt.ru,
www.essemtec.com
istrators in the case of BenQ Mobile’s OK International has long been driving
insolvency settlement that requires Siemens productivity for its customers, as a young
high-Tech conversions introduces
to pay a gross sum to BenQ Mobile of euro engineer recently found out when the green online portal
300 million in relation to the insolvency of Metcal MX-500S soldering and rework High-Tech Conversions’
friendlygreen.org
the BenQ business in 2006. Munich-based system helped him to gold medal position online portal helps visitors find informa-
Siemens said the net payment to BenQ at the World Skills Competition. Held tion on earth-friendly, green alternatives to
announced Tuesday would be closer to in Japan during 2007, the biennial World industry-standard products. In the months
euro255 million ($324 million) after taking Skills Competition was a demonstration to come,
friendlygreen.org, along with part-
into account Siemens’ creditor claims. of excellence in the field of vocational nering companies, will introduce proven,
Siemens said it had made a sufficient training. Nissan Motor Co. used the op- point-up strategies that will assist in reduc-
provision for the expected charge, and that portunity to showcase the talents of Akira ing daily operational costs and extending
it would not have any negative impact on Shimizu, a young engineer taught to solder lifecycle usage of existing equipment and
operating results for the current 2009 fiscal to an exceptionally high standard within procedures.
www.high-techconversions.com,
year.
w1.siemens.com the company. Akira did not disappoint,
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8 – Global SMT & Packaging – January 2009
www.globalsmt.net
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