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european semiconductor industry
circuit boards for the electronics industry an average of 2.5 percent growth in their
leading indicator fell in December
worldwide, has filed an insolvency peti- 2007 and 2008 business was attributable
Economic research firm
e-forecasting.com
tion at the local court in Kleve. In June to this trend. The issue that was cited most
reports that the European semiconductor
2006 RUWEL had been taken over by often as the primary driver of this trend
sales leading indicator fell in December
American financial investors who have now was quality concerns. Other key contribu-
by 0.9 percent to a reading of 152.0, after
been severely hit themselves by the global tors were transportation costs, currency
falling 1.1 percent in November. The index
crisis in the financial world. In addition, exchange rates, long supply lines and
was set to average 100 in 2000.
RUWEL’s main sales (58%) are with car communication difficulties. The report, A
“The European semiconductor industry
component suppliers who are currently Reverse Trend in Regional Sourcing in the
leading indicator has fallen the last six
experiencing their worst crisis worldwide. Worldwide Electronic Interconnect Indus-
readings. Based on the lead time of the
At the Geldern plant, which is almost en- try, is available in the members-only area of
indicator, we can conjecture that the in-
tirely specialised in customers from the car IPC’s Web site at
www.ipc.org.
dustry is now in recession and it will last at
components supplying industry, the level
least six more months, more perhaps based
of production capacity utilization has fallen Digi-Key, Measurement specialties
depending of course on future readings.
to below 50%. The Pfullingen plant, which sign distribution agreement
The monthly update takes into account
has a different customer structure mainly Electronic components distributor Digi-Key
adjustments due to annual benchmarking
from the industrial and medical electron- Corporation and Measurement Special-
and annual update of seasonal factors per-
ics sectors, has a 70% capacity utilization. ties, Inc., a global designer of sensors and
formed by official data sources,” said CEO
www.ruwel.com sensor-based systems, have entered into
Maria Simos.
www.e-forecasting.com
an agreement for the worldwide distribu-
tion of Measurement Specialties products,
popular consumer and mobile prod-
including its its force, piezo, position, pres-
ucts fuel MeMs boom
sure, and vibration sensors.
From the gyroscope in your PlayStation
www.digikey.com,
www.meas-spec.com
3 game controller, to the accelerometer
in your iPhone, microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) are making major inroads
in the consumer and mobile electronics
worlds, causing market revenue in this area
to nearly triple from 2006 to 2012, accord-
ing to iSuppli Corp. Global revenue from
shipments of MEMS for consumer and Aqueous Technologies acquires
mobile electronics is expected to rise to
Austin American Technology’s
$2.6 billion in 2012, up from $1.1 billion
MicroJet defluxing systems
in 2006. STMicroelectronics took the lead
Effective immediately, Aqueous Tech-
in the global consumer/mobile MEMS
nologies will assume all marketing, sales,
market in 2008, rising from second place
distribution and new equipment service
to displace the former No. 1 player, Texas
of MicroJet, MicroJet EC, and MicroJet Demonstration of JuKi’s FX-3
Instruments Inc. The company’s share of
FC inline defluxing systems from Austin mounter leaves an impression in
global consumer/mobile MEMS revenue
American Technology. Aqueous Technolo-
russia
rose to 18 percent in 2008, up from 9.7
gies is the exclusive worldwide distributor
Juki Automation Systems AG and their
percent in 2007.
www.isuppli.com
of these products. Under the multi-year
distributor in Russia, Sovtest ATE, recently
exclusive distribution agreement, Austin
installed a new high-speed FX-3 modular
ZesTroN appoints general
American Technology will no longer manu-
mounter in Moscow for INCOTEX Hold-
manager china facture inline defluxing systems for sale to
ing Company, one of the biggest manufac-
ZESTRON promoted John Shen to general the public.
www.aqueoustech.com
turers of electronics in Russia. The new
manager of ZESTRON’s China Corp.
mounter was put into the current techno-
In his new position Mr. Shen will be
ipc survey shows reverse trend in logical line, increasing its capacity by over
focusing on the expansion of ZESTRON’s
regional sourcing 50%. The company also held a demonstra-
position as leading supplier of cleaning so-
Forty-two percent of responding companies tion of the installed FX-3 from September
lutions in China as well as the North Asian
cited changes in their customers’ sourcing 1st – 4th, with more than 25 specialists
region.
www.zestron.com
patterns from Asia back to North America from different companies, including mass
or Europe in the past two years, accord- media representatives, in attendence. High
ruWel gmbh files insolvency
ing to the results of a survey conducted by placement speed together with the “com-
petition IPC—Association Connecting Electronics
pactness” of the machine made a good
RUWEL GmbH, one of the biggest Industries®. Fifty companies responded to
impression on everybody.
European manufacturers of printed the survey. The respondents estimated that
www.sovtest.ru,
www.incotex.com
6 – Global SMT & Packaging – March 2009
www.globalsmt.net
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