Brighter light at the end of tunnel
Plating Process” patent for manufacturing Trace Laboratories was named by the Walt Custer is an independent consultant who
flexible circuits with a coverlay. Consumer Products Safety Commission as monitors and offers a daily news service and
Honeywell developed a new lead-free pack- a Conformity Assessment Body and third market reports on the PCB and assembly auto-
aging technology that improves the thermal party testing laboratory for the certification mation and semiconductor industries. He can be
management of semiconductor chips. of children’s products. contacted at
walt@custerconsulting.com or visit
JUKI named Danutek Kft its Hungarian Universal Instruments:
www.custerconsulting.com.
distributor. • celebrated its 90th anniversary.
Kester expanded its Itasca, IL, headquarters • grew its base by over 70 customers in Jon Custer-Topai is vice president of Custer
facility by more than 3,000 SF to dedicate the past 12 months and captured over Consulting Group and responsible for the corpo-
more space to solder paste and tacky solder- 33% of the Americas market. ration’s market research and news analysis activi-
ing flux products. • laid off 35 employees at its Conklin and ties. Jon is a member of the IPC and active in the
Lincoln International received a “Dis- Kirkwood facilities. Technology Marketing Research Council. He can
tressed M&A Deal of the Year under $100 Valor appointed Southwest Systems as its be contacted at
jon@custerconsulting.com.
Million” award for its advisory role for representative in Mexico.
Reunion Industries’ sale of CP Industries to
Everest Kanto Cylinder.
Machine Vision Products opened a Pen-
ang, Malaysia, office and appointed Sunny
Lim its sales and marketing manager for SE
Asia.
MIRTEC purchased an Oxford, CT 5,000
SF facility for sales & service.
Nan Ya Plastics raised CCL prices by 5%
on strong sales of white-box handsets.
Omron:
• closed its West Midlands, UK, automo-
tive electronics plant.
• entered a joint touch sensor solutions
development project with Renesas.
• introduced a high-speed, high resolu-
tion AOI system.
Optomec and a major Aerospace OEM
received a contract from U.S. Air Force for
eliminating solder in electronics and reduc-
ing E-waste.
Orange County Instruments became opera-
tional as a provider of small tooling for the
electronic assembly industry.
P. Kay Metal received a patent for its MS2
dross elimination technology in China.
Rehm Thermal Systems introduced its
Dual Lane Vision X Series convection
soldering system.
Riverwood Solutions CEO Matt Ryan was
selected as 2009 “Pro to Know” by Supply
& Demand Chain Executive magazine.
Rogers acquired MTI Global’s silicones
business for US $7.4 million.
RPS deployed an advanced robotic selective
soldering system at ACI Technologies’ US
Navy Center.
SEAS entered a sales and service partner-
ship with Encon for Poland.
SIPLACE Global Sales received $6.8 mil-
lion in orders from Huawei and Siemens
Electronics Assembly Systems.
SMH Technologies named Rekirsch Elek-
tronik its Austrian sales office.
Techcon Systems appointed E-Tronics its
distributor for the Czech Republic, Slovakia
and Hungary.
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging president
and GM, Kevin Riley received the Henry
Levinstein award.
Torrey Hills appointed EMMTECH its
representative in Israel.
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