Holiday wishes for a “normal” 2011
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.
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 facili- ties.
• added 5DX x-ray, AOI and flexible SMD placement equipment in San
Jose, California.
• secured NOK 34 million (EUR 4.2 mil- lion) 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 exper- tise: 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,
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 halogen- free, low-loss multilayerable thermoset laminate and prepreg for microwave and
26 – Global SMT & Packaging – Celebrating 10 Years – December 2010
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 Advanced Technology Systems segment in Asia.
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