BANNOCKBURN, IL – Ramon Mendez and Brandon Gore won top honors for their papers at Apex this week, beating out more than 100 other paper submissions.
Mendez, a process development engineer at Celestica, and coauthors Mario Moreno, German Soto, Jessica Herrera and Craig Hamilton, won the International Best Paper for “Design for Manufacturability in Lead Free Wave Solder Process.”
EL SEGUNDO – Reductions in chip inventory levels
often indicate a rise in global semiconductor sales, but an expected decline in
surplus stockpiles during the last quarter is revealing troubling signs of
market weakness, says iSuppli Corp.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – DEK USA named Brian Lau general manager – Americas, effective immediately. He was formerly Group Manager, SMT Sales at Panasonic.
Lau will be based in the Chicago suburbs and report to executive vice president John Hartner.