HAUPPAUGE, NY –API Nanotronics Corp. has named Steve Pudles chief executive officer. He succeeds Phillip DeZwirek, who remains chairman.
Pudles is the former CEO and president of Nu Visions Manufacturing, where he led the company from $10 million in revenue to more than $100 million in a six-year period. He has 25 years’ electronics industry experience.
API supplies electronic components and conducts nanotechnology R&D for the defense and communications sectors.
Pudles has worked for a number of EMS firms and was recently elected secretary and treasurer of the IPC board.
ENDICOTT, NY – The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Endicott Interconnect Technologies a $148.6 million contract modification to its current program to supply finished assemblies for a high-reliability, high-performance computing application.
Under the deal, EI produces card frame assemblies, including HyperBGA organic semiconductor packaging, multichip module assemblies, PCBs, functionally tested assemblies, and supplies engineering services.
The contract modification period is from May to December this year.
AYLESBURY, UK – Dage Precision Industries has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award for automated x-ray inspection.
The award ceremony was held April 25 in Kuala Lumpur. Frost identified the top players in the automation and electronics/industrial process control industries.
In presenting the award, Arun Krumar C, research analyst for Automation and Electronics Practice, Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific, cited Dage’s value for the money and after-sales service for its growth in the Southeast Asian electronics market.