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LOHJA, FINLAND — An Elcoteq subsidiary today signed a deal to sell its manufacturing facility here to Sponda Kiinteistörahasto for 6.3 million euros. The transaction will be executed as a real estate deal, with ownership being transferred from the subsidiary, Kiinteistö Oy Piiharju, to Sponda by Oct. 31.
INDIANAPOLIS – Specialty Coating Systems has completed its acquisition of Parylene Japan K.K.
The deal was finalized Sept. 14.
SCS will do business in Japan as Parylene Japan Inc. (Nihon Parylene Kabushiki Gaisha) and will continue to be led by president Eddie Narita.
The 10,000 sq.-ft. Tokyo facility is ISO 9001:2000 certified and includes two Class 10K cleanrooms.
PJKK, a joint venture between SCS and Three Bond Co. Ltd., was established in 1990 to provide Parylene conformal coating services and technologies in Japan.
ORLANDO – Celestica Inc. was honored with three awards from the SMTA this week in Orlando. The awards recognize Celestica's technology leadership and contribution to the SMTA's technical education and collaboration initiatives.
Celestica was presented with the SMTA Corporate Partnership Award in recognition of its support of the association's global technical and certification programs. Celestica is the only company to have won the award twice.
Engineering principal Jeff Kennedy accepted the Founders Award for contributions to the industry and the SMTA. Since joining the SMTA in 1988, Kennedy has been a local chapter driver and has been involved in national SMTA conferences as a speaker and chairman. He also launched and chaired the association's Medical Electronics Conference during its first two years.
<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->Heather McCormick, process development engineering advisor, received an award for the Best International Paper of the 2006 conference proceedings. The award recognized “Mixing Metallurgy: Reliability of Tin-silver-copper (SAC) Balled Area Array Packages Assembled Using Tin-lead (SnPB) Solder.” The paper was written by McCormick and co-authors Simin Bagheri, Polina Snugovsky, Craig Hamilton, Zohreh Bagheri, George Riccitelli and Ramesh Mohabir. <!--[endif]-->
Celestica was presented with the SMTA Corporate Partnership Award in recognition of its support of the association's global technical and certification programs. Celestica is the only company to have won the award twice.
Engineering principal Jeff Kennedy accepted the Founders Award for contributions to the industry and the SMTA. Since joining the SMTA in 1988, Kennedy has been a local chapter driver and has been involved in national SMTA conferences as a speaker and chairman. He also launched and chaired the association's Medical Electronics Conference during its first two years.
<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->Heather McCormick, process development engineering advisor, received an award for the Best International Paper of the 2006 conference proceedings. The award recognized “Mixing Metallurgy: Reliability of Tin-silver-copper (SAC) Balled Area Array Packages Assembled Using Tin-lead (SnPB) Solder.” The paper was written by McCormick and co-authors Simin Bagheri, Polina Snugovsky, Craig Hamilton, Zohreh Bagheri, George Riccitelli and Ramesh Mohabir. <!--[endif]-->
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