ESSEX, UK -- Remploy Electronics, a U.K.-based electronics manufacturing services company, will double its capacity this year, an online news source reported.
"Our business is growing and we’re investing. The plan is that we will almost double the size of our business this year," general manager Rick Cook reportedly told Electronics Weekly.
Some of the firm's factories are now running 24/7, he said.
Remploy has board assembly facilities in the U.K., in Barking, Essex and Bolton, Lancashire.
Remploy gets some funding from the British government funded and is restructuring some other non-electronics operations, the report said.
UPPER SAUCON TWP., PA -- Lutron Electronics Co., a manufacturer of lighting control products and systems, will create at
least 500 new jobs within five years by expanding its Pennsylvania
operations.
Lutron plans to construct a 250,000-sq. ft. office building, and expand its product evaluation building by some 20,000 sq. ft.
PALO ALTO, CA – Despite lower wages and price pressures from overseas competitors, the adoption of Pb-free solder paste has led a resurgence in reflow soldering equipment market sales in North America.
Industry revenues totaled $41.3 million in 2005 and are estimated to reach $68.1 million in 2012, a 3.8% average annual growth rate, Frost & Sullivan said today.