Clinton, NY -- Indium Corp. has promoted Karl Pfluke to the position of regional sales manager for the Southeastern U.S. Pfluke will be responsible for the sales growth of PCB assembly, semiconductor packaging and power semiconductor packaging materials.
Pfluke has a degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and is certified as both a Powder Metallurgy Technologist with the MPIF and a Process Engineer with the SMTA. He is an active member of the IPC Solder Alloy Standards Development Group and has presented numerous technical papers. He joined Indium in 2001 as a technical support engineer and was named market development specialist in last year.OYSTER BAY, NY -- The global market for mobile location technologies is projected to rise from $23 billion in 2005 to surpass $39 billion by 2010, an average annual growth rate of 11.3%, according to a soon-to-be-released report from Business Communications Co.
Vehicle navigation systems and telematics, the largest application segments in 2004 with more than 44% of the market, should be superseded before 2010 by people and animal tracking, BCC said.