ATLANTA – Circuits Assembly today announced the winners of its 2006 Service Excellence Awards for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, materials and software suppliers.
Circuits Assembly recognized the companies that received the highest customer service ratings, as judged by their own customers, during a ceremony last night at the Apex trade show in Anaheim, CA.
ATLANTA -- UP Media Group Inc. today announced a partnership with netCOMPONENTS to provide components part searching on the Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture and Circuits Assembly websites.
The new parts search allows users access to the inventory positions of included suppliers. Users will be able to send e-mail requests for quotes and purchase orders to included suppliers for any listed parts.
netCOMPONENTS Inc. (www.netcomponents.com) is a market leader in
sourcing services for the worldwide electronic components industry.
netCOMPONENTS has more than 2,300 suppliers and lists more than 575
billion ICs, semiconductors, and other actives and passives.
"netCOMPONENTS is pleased to power the UP Media Group part search," said Nigel Larsen, manager of global marketing and product maintenance. "This is a great opportunity for netCOMPONENTS suppliers to gain additional exposure of their inventory, and a great opportunity for UPMG Web site visitors to utilize a powerful part search feature with no registration required and without having to leave UPMG's Web site environment."
NORTH BILLERICA, MA -- BTU International will purchase the product lines and other assets of Radiant Technology
Corp. for $500,000 in cash and up to 100,000 shares of stock, worth some $17.7 million after the market closed Feb. 9. Closing is expected by early March, the companies said, subject to customary closing conditions including RTC shareholder approval.
RTC makes inline near IR furnaces and dryers primarily used for solar energy.
ROSEVILLE, CA -- International DisplayWorks Inc. has been named as the primary source by a major Taiwan consumer electronics manufacturer on a new MP3 product. Volume production is expected to begin in April, and will result in at least $5
million in annual sales for IDW.
The MP3 player uses a TFT display from IDW, the company said.
JACKSON, MI -- EMS
provider Sparton Corp. won three
contracts worth more than $24 million to manufacture sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy .
Sparton won a $20 million program to build the AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoy; a $2.5 million contract for the AN/SSQ-77C, and a $1.5 million program for the AN/SSQ-62E.
Production will take place in Sparton's DeLeon
Springs, FL, facility and is expected to be completed by June
2007.
BUDAPEST -- Flextronics International will lay off up to 950 employees -- nearly half its workforce -- at its plant in Nyiregyhaza, in eastern Hungary, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a local news agency.
According to the report, Flextronics has advised the local officials about the layoff.
The company reportedly employs 2,000 at the plant, which makes appliances and office
electronics.
The report said Flextronics cited seasonality for the impeding layoffs.