Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Features

METHUEN, MA -- Shareholders of flexible circuit manufacturer Parlex Corp. today approved the sale of the company to Johnson Electric Holdings. The deal is expected to close this week.

NEEDHAM, MA – PTC, a supplier of product lifecycle management software, reported revenue of $195.1 million for the fourth fiscal quarter ending Sept. 30, 2005, up 15% from $170.1 million for the same period last year.

DORSET, UK -- Speedprint Technology Ltd. and Tecan Stencils will sponsor a number of lead-free clinics at Productronica next week.

Presentations by Tony Welton of Tecan will cover Pb-free considerations for materials, stencils, soldering and printing. The sessions will take place in booth A4.121 the week of Nov. 14, in Munich.

Tecan also will offer a Lead-free Help Desk within Speedprint's booth.

Speedprint is a division of Blakell Europlacer Group.

MELVILLE, NY -- Nu Horizons Electronics, a distributor of active components, will distribute ASICs and other products from Silicon Laboratories in North and South America. The companies announced the agreement today but disclosed few other details.

TORONTO – Celestica Inc. has acquired Displaytronix, a provider of flat-panel display repair services. Terms were not disclosed.

The acquisition gives Celestica a leg up in the rapidly growing FPD market.

ST. LOUIS -- LaBarge Inc. has been awarded a $2.2 million dollar contract from BAE Systems to produce the ethernet switch unit for the A3 Bradley Combat Systems vehicles. The ESU functions as a router and a switch, making local forwarding decisions to devices operated in the vehicle's LAN.

Production is expected to run from June 2006 and through September 2007 and will be performed at LaBarge's Huntsville, AK, facility.