JACKSON, MI -- Sparton Corp. an EMS provider, announced its engineering and electronics manufacturing
operations are in full compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous
Substances directive. Sparton received third-party certification for establishing a fully
compliant lead-free design and manufacturing process into its
electronics services capabilities, the company said today.
TORONTO - Nortel Networks Corp. today said its manufacturing plant in Monkstown, Northern Ireland, would no longer be included in the sale of several of its factories to Flextronics. Instead, Nortel, will use the plant as its regional supply-chain
center for operations in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa.
KENOSHA, WI — Promation, a company
specializing in PCB handling equipment, selective robotic soldering,
laser mark and technical workstations, has secured a sales relationship
with Kintner Equipment Corp. (Endicott, NY) to serve customers in upstate New York and western Pennsylvania.
Gary
Goldberg, president of Promation, said, “Kintner Equipment is a
premiere capital equipment sales organization with many years of
experience in both SMT and back-end manufacturing operations. Promation
is delighted to have secured this business relationship.”
SAN JOSE -- Research firm Semico yesterday forecasted
semiconductors would see an 18% jump in revenues next year, pushing out
the start of the next downcycle to the second half of 2008.
The firm also called for stronger second half sales this year, due to traditional and emerging markets.
MIDLAND, MI -- Dow Corning's Photonics Solutions business development program
will be merged into its Electronics business and the company will increase sales, marketing, and
product development activities to support creation of
"light-management" applications for a vast range of markets, including
automotive, displays, and telecommunications.
The
new Light Management group will focus on helping customers develop and
commercialize applications that rely on the emission, transmission,
amplification, detection, modulation, and switching of light.