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PÉCS, HUNGARY – Contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics could hire up to all 1,500 recently laid off Elcoteq staff here, say published reports.

Flextronics reportedly plans to hire 500 of the 1,500 workers Elcoteq dismissed last month in Pécs, plus the other 1,000 at its site under expansion in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary.

Flextronics has neither confirmed nor denied the report.

MILWAUKEE, WI – Electronics manufacturing services provider Creation Technologies today said it has acquired the design, product development and manufacturing group of Quest Product Development Corp.

TAIPEI – In 2012, Sony plans to shift some three to four million orders for LCD TVs to Foxconn from Wistron, according to published reports.

INDIANAPOLIS – Specialty Coating Systems will host a free webinar on Dec. 1: Advances in Conformal Coatings: Enhancing the Reliability of Innovative Technologies.

The 60-minute webinar will provide an overview of ultra-thin, pinhole-free Parylene coatings; Parylene’s properties that enhance reliability of components; how Parylene is applied to result in ultra-thin conformal coatings; examples of applications that benefit from Parylene’s properties; new advances that have been made in adhesion technologies, and advanced applications for Parylene.

For more information, visit www.SCSwebinars.com.

MUNICH – Initial thoughts from Productronica, where the weather was brisk outside, but starting to heat up inside.

Traffic was a bit slow relative to past years. The show itself seems smaller – and again, this is relative, as it remains bigger than almost all the other major electronics assembly trade shows combined – with traditional powerhouses like Siemens, Universal Instruments and other placement companies occupying booths that, while they would still qualify as monstrous at any other show, no longer fill entire halls on their own. (This is a good thing.)