Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Features

SENECA, PA – The Matric Group, parent of EMS companies Matric and Dynamic Manufacturing, and R2J Technologies have acquired MLS Electrosystem, a manufacturer of blade pitch control systems for utility grade wind turbines.

No financial terms were disclosed.

The firm will be renamed Windurance LLC.

The Matric Group manufactures pitch control systems, which it will provide to Windurance.

R2J Technologies will provide design and engineering capabilities to the renamed firm.

NELSON, BC – Contract assembler Pacific Insight Electronics reported fiscal second-quarter sales of $7.41 million, essentially flat with last year.

MORRISVILLE, NC -- Juki Automation Systems today became the latest assembly equipment company to sign up to exhibit at Virtual PCB, the industry's only online trade show.

STOCKHOLM -- Note AB today said net sales fell 30% for the December period to to SEK 291.5 million ($39.8 million), while the net losses improved to SEK 9.9 million ($1.35 million), up from 36.6 million a year ago. The firm will further restructure to boost profits, it said.

VINH PHUC, VIETNAM – Foxconn International Holdings’ on-again, off-again cellphone plant in Vietnam is on again, according to local media reports.

CANBY, OR – EMS firm Screaming Circuits has added the capability to quote and order PCBs on its website.

Design engineers are able to combine the online fabrication and assembly quote and order process.

The website permits quoting and ordering of just assembly or assembly with PCB fabrication.

The firm is working in partnership with Sunstone Circuits and the Circuit Design ECOsystem.