ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL -- SigmaTron International today reported revenues fell 32% from a year ago to $26.3 million for its fiscal 2010 first quarter.
IRVINE, CA – The US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed a patent covering Henkel Corp.’s Ablestik Self-Filleting die-attach products and controlled flow technique.
The patent broadly discloses the parameters of the process required to achieve a bondline fillet, using die attach paste materials. It covers a method for attaching a semiconductor die to a substrate or to another die in a stacked arrangement.
The method comprises dispensing an adhesive between the die and the substrate, or between two dies, and subjecting the adhesive to conditions suitable to cure the adhesive. With a controlled flow technique, bondlines as thin as 10 µm have been achieved and can be modified based on application-specific requirements.
DOUARNENEZ, FRANCE -- Asteel, the world's 13th largest EMS company, liquidated its plant here last week and laid off 134 workers, according to published reports.
STOCKHOLM – EMS firm Orbit One AB has acquired an 85% stake in EMS provider Wega Electronics.
No financial terms were disclosed.
The deal, which includes Wega’s factory in Prabuty, Poland, gives Orbit One four manufacturing sites, including two in Sweden and one in Russia.
Wega CEO Grzegorz Kohls holds the remaining 15% stake in the company, which will change its name to Orbit One.
Orbit One had sales of about $23 million last year, according to the CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Directory of EMS Companies.