MCLEAN, VA -- January US manufacturing technology orders totaled $401.69 million, up 8.4% year-over-year, according to a leading manufacturing association.

SAN JOSE -- Flextronics has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stellar Microelectronics, a full-service electronics manufacturing services provider specializing in medical and military production.

WINFIELD, KS -- The husband and wife team of Adam and Jill Conaway, engineering technicians from S and Y Industries, won first and third place, respectively, in the IPC Apex Expo hand soldering competition last month.

LONDON -- ITRI and T.I.C. have extended their raw mineral tracking and traceability agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of Mines to a larger area of the country.