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HIALEAH, FL -- Electronics manufacturing services provider Simclar Inc. will delay filing its quarterly 10-Q report for the quarter ended June 30, due to potentially significant problems arising as a result of the implementation of a new ERP software system within its Mexico subsidiary.

In a press release, the company said it is investigating but "confident that the problems are confined to the second quarter" and do not materially affect results for any previous period.

NEW YORK -- The American Electronics Association spent $256,000 in the second quarter to lobby on tax issues, customs and tariffs, and trade measures, according to a mandatory disclosure form filed July 17.

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND -- Qualmark Corp.. a provider of HALT/HASS chambers, will install a Typhoon HALT chamber at DfR Solutions under a recent agreement, the companies announced today.

WEST BERLIN, NJ -- Dynasil Corp. reported third-quarter revenues of $2.7 million, up 3.5% year-over-year.

Net income was $53,002, down 46% from last year. On July 1, Dynasil acquired the stock of Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. (RMD Instruments LLC) for $20 million. RMD's revenues for the 12 months ended June 30 were approximately $22.5 million with pretax profits of $3 million.

SAN JOSE – Doug Rasor, vice president of emerging medical applications at Texas Instruments, will keynote the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council’s Medical Electronics Symposium in September.

Rasor will discuss the coming convergence of technology and healthcare and share some truly inspiring examples of this trend in action.

Rasor’s presentation will take place Sept. 25 at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, MEPTEC said.
The program also includes sessions on revolutionary concepts in medical electronics, advanced materials, key enabling technologies and next-generation bio-medical systems

For information, visit www.meptec.org.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — Linda Woody of Lockheed-Martin will keynote the High-Performance Electronics Cleaning Symposium.

The IPC- and SMTA-sponsored event takes place Oct. 28-29, in Rosemont, IL.

Woody, a 30-year veteran in electronics assembly and electro-optical design, is a member of Lockheed's Missiles and Fire Control Technical Excellence Staff. She will speak on nozzle design and implementation for cleaning flux residues from high-density, low-profile component assemblies.

MANKATO, MN – Winland Electronics reported second-quarter net sales fell 15% from last year to $6.9 million amid lower demand from two of its three largest customers. For the period ended June 30, the net loss was $800,000, versus a net loss of $500,000 in 2007.

FRANKFURT -- A leading German workers union will ask for pay hikes of more than 6.5% in the next round of contract talks, the union chairman Berthold Huber told a local newspaper.

The two-year contract signed by IG Metall, a union that represents three million metal and electronics workers, expires in October. The union is to expected to declare its wage demands next month, according to published reports.

In the contract signed in 2006, IG Metall negotiated a two-phase hike of 4.1% and 1.7%.

PARDUBICE, EAST BOHEMIA -- A local tuberculosis outbreak is affecting workers at Foxconn's plant here, according to reports in local papers.

Three more cases of TB infection were reported late last week, bringing to nine the total number of infected Foxconn workers. In all, 29 cases of TB have been reported in the Pardubice region since the beginning of the year, the report said.

The infected Foxconn employees are Mongolians, according to the report. Two are afflicted with open TB. Some of the workers are said to have shared living quarters.

TB starts as a small infection in the lung, but can spread to other parts of the body and can cause illness or death if left untreated. Active (open) TB is a highly infectious form of the disease.

The region typically reports about 50 cases of TB annually," officials said.

In response, Foxconn is reportedly toughening its admission checkups for foreign employees.

TALLIN, ESTONIA -- Elcoteq, the world's 12th largest EMS company, plans to rehire up to 300 workers at its plant here, a company’s spokeswoman said. "We expect our orders to increase and could have a demand for new workforce,” the spokeswoman said.

AYER, MA -- Plexus will close its facility here over the next six months and cut 170 jobs, the EMS company said today. Production will be shifted to other Plexus facilities, mostly in Wisconsin.

The move will save the company about $5 million annually.

PLYMOUTH, WI – ERSA has named Ernie Grice vice president of sales for the firm’s North American operations.

Grice will manage sales and marketing of all product areas, including screen and stencil printers, reflow, wave and selective soldering machines, rework, BGA inspection and hand tools.

He has worked for ERSA for six years and has 20 years’ experience in the electronics manufacturing industry.