KIRISHIMA CITY, JAPAN – Kyocera will begin construction of a new research and development center here in January. The company plans to invest approximately 10 billion yen ($96 million).

ATLANTA, GA – UP Media Group today announced a pair of upcoming webinars aimed at engineers who seek training on designing printed circuit boards.

NARASAPUR, INDIA -- Apple has put Wistron on probation in response to riots at the EMS company's iPhone manufacturing plant here.

BENGALURU - Wistron this weekend fired the head of its electronics factory in Narasapur, India, where workers upset over missing pay caused millions of dollars of damage to the plant.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Net income at electronics manufacturing services provider VS Industry jumped 38.7% year-over-year to RM66.67 million ($16.5 million) in the period ended Oct. 31.

ZANDT, GERMANY – Zollner Elektronik CEO Johann Weber will retire on Jan. 1 but will remain a member of the supervisory board.

HAMBURG, GERMANY – After a review of the market and its personnel, Scanfil has decided to shutter its electronics assembly factory here. The EMS company will take one-time restructuring charges of approximately €6 million in the fourth quarter as result of the closing.

CHICAGO – Merger activity in the EMS industry has barely blinked in the wake of Covid-19, based on quarterly tracking of the number of transactions.

MUNICH – Rohde & Schwarz and IHP have performed the first full 2-D/3-D antenna characterization of transceiver modules operating in the D-Band.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Jabil reported fiscal first quarter net revenue of $7.8 billion, up 4.4% year-over-year.

KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN – ASE, Chunghwa Telecom and Qualcomm Technologies unveiled a 5G smart factory here. The ASE 5G smart factory is powered by a private 5G mmWave network service provided by Chunghwa Telecom, supported by Qualcomm’s mmWave platform.

WESTLAKE, OH – Nordson reported fiscal fourth quarter sales of $559 million down 5% year-over-year.