NOIDA, INDIA -- Padget Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dixon Technologies, has signed an agreement to manufacture Motorola smartphones in India.

AUKPARA, BANGLADESH -- Symphony Mobile has begun small-scale printed circuit board assembly for mobile phones here, making it the second domestic manufacturer of PCBs in the country.

CHENNAI -- Salcomp has acquired an idle 30,000 sq. m. (323,000 sq. ft.) electronics manufacturing facility in India from Jabil.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The US Congress on Monday approved $10 million for research into the issues surrounding lead-free electronics in mission-critical applications.

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.