SAN JOSE, CA – Flex reported fiscal third quarter net sales of $6.1 billion, down 9.6% year-over-year.

TORONTO, ON – Celestica reported fourth quarter revenue of $1.62 billion, up 7% year-over-year and 4% sequentially, above the firm’s previously provided guidance range of $1.5 to $1.6 billion.

LAKE TAHOE, CA – The 11th annual International Electrostatic Workshop (IEW) is being held May 7-11 here.

WASHINGTON -- The US Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a new rule imposing new documentation requirements on exports of specific controlled items to or through Hong Kong.

IRVINE, CA – Hanwha Techwin acquired Samsung C&T Automation for an undisclosed sum, effective Jan. 1.

MANASSAS, VA – Zestron Academy released its free 2017 Cleaning Webinar Series schedule.

GLENVIEW, IL -- Illinois Tool Works reported fourth-quarter organic revenue was down 0.3% year-over-year at its Test & Measurement and Electronics unit.

MILPITAS, CA — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted 90-day average orders of $1.99 billion in December, according to the SEMI trade group.

LOS ANGELES -- A group of major OEMs is asking a California court to dismiss anti-trust claims by Flextronics, arguing that the contract assembler failed to show how it was harmed in an alleged price-fixing case.

CLAREMONT, CA -- Seventy percent of US executives responding to a survey on near-sourcing expect it to increase within the next five years.

SAN JOSE -- Sushil Dhiman has resigned as president and chief executive of SMTC and will step down Feb. 17.

WASHINGTON – A trade association representing more than 50 major tech hardware and software OEMs took aim today at President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.