ORLANDO, FL -- IEC Electronics' largest stockholder is making a play to gain control of the board of the EMS firm.

CORONA, CA – Aqueous Technologies has acquired a new manufacturing facility here and will relocate all manufacturing, sales, service and other administrative departments.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American printed circuit board shipments increased 0.8% year-over-year in October, says IPC. Year-to-date shipments are down 1%. Sequentially, PCB shipments were down 5.2%.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Christine Taylor, a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Charles Hutchins Educational Grant.

NEWARK, NY -- IEC Electronics reported a net loss of $446,000 on revenue of $35.7 million for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30. 

MINNEAPOLIS -- HEI Inc. announced today that it has engaged an advisory firm to assist in reviewing strategic options, including the possibility of selling all or part of the company, in addition to financing, investing and consolidation alternatives.

CRANSTON, RI – Aim Solder completed an expansion to its facility here.

SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continued to see orders slide relative to sales in October, the SEMI trade group said. 

WASHINGTON -- The Information Technology Industry Council has issued a statement criticizing the Obama Administration and Congress for failing to implement a comprehensive immigration reform. 

OAKLAND, CA – A new white paper from EMS provider Digicom Electronics explains how design and manufacturing conditions, along with myths about board cleanliness and contamination, have exacerbated cleanliness issues. The company used its experience in building electronics for medical devices to explain how cleaning can eliminate board contamination.

PARIS – AOI OEM Vi Technology will receive some €15 million in new funding from a trio of investment firms for use in product development and marketing.  

DUBLIN – The global man-portable military electronics market will grow to $4.5 billion by 2023, a 10-year CAGR of 3.42%, says Research and Markets.