ROSEMONT, IL – SMTA seeks papers for its annual SMTA International conference here next year.

WESTLAKE, OH -- Nordson today reported fourth-quarter net income of $60 million, down 11.8% year-over-year. For the period ended Oct. 31, sales were $411 million, down 6% from the prior year.

SAN JOSE -- From toys and games, freshness sensors, body media, and medical devices to applications in outer space and high speed communications, flexible and printed electronics are changing the ways companies develop advanced products and packages to better serve their customers and gain a competitive advantage.  To speed adoption of these technologies into a broad range of industries, FlexTech Alliance today announced the formation of users groups focused on two general application areas: wearable electronics and disposable electronics.

NORTH READING, MA -- Teradyne and Goepel Electronic have developed an extended boundary scan option for production in-circuit and functional PCB testers  and modular functional testers on VXI and PXI Express.

TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics reported consolidated revenues rose 18% year-over-year to NT$456.2 billion ($15.4 billion) in November. It set a new monthly sales mark for the world's largest ODM/EMS company.

FRAMINGHAM, MA -- IDC Manufacturing Insights today predicted 3D supply chains will be one of the top developments in the coming year. The research group made its comments as part of its annual top 10 predictions for manufacturing.

ZURICH – Cicor Group is merging its Cicor Printed Circuit Boards and Cicor Microelectronics divisions into a single unit: Advanced Microelectronics & Substrates. The move comes after Microelectronics has failed to make significant progress over the past two years, the firm says.

NOTTINGHAM, UK – The 9th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing requests abstracts focused on process and materials development, design and software developments, supply chain and management issues, and novel applications of additive manufacturing.

BROMONT, CANADA – Cogiscan and Speedline Technologies have formed an OEM partnership under which Cogiscan will provide software to harvest and report traceability data from Speedline printers.

MINNEAPOLIS – IBM engineer Matt Kelly has been awarded the SMTA International 2013 Rich Freiberger Best of Conference for his presentation titled "Plasma Stencil Treatments: A Statistical Evaluation." The award was selected by attendees of the October conference.

GARDEN GROVE, CA -- OK International has named Christopher Larocca president, effective immediately. He supersedes Mark Cowell, who is retiring after 30 years with OK, the past eight as president.

NEENAH, WI -- Plexus appears to be weathering the impending loss of longtime top customer Juniper Networks. The EMS company's fourth-quarter operating margin was 5.1%, its highest mark since March 2008, and management expects margins to continue to top 5% in the coming quarters.