DALLAS, TX – Contemporary Research has acquired its longtime electronics supplier JS Techtronics Assembly, forming CR Assembly, a contract electronics assembly division. Terms were not disclosed.

LAS VEGAS – Six longtime IPC volunteers were presented with IPC President’s Awards at IPC Apex Expo. Award recipients were Daniel Gamota, Jabil Circuit; E. Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins; Gerard O’Brien, Solderability Testing & Solutions; Richard Rumas, Honeywell Canada; Tony Senese, Panasonic Electric Works, and Donald Walsh, Uyemura.

BRIDGEWATER, MA -- Chase Corp. reported fiscal second quarter sales rose 5.8% from last year to $51.2 million. For the quarter ended Feb. 28, net income was up 7.1% to $4.52 million, boosted by higher demand for conformal coatings.

LONDON -- The man portable military electronics market will reach $3.1 billion in 2014, a new research report says. Visiongain says significant investment in the sector in recent decades has led to a boom, particularly due to US and allied forces in operations in the Middle East and Central Asia.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA -- Intel yesterday announced plans to cut 1,500 jobs from its assembly and test operation here as part of a planned migration of manufacturing to Asia. The cuts affect more than 50% of the semiconductor manufacturer's workforce here.

OYSTER BAY, NY -- Sales of collision warning and mitigation systems will reach $29.5 billion by the end of 2020, with the majority of the market value being accounted for by vehicles sold in the Asia-Pacific region, ABI Research forecasts.

TORONTO – Firan Technology Group reported first-quarter sales ended Feb.  28 of nearly $14 million, up 7.5% year-over-year.

LAS VEGAS – Six long-time IPC volunteers were presented with IPC President’s Awards at IPC Apex Expo.

BOXBOROUGH, MA – Metcal will hold a pair of workshops on reworking printed circuit board assemblies in the Boston and New York suburbs next month.

CHANDLER, AZ – Isola Group has launched a technology licensing program to mitigate conductive anodic filamentation (CAF) problems in the fabrication of printed circuit boards.

STAMFORD, CT – Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled $33.8 billion in 2013, an 11.5% decline year-over-year, says Gartner.

WASHINGTON — Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $25.87 billion in February, an increase of 11.4% from a year ago, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today. It was the industry’s largest year-to-year increase in more than three years.