HANOVER, GERMANY – Viscom said 2011 consolidated revenue rose 33.7% year-over-year on higher demand in all regions.

NEENAH, WI – Plexus today reported fiscal second-quarter net income fell 16% to $20 million compared to the same period last year.

Net sales were up 1% year-over-year and 8% sequentially to $573.5 million.

MAPLE LAWN, MD – Electronics manufacturer ELTA Systems is opening a 7,500 sq. ft. facility here, and plans to expand to 25,000 sq. ft.

The company intends to create 100 high-tech jobs during the next four years, according to published reports.

The Maryland Economic Development Assistance Fund reportedly provided ELTA with a $300,000 10-year loan, provided the firm creates 100 jobs at the Maryland location by 2021.

ELTA is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries. The firm produces electronic radar, communication and surveillance equipment.

The firm has $1 billion in annual sales, 90% from exporting defense systems.

DOWNERS GROVE, IL -- Dover Corp.'s first-quarter net earnings ticked up on a double-digit bump in overall demand.

CHONGQING, CHINA -- HP today signed a deal to build a high-volume printer manufacturing facility here in concert with contract printed circuit board manufacturer Foxconn.

MILPITAS, CA – Bliss Industries has opened a showroom and training center here.

The facility displays the firm’s entire line of ESD safe carts and racks, and Bliss says it will provide solutions to electronic assembly process, production, handling, and storage problems at the site.

For more information, contact mjamal@blissindustries.com.

HERTFORDSHIRE, UK – Peak Production Equipment has joined Goepel’s JTAG/boundary scan test alliance.

The global alliance program, known as GATE (Goepel Associated Technical Experts), develops and implements new products based on combined functional and JTAG/boundary scan test, as well as enhancements in the integration of JTAG/boundary scan products in existing test systems built by Peak.

This would permit a test and integration solution to be provided from one source.

Goepel is a provider of boundary scan related software and equipment.

NEW YORK -- Contract electronics assemblers are beginning to see demand stabilize but the end-markets could still see disruption, an industry analyst said last night.

IRVINE, CA – EMS firm Probe Manufacturing reported 57% revenue growth for its fourth quarter 2011compared to the same period of 2010.

HUMLEBAEK, DENMARK -- IKEA is breaking into the consumer electronics market with a new line of A/V systems, Reuters is reporting.

TAIPEI -- Hon Hai Precision today denied a report that the company is the focus of Apple's announced environmental audit of its Chinese suppliers.

MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES -- Filipino government agencies are actively recruiting Foxconn, hoping rising labor costs in China will encourage the world's largest EMS company to locate certain manufacturing here.