ATLANTA, GA – Printed circuit engineers are ready to get back to face-to-face events, and the PCB West technical conference has all the reasons they need to make their return to live interaction more than worth their time. Registrants who sign up before September 7 can take advantage of the Early Bird Special discounts for the conference, which features 40 presentations spanning more than 120 hours of classroom time.

WASHINGTON – Face-to-face meetings have been scarce in the past year, but historically even rarer have been sessions between US electronics industry leaders and their counterparts in the US Department of Defense.

BERLIN – The second incarnation of a panel level packaging consortium, PLC 2.0, investigated warpage and die shift in large format reconfigured panels (18" x 24"), and considerable progress has been made toward understanding the root causes. With these insights, the relevant parameters can now be controlled better to enable large-area fine-line RDL processes. The analytical effort has paid off, as RDL could be scaled down considerably on the panel level, making the most of the advantages of both wafer and panel-level technologies and paving the way for an entirely new process chain with new equipment and materials.

TABY, SWEDEN -- Mycronic has signed an agreement to acquire Shenzhen Huan Cheng Xin Precision Manufacture, an OEM of screen printers and pick-and-place machines.

LOGANSPORT, IN – Compal Electronics acquired Cal-Comp USA (Indiana) for an undisclosed sum, according to reports.

PALMDALE, CA – Lockheed Martin completed construction on a 215,000 sq. ft. Skunk Works headquarters and smart manufacturing facility here, according to reports.

MUNICH – Katek reported revenue for the first half of 2021 was €271 million (US$317.5 million), an increase of 48.5% year-over-year. Organic growth was 27.1%, mainly driven by renewables/solar and eMobility.

HYDERABAD, INDIA – Keerthi Industries reported Electronics net sales for the quarter ended June 30 were Rs 39.7 million (US$533,522), an increase of 206.4% year-over-year.

BANGKOK – Fabrinet reported fiscal fourth quarter revenue was $509.6 million, up 25.8% year-over-year.

VEJLE, DENMARK – GPV reported revenue of DKK 1.5 billion (US$238.4 million) in the first half of 2021, up 11% year-over-year.

SANTA ANA, CA – Ducommun reported second quarter net revenue for its Electronic Systems segment was $102.8 million, up 11.7% year-over-year.

MINNEAPOLIS – Nortech Systems reported second quarter net sales of $30.2 million, up 14% year-over-year and 36.7% sequentially. The revenue improvement was primarily due to higher production volume resulting from actions to scale the direct labor workforce and strengthen the supply chain for parts.