INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Specialty Coating Systems is hosting a webinar Nov. 8 on Parylene conformal coatings.
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO -- Ersa North America next month will hold grand opening for its new demo and technology center here.
TOKYO -- SIIX, Japan's largest EMS company, plans to invest a total of nearly $12 million toward new plants in Europe and China.
SAN JOSE, CA – Flex posted fiscal second quarter 2017 net sales ended Sept. 30 were slightly over $6 billion, down 4.9% year-over-year.
AUSTIN, TX – CSP packages, such as QFNs and stacked die CSPs, show an 8% CAGR from 2015 to 2020, according to TechSearch International, despite a slowing growth rate for smartphones.
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA -- Some 15 months after announcing plans to invest $5 billion in new manufacturing plants in India, Foxconn looks like it will likely bail from the projects, a top government official is saying.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Vendors shipped a total of 362.9 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter, up 1% year-over-year, despite Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note 7. Sequentially, shipments grew 5.3%, according to International Data Corp.
PENANG, MALAYSIA – Celestica opened its new Global Business Services (GBS) office here and plans to grow further in the next 18 months, according to published reports.
NEENAH, WI – Plexus reported fiscal fourth quarter revenue ended Oct. 1 of $653.1 million, down 2.3% year-over-year and 2.2% sequentially.
NESS ZIONA, ISRAEL – There is increasing demand for in-house prototyping for research and product development, according to a recent Nano Dimension survey of printed circuit board designers and manufacturers, electrical engineers, OEMs and others interested in 3D-printed PCBs.
BILLINGSTAD, NORWAY – Kitron reported third quarter revenue of NOK 463 million (US$56.1 million), down 1.1% year-over-year.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – University engineers are adding to heat-shrinking materials. A team led by Nicholas X. Fang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or trusses. The sugar-cube-size structures quickly shrink when heated to about 540°F.