VANCOUVER -- EMS provider Pacific Insight Electronics announced fiscal fourth quarter sales rose 14.7% year-over-year.

GAINESVILLE, FL -- A group of professors at the University of Florida today announced a new counterfeit IC image repository aimed at giving industry a solution for identifying fake parts.

DETROIT -- SAE has released ARP6328, a new guideline for implementing a counterfeit mitigation program in accordance with AS5553.

BANGKOK -- Panasonic announced the opening of an innovation center in Bangkok, the company’s factory automation showroom in Southeast Asia, aimed at showcasing its manufacturing technologies and equipment.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – Electronics manufacturer SigmaTron International reported fiscal first quarter 2017 revenues ended July 31 of $58.9 million, down 8.3% year-over-year.  

CRANSTON, RI – AIM Solder added Alfatec Indústria e Comércio as a licensed manufacturer of AIM’s line of solder assembly materials, to meet growing demand in the Brazilian market.  

HAWTHORNE, CA – OSI Systems has completed its previously announced acquisition of American Science and Engineering.

TURGI, SWITZERLAND -- Enics Schweiz will cut up to 25% of its workforce here as part of cost-cutting measures aimed at returning the EMS site to profitability.

SANTA CLARA, CA -- PCB West, the Silicon Valley's largest trade show for the printed circuit board industry, opens here Tuesday.

CARLSBAD, CA — A new program teaching electronics assembly to military veterans and the public and large is being offered through the auspices of MiraCosta College.

TAIPEI -- Compal reported August consolidated revenues of NT$64.6 billion ($2.06 billion), up 0.6% year-over-year.

WASHINGTON, DC – The US government has expanded sanctions against Russia, targeting the electronics sector, with 11 additional Russian firms added to the list of those not allowed to do business with the US.