MINNEAPOLIS, MN – SMTA seeks abstracts for the following events taking place in 2015:

HERNDON, VA – iNEMI’s Component Specifications for Medical Products Project has published a report on its work to identify and define a set of component-level reliability qualification methods for critical electronic components used in implantable and wearable medical devices.

BATH, ENGLAND – Environ has received the Elektra European Electronics Industry 2014 Environmental Award for its Environmental Compliance 4 Products tool.

TAIPEI – Notebook computer shipments will grow 0.6% year-over-year in 2015 to 174.6 million units, while tablet shipments will decline 3.5% to 185.6 million units, says TrendForce.

ORLANDO, FL -- IEC Electronics' largest stockholder is making a play to gain control of the board of the EMS firm.

CORONA, CA – Aqueous Technologies has acquired a new manufacturing facility here and will relocate all manufacturing, sales, service and other administrative departments.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American printed circuit board shipments increased 0.8% year-over-year in October, says IPC. Year-to-date shipments are down 1%. Sequentially, PCB shipments were down 5.2%.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Christine Taylor, a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Charles Hutchins Educational Grant.

NEWARK, NY -- IEC Electronics reported a net loss of $446,000 on revenue of $35.7 million for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30. 

MINNEAPOLIS -- HEI Inc. announced today that it has engaged an advisory firm to assist in reviewing strategic options, including the possibility of selling all or part of the company, in addition to financing, investing and consolidation alternatives.

CRANSTON, RI – Aim Solder completed an expansion to its facility here.

SAN JOSE — North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continued to see orders slide relative to sales in October, the SEMI trade group said.