QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Nihon Superior has established a new center in conjunction with an Australian university to research electronics materials and soldering.

MUNICH -- A new 20-page white paper focuses on the complex processes involved in new product introductions (NPIs).

NEWARK, NY -- IEC Electronics reported fiscal third-quarter net income jumped 69% year-over-year on a 4% increase in sales.

MILPITAS, CA – Bay Area EMS celebrated its first year at its facility here.

BROMONT, QUEBEC – The Université de Sherbrooke and its partners IBM and Teledyne DALSA today inaugurated the Centre de Collaboration MiQro Innovation (C2MI), the largest microelectronics center in Canada.

SINGAPORE – Surface Mount Technology Holdings’s revenue for the three months ended June 30 was S$26.1 million ($21 million), down 61.1% year-over-year.

PROSPECT, CT – Forty-two percent of US OEMs surveyed indicate they expect to have more outsourcing projects/purchases in the next year than in the past twelve months. This is up 3% over the previous year and up 11% from the 2010 Design-2-Part Manufacturing Trends Survey.

DULUTH, GA -- Seika Machinery has relocated its Atlanta office and demo center, doubling the size of the former location.

SACRAMENTO, CA -- The California Department of Toxic Substance Control has issued a formal draft for comment of its Safer Consumer Products regulation.

DEHLI, INDIA -- Some 300 million Indians are without power today as no fewer than six states there lost power for an extended period of time.

HONG KONG -- Global economic turmoil has seriously impacted growth in the PC market and it will remain sequentially weak leading up to the launch of Windows 8, whose initial benefit will mainly be satisfying delayed demand from the third quarter.

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Worldwide mobile phone shipments grew 1% year-over-year in the second quarter as Samsung and Apple solidified their dominance over the smartphone market.