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SAN JOSE – The EMS market will continue to grow briskly in the coming years as electronics manufacturing outsourcing continues its relentless march, reports Electronic Trend Publications. The research firm reports EMS industry revenue will nearly double in the next five years, reaching $442 billion in 2011.
SALT LAKE CITY – Electronics contract manufacturer CirTran Corp. reported net sales of $2.87 million for the second quarter, up 25.7% sequentially and 29.4% year-over-year.
For the first half, CirTran reported sales of $5.16 million, up 30.4% over the same period last year.
The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $2.57 million, which included interest and other expenses totaling $1.35 million.
In a statement, Iehab J. Hawatmeh, the company’s chairman and president, said expenses were higher in the second quarter because of additional marketing spending. He said the company is hopeful the increased costs will result in increased revenues in the third and fourth quarter.
TEDDINGTON, UK – The National Physical Laboratory seeks input for its electronics defects database.
Available soon at http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk, the confidential database will amass common problems and make images freely available for engineers to implement corrective actions in processes or designs.
NPL is circulating three surveys to establish the most common problems experienced or highlighted. The surveys are aimed at PCB manufacturers/distributors/brokers (http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/surveys/pcb.pdf); component manufacturers & distributors (http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/surveys/components.pdf); and printed circuit board assembly companies (http://defectsdatabase.npl.co.uk/surveys/assembly.pdf).
Surveys are available to download; when results are compiled, a copy of the full results will be available.
ST. PETERSBURG – EMS/ODM Foxconn Electronics plans to invest at least $50 million constructing a plant near St. Petersburg, local reports say.
According to the report, Foxconn will build several HP product lines at the plant, including PCs, LCD monitors and network gear to be sold in Russia and worldwide, the company says.
The company earlier said the suburban St. Petersburg construction site would total 60,000 sq. meters.
LOS ANGELES – Sony has established a national consumer electronics recycling program to encourage proper disposal of electronics devices.
BEIJING – EMS provider Elcoteq Beijing was recently awarded with the Beijing government’s Capital Civilized Enterprise Award and the 2006 Civilized Enterprise of Business Development Area Award.
The Capital Civilized Enterprise Award was awarded for developing a business that is positively integrated into the Beijing community and meets the standards the government is fostering in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.
The 2006 Civilized Enterprise of Business Development Area Award was presented by the succinctly named Committee of Business Development Area of Social Construction of Ideological Infrastructure for contributions to accelerating the development of the high-tech industrial park as an international technology center.
This was the second year in a row Elcoteq won the award.
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