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MILPITAS, CA -- Electronics manufacturing services provider Solectron Corp. today announced its Fremont NPI facility has received ISO 13485:2003 medical certification.

The standard specifies requirements for a quality management system for regulatory purposes in the manufacture of medical devices.

The Fremont plant, which Solectron operates under the name FinePitch, is the seventh company site to gain the certification. The others are Charlotte,NC; Scotland; Quebec; Suzhou, China; and two in Singapore.

SAN JOSE -- Flextronics last night reported fiscal first-quarter net sales from continuing operations rose 6% to $4.06 billion, while GAAP net income rose 44% to $85 million. Both numbers topped previous estimates.

Sequentially net sales from continuing operations increased 15%, and GAAP operating margin improved 180 basis points, for the period ended June 30.

"There has been a reacceleration of significant growth in our core EMS business, which includes design, vertically-integrated manufacturing services, components and logistics," said chief executive Mike McNamara.

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SAN CLEMENTE, CA -- Test and inspection OEM YESTech has opened a sales and tech support branch in Alton, Hampshire, UK.

The office will provide service to YESTech's European representatives and customers. YESTech Europe handles most European countries, the Middle East and South Africa.

"YESTech prides itself on its exceptional level of customer support and in providing local help with applications," commented Don Miller, YESTech president. "Adding further backup within the European time zone is another example of this continued commitment to bring all of our support capability to a local focus, world wide."

NEW YORK -- Dover Corp. last night said it discontinued seven businesses during its just-ended quarter, including five from Dover Technologies and one from Dover Electronics. The discontinued businesses include Universal Instruments, Hover-Davis, Vitronics Soltec and Alphasem.

DEK, the screen printer OEM, and Everett-Charles Technologies, the semiconductor and PCB test unit, and OK International were not among those companies put on the block.

In 2005, the five businesses had combined revenue of $580.2 million and earnings of $26.7 million. To-date this year the companies have joint earnings of $9.3 million on sales of $291.8 million.

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BINGHAMTON, NY -- Universal Instruments and Hover-Davis are about to be acquired, the companies said today in a press statement.

Without identifying the potential buyer, the companies said the prospective owners "are established businesses with strong track records in technology markets." 

 

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FREMONT, CA -- Three men robbed about $200,000 worth of flash memory cards from a local software company last Friday, police said yesterday.

The crime echoes an incident that took place recently in nearby Milpitas.

In the Friday incident, an Ampro Systems employee was in the company parking lot with nine boxes of computer memory cards he was about to unload. Two men accosted him, and stashed the boxes in a getaway car driven by a third man.

The car was identified as a light-blue or gray Chrysler Town and Country minivan with no license plates.

Two days earlier, at an unidentified high-tech business in Milpitas, two men were seen near the freight dock of the company. The men were apparently scared off by employees, police said. That indicident took place about 2:35 p.m. The car was described as a light-blue or gray van, which had the skull and crossbones on the back license plate area.

"They're possibly targeting this county and other counties,'' a police spokesman said.

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