WEST CHICAGO, IL -- Connectors used in instrumentation products are a $700 million market and growing, said a new research report.
Bishop & Associates says sales of connectors used in instrumentation applications will grow to over $1
billion by 2009.
The 200-page research report also notes that the instrumentation market is not moving to China,
provides high profit margins and growth that exceeds industry
averages.
MIDLAND, MI — Dow Chemical will increase prices for all
grades of epoxy resins sold in North America by $0.05/lb, the company
said today. The increases are effective Nov. 1, 2005, or as
contract terms permit.
Dow said
the increase is driven by various factors, including additional
increases in feedstock and energy prices, and difficulties in
transporting key raw materials due to the combined impact of Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Rita in North America.
Epoxy resins are used in laminates for printed circuit boards.
CLEVELAND – Keithley Instruments will expand in Singapore and open of two offices in Malaysia for direct sales and support of its electrical test
and measurement solutions, the company said today.
In a statement, chairman, president and CEO Joseph P. Keithley said,
“Our new sales and support offices in Singapore and Malaysia allow us
to build closer working partnerships with local customers."
More
than 50% of the company's sales come from outside the U.S.
CHICAGO -- Newark
InOne, a small-quantity distributor of electronics components and test
equipment, has added to its product line pre-calibrated test equipment, an expanded range of panel
instrumentation, and custom capabilities for analog and digital panel meters, and
controllers.
In a statement, the company said its Newark InOne
Services metrology lab in Colorado is calibrating clamp meters, digital
multimeters, oscilloscopes and benchtop power supplies from
Fluke, Tektronix, Agilent, B&K, Amprobe and Megger. Certification with data accompanies all test equipment.
"Newark InOne Services is all about saving our customers time and increasing their
productivity," said Paul Tallentire, president, Newark InOne. "When you buy a
scope or meter from us that's already been calibrated, you can start using it from day
one."
In July 2005, Newark InOne purchased the assets of Colorado-based R&R
Instrumentation and transferred all of its business and employees to create the new
division.
PALO ALTO -- King Yuan Electronics Corp., an integrated back-end service provider in Taiwan,
has purchased an Agilent Technologies 93000 Pin Scale system to add to its Agilent
93000 installed base. The system will be used for testing complex SOCs
(systems-on-a-chip) for applications such as PCI Express, Serial ATA
and HyperTransport.
"We are
seeing a growing demand for the 93000 Pin Scale system, especially from
customers wanting faster and more economical test solutions for
high-complexity, high-accuracy SOC devices," said Gauss Chang, KYEC
assistant vice president in charge of sales, marketing and platform
evaluation. "We chose the 93000 Pin Scale system because it gives us
the flexibility to measure a wide range of devices with very high
accuracy at a low cost of test."
The system supports up to 2,048 pins -- enough for multisite test or
high-pin-count devices. The tester scales to 3.6 Gb/s to
address high-speed interface applications targeted for KYEC's
system.
ROCHESTER, NY -- Hover-Davis Inc., a provider of component feeders, will exclusively distribute the Laurier tray feeding product family to the worldwide end-user market. Terms were not disclosed.
Laurier’s OEM product offerings includes automated handling of JEDEC trays and
waffle packs.
"Our target is to offer a comprehensive
set of feeding solutions to the market,” said Roland Heitmann, Hover
Davis director of semiconductor feeding solutions. “By adding
the capability of handling JEDEC trays and waffle packs, we take
another significant step to being a complete feeding solution provider
for our customers.”
Laurier, part of Besi, manufactures back-end microelectronic assembly equipment.