RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – DuPont Electronic Technologies announced a global price increase of up to 20%, effective June 16. The company cites rising raw material, transportation and energy costs among its reasons for the increase.
“Due to the record rise in raw material, transportation, energy and other costs, we must pass increases along to our customers,” said Timothy P. McCann, vice president and general manager, DuPont Electronic Technologies. “We have offset cost increases as much as possible with improvements in efficiency, productivity and other internal actions; however, we simply cannot continue to absorb the current increases and invest in our future without some effect on price.”
DuPont Electronic Technologies supplies electronic materials for semiconductor packages and other products.
THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN – Digi-Key Corp. has been awarded Atmel Corp.’s Distributor of the Year Award for outstanding performance in 2007.
A presentation was made at Atmel’s annual sales conference.
"Digi-Key is not only our fastest growing distributor, but their success in supplying the engineering community with a record number of design and development tools is truly an indicator of why they were chosen for this award," said Dave Esto, senior director of Americas distribution for Atmel.
Atmel researches, designs, manufactures and markets semiconductors, including microcontroller, nonvolatile memory, logic, secure, mixed analog/digital, radio frequency and sensor ICs.
ST. LOUIS – LaBarge Inc. received an additional $1.5 million in orders from Northrop Grumman to produce electronics assemblies for the AN/ALQ-135 radar jammer system.
SEOUL – LG Electronics is considering outsourcing its handset manufacturing, a company spokesman said yesterday. The company, the world's fourth-largest cellphone OEM, is eyeing Flextronics and Foxconn as possible partners.
ENDICOTT, NY – Catalyst Manufacturing Services has acquired certain assets of fellowNY-based EMS provider Ramp Industries.No financial terms of the agreement were disclosed. The combined companies will provide manufacturing of electronic and electro-mechanical assemblies, as well as complex wire harness assembly.
Ramp has provided electronic assemblies, system integration and wire harness assemblies to military and industrial customers.
Catalyst is a contract manufacturer with locations in Endicott; Raleigh, NC; and Tijuana.