DOWNERS GROVE, IL -- Dover Corp.'s first-quarter net earnings ticked up on a double-digit bump in overall demand.

CHONGQING, CHINA -- HP today signed a deal to build a high-volume printer manufacturing facility here in concert with contract printed circuit board manufacturer Foxconn.

MILPITAS, CA – Bliss Industries has opened a showroom and training center here.

The facility displays the firm’s entire line of ESD safe carts and racks, and Bliss says it will provide solutions to electronic assembly process, production, handling, and storage problems at the site.

For more information, contact mjamal@blissindustries.com.

HERTFORDSHIRE, UK – Peak Production Equipment has joined Goepel’s JTAG/boundary scan test alliance.

The global alliance program, known as GATE (Goepel Associated Technical Experts), develops and implements new products based on combined functional and JTAG/boundary scan test, as well as enhancements in the integration of JTAG/boundary scan products in existing test systems built by Peak.

This would permit a test and integration solution to be provided from one source.

Goepel is a provider of boundary scan related software and equipment.