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WESTLAKE, OH -- Nordson has promoted John Byers, formerly president of its Asymtek unit, to chief information officer.

A Nordson employee since 1994, Byers had been president of Asymtek since 2006.

The company named Peter Bierhuis, formerly president of the company's March unit, to replace Byers as president of Asymtek. Bierhuis had been president of the plasma processing equipment OEM since 1999 and with Nordson since 1980.

March vice president of applications and business development Dr. James Getty will succeed Bierhuis.

Finally, Phil Vere has been promoted to president of Dage. He was managing director for bond testers. He succeeds Steven Kew, who is leaving to pursue other interests.

HONG KONG – VTech Holdings today reported fiscal first-half net profits fell 5.4% from last year to $88.5 million despite higher sales.

TIMISOARA, ROMANIA -- Flextronics has completed a 14,000 sq. ft. expansion to its facility here, paving the way for dedicated medical electronics production.

DANVILLE, VA -- EIT has opened its second manufacturing facility here, the fourth overall for the contract electronics assembler.

SAN JOSE – North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $939.4 million in orders in October (three-month average basis), down 41.1% year-over-year and up 1.4% sequentially, says SEMI.

The book-to-bill ratio was 0.74.

A book-to-bill of 0.74 means that $74 worth of orders was received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

The three-month average of worldwide billings in October was $1.27 billion, down 22% year-over-year and down 3.6% sequentially.

“The recent period’s billings and bookings reflect the slowing capital investment in the industry that has been evident throughout the year,” said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. “While overall spending has declined, investments in NAND Flash, sub-30nm technology, and system LSI are ongoing.”