VELLINGE, SWEDEN -- Top 40 electronics manufacturing services firm PartnerTech reported fourth-quarter net sales of SEK 556.1 million ($77.4 million), down 14.6% from a year ago. 

Separately, the company named Leif Thorwaldsson president and CEO, replacing Rune Glavare.

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PHILADELPHIA – Soldering guru Dieter Brammer passed away this morning at his home in Philadelphia.

Brammer was well known in the surface mount electronics manufacturing industry as a pioneer in the use of forced convection reflow for SMT soldering.

Originally from Lüneberg, Germany, Brammer immigrated to the US in the 1960s as a locksmith. He became involved in the membrane switch industry, printing and curing conductive inks, which led him to the electronics industry and the search for efficient drying and curing ovens.

He founded Screen Printing Technology in the 1980s in Eastern Massachusetts, eventually switching to infrared and later convection reflow soldering ovens. The business later became ABW Systems.

SUZHOU – Nordson Dage can now build x-ray inspection systems at its plant in Suzhou, China.

The facility is able to provide complete, fully tested products from a manufacturing procedure that replicates those used at its headquarters in the UK.

The plant was set up originally four years ago to provide subassemblies for the firm’s x-ray inspection systems.

 

LAMPHUN, THAILAND – Hana Microelectronics reportedly could spend $30 million to $35 million to expand production facilities, hiring up to 1,000 more staff in 2010.

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