PARIS – A top France administrator has agreed to a set enforcement laws, which include tough sanctions for companies found to commit serious offenses under the REACH regulations.

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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s industrial output grew 12.4% year-over-year in July, as the key electronics sector continued to recover.
 
Singapore’s electronics manufacturing output dropped 5.6% for the month, a big improvement on the 19.2% drop in June.
 
Sequentially, industrial output grew a seasonally adjusted 23%; this contrasts with a revised 9% drop seen in June.
 
Year-to-date, industrial output fell 10.3% compared to the same seven months in 2008.

ST. LOUIS-- Northrop Grumman has awarded LaBarge Inc. $2.6 million in add-on orders for electronics subsystems for the Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array radar.

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TORRANCE, CA – Technical Devices Company has acquired all marketing, sales/distribution, and service rights for the AquaTherm batch cleaner and X-Series vertical stencil cleaner from Austin American Technology of Burnet, TX, effective immediately.

Technical Devices is the exclusive North American distributor of these products.

Under the multiyear exclusive distribution agreement, AAT will no longer manufacture batch and stencil cleaning systems for sale to the public.

No financial terms of the agreement were disclosed.