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ST. LOUIS -- Viasystems reported first-quarter sales dropped 31.6% from a year ago to $123.4 million as demand for automotive and telecom PCBs plunged.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – A new white paper attempts to clarify facts and misconceptions surrounding high-density interconnect and dispute the sentiment that the North American PCB industry cannot produce HDI boards.

ISTANBUL – Essemtec Switzerland has signed a distribution contract for Turkey with Sinerji of Istanbul.

Sinerji provides a local show and training room for machine demonstration and evaluation, and countrywide sales, support and service.

The firm also will support installed Essemtec equipment, including automatic machines for SMD manufacturing.

Essemtec develops, fabricates, and distributes equipment for all processes of electronics manufacturing: printers, dispensers, pick-and-place and solder systems.

Sinerji has many years’ experience in SMT.

No financial terms were disclosed. The agreement is effective this past Jan. 1.

BUENA PARK, CA -- A leading trade group of electronics component distributors has issued a set of more stringent standards to ensure the integrity of semiconductors and other key electronics components.

WASHINGTON -- A new House bill proposes to prohibit the manufacture after July 1, 2010 of “electroindustry products” that contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (“PBBs”), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (“PBDEs”) above the maximum concentration levels specified in the European Union’s RoHS Directive.

TOKYO – Seven of Japan's top electronics manufacturers will post losses for the fiscal year ending in March, says EE Times.

Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corp. and Sharp Corp. are expected to have combined net losses of $22.3 billion.