WESTLAKE, OH – Nordson Corp. this week finalized
its acquisition of Dage Holdings Ltd.
Nordson
paid £117,005,613 for the testing and inspection equipment manufacturer, which
had revenues of approximately $59 million during the 12-month period ending
Oct. 31.
Nordson
also owns Asymtek, March Plasma Systems and EFD, among others.
The deal
was announced in mid November.
Dage makes
bond testing and digital x-ray systems.
Clinton, NY – Two Indium Corp. engineers have received the Surface Mount Technology Association’s designation as Certified Process Engineers. Mario Scalzo and Chris Anglin join nine other SMTA-certified engineers at the company.
Scalzo has been with Indium for six years and is a technical support engineer for the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions. Anglin joined the company in 2004 and serves the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
The other certified employees include: Ronald C. Lasky, PhD, PE, Tim Jensen, Dave Sbiroli, Karl Pfluke, Karthik Vijayamadhavan and Eric Bastow in the U.S.; Ivan Castellanos in Mexico; Adrian Low in Singapore; and Sehar Samiappan in Malaysia.
SMTA certification recognizes and certifies the entire SMT assembly process at an engineering level. Participants must have several years of SMT experience in addition to completing educational requirements in a technical discipline. The course includes a series of workshops and concludes with two days of competitive testing.
SAN JOSE – North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.65 billion in orders in May on a three-month average basis and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.12 according to the latest data from SEMI.
A book-to-bill of 1.12 means that $112 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
CLINTON, NY - Indium Corp. named BarTron as sales representative for Michigan.
BarTron is responsible for the sales and service of Indium’s electronics assembly materials such as solder paste, preforms, wire, ribbon, and foil; rework, wave, and liquid fluxes; underfill; flux cored wire; solder spheres; epoxy; and bar solder.
BarTron has extensive technical and customer service experience and a wide-ranging line card that aligns with Indium's soldering products.
CUPERTINO, CA -- Apple Computer has launched an audit of the plant that builds its iPods in response to published reports of the factory's poor working conditions.
The plant is located in Longhua, China and is owned by Foxconn, the world's largest EMS company.
Circuits Assembly reported on the problems last week.
NEW YORK -- ASTM International's committee F40 on Declarable Substances in Materials
will meet April 18-20 in Norfolk, VA, and Nov. 14-16 in Tampa, FL
.
ASTM meetings are open to all interested individuals.
For information contact Brynn Iwanowski at ASTM International, 610-832-9640; biwanows@astm.org.