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WEST CHICAGO, IL -- Connectors used in instrumentation products are a $700 million market and growing, said a new research report.

Bishop & Associates says sales of connectors used in instrumentation applications will grow to over $1 billion by 2009. 

The 200-page research report also notes that the instrumentation market is not moving to China, provides high profit margins and growth that exceeds industry averages.
 
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MIDLAND, MI — Dow Chemical will increase prices for all grades of epoxy resins sold in North America by $0.05/lb, the company said today. The increases are effective Nov. 1, 2005, or as contract terms permit.

Dow said the increase is driven by various factors, including additional increases in feedstock and energy prices, and difficulties in transporting key raw materials due to the combined impact of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in North America.

Epoxy resins are used in laminates for printed circuit boards.
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CLEVELAND – Keithley Instruments will expand in Singapore and open of two offices in Malaysia for direct sales and support of its electrical test and measurement solutions, the company said today.

In a statement, chairman, president and CEO Joseph P. Keithley said, “Our new sales and support offices in Singapore and Malaysia allow us to build closer working partnerships with local customers."

More than 50% of the company's sales come from outside the U.S. Read more ...
CHICAGO -- Newark InOne, a small-quantity distributor of electronics components and test equipment, has added to its product line pre-calibrated test equipment, an expanded range of panel instrumentation, and custom capabilities for analog and digital panel meters, and controllers.

In a statement, the company said its Newark InOne Services metrology lab in Colorado is calibrating clamp meters, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes and benchtop power supplies from Fluke, Tektronix, Agilent, B&K, Amprobe and Megger. Certification with data accompanies all test equipment.

"Newark InOne Services is all about saving our customers time and increasing their productivity," said Paul Tallentire, president, Newark InOne. "When you buy a scope or meter from us that's already been calibrated, you can start using it from day one."

In July 2005, Newark InOne purchased the assets of Colorado-based R&R Instrumentation and transferred all of its business and employees to create the new division. Read more ...
PALO ALTO -- King Yuan Electronics Corp., an integrated back-end service provider in Taiwan, has purchased an Agilent Technologies 93000 Pin Scale system to add to its Agilent 93000 installed base. The system will be used for testing complex SOCs (systems-on-a-chip) for applications such as PCI Express, Serial ATA and HyperTransport.

"We are seeing a growing demand for the 93000 Pin Scale system, especially from customers wanting faster and more economical test solutions for high-complexity, high-accuracy SOC devices," said Gauss Chang, KYEC assistant vice president in charge of sales, marketing and platform evaluation. "We chose the 93000 Pin Scale system because it gives us the flexibility to measure a wide range of devices with very high accuracy at a low cost of test."

The system supports up to 2,048 pins -- enough for multisite test or high-pin-count devices. The tester scales to 3.6 Gb/s to address high-speed interface applications targeted for KYEC's system.

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ROCHESTER, NY -- Hover-Davis Inc., a provider of component feeders, will exclusively distribute the Laurier tray feeding product family to the worldwide end-user market. Terms were not disclosed.

Laurier’s OEM product offerings includes automated handling of JEDEC trays and waffle packs.

"Our target is to offer a comprehensive set of feeding solutions to the market,” said Roland Heitmann, Hover Davis director of semiconductor feeding solutions. “By adding the capability of handling JEDEC trays and waffle packs, we take another significant step to being a complete feeding solution provider for our customers.”

Laurier, part of Besi, manufactures back-end microelectronic assembly equipment.
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