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ROCHESTER, NY ¾ Hover-Davis Inc., designer and manufacturer of component delivery systems for the PCB assembly industry, has appointed Sincotron Finland Oy as its distributor for Finland and the Baltic States.
Sincotron Finland is a distributor of machines, material and services, including SMD placement, inspection, microelectronics (such as bonding, curing and cleaning), soldering, dispensing, screen printing, testing, software, profiling, tools and consumables (such as solder paste and stencil wiper papers).
“Sincotron is well established and respected in the Finnish market,” said Mike Hayward, H-D European sales manager. “Their line card is complimentary to the Hover-Davis product offering and plans for expansion into the Baltic States means that we can extend our coverage into these emerging markets.”
Norwalk, CT- Technology software developer BDMetrics will debut ATExpo Connects, a personalized web-based tool, at the Assembly Technology Expo in September. Available for each show attendee, the software mines through the ATExpo database of people, products and conference sessions to generate a custom report tailored to the attendees' needs and interests.
The tool will be release in mid-August. After attendees register, they will be emailed a personalized report detailing people they should meet, companies they should visit and conference sessions they should attend, based on the preference each attendee outlines when they register. The report will be updated as the show dates approach.
ATExpo will take place Sept. 27-29, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
“This is an important first step in fulfilling the evolving needs of OEM and
JACKSON, MI -- Sparton Corp., a provider of electronics manufacturing services, said today that it will no longer pursue negotiations to acquire medical device manufacturer HDJ Co. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Specialized Medical Devices Inc.
The company did not disclose a reason for the decision.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- Jabil Circuit Inc., a top tier contract assembler, will add 500 staff to its Memphis operations by the end of the year, to support recently awarded contracts for building electronic cash registers and self-serve kiosks. Jabil will also increase the size of the facility by more than 50%.
In a press statement, operations manager Alex Privert said the company is looking for the additional employees to handle everything from electronics system configuration and integration to material handling tasks.
TAIPEI -- Taiwanese original design manufacturers will contribute about $400 million in revenues to Flextronics International in fiscal 2006, the company's chief executive said yesterday, according to published reports.
Speaking in Taipei yesterday, Flextronics chief executive Michael Marks said sales centralization of brand products coupled with declining average selling prices of ODM products is opening the door for partnerships, DigiTimes reported.
Flextronics, the world's largest EMS company, gained about $100 million in revenues from Taiwanese ODMs in 2005, Marks said.
DigiTimes also reported that a Flextronics spokeswoman denied local reports that Flextronics would partner on IT products with Asustek Computer.
According to DigiTimes, Marks said that Flextronics is concentrating on improving profitability, not revenue growth.
