LONDON -- Cookson Group will spin off its solder materials and electroplating chemistry business units into a new company called Alent, the materials giant said today.

ATLANTA -- UP Media Group today announced the launch of Board Talk, a new bulletin board for the electronics industry.

JASPER, IN -- A 15% jump in Kimball's EMS sales helped boost the company to a 6% overall hike in revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30.

WASHINGTON -- A pair of major US business groups have filed a lawsuit asking the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to modify or set aside in whole or in part the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulations requiring companies to publicly disclose their use of conflict minerals that originate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.