LYON, FRANCE – More than $2B will be invested between 2011 and 2016 on new LLO, permanent bonding, singulation and testing equipment for LED packaging,but the rising tide won't lift all ships.
KURESSAARE, ESTONIA -- Contract electronics assembler Incap will expand its factory here by some 37,000 sq. ft., almost doubling the current space.
SAO PAULO -- Huawei Technologies plans to build or buy a manufacturing plant in Brazil in the coming months, the telecom company's top local executive said yesterday.
TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics (the trading name of Hon Hai) today reported flat August revenues as consumer demand stagnated in anticipation of the next-generation Apple smartphones.
HONG KONG -- Japan's March 11 earthquake continues to claim victims as SMT Holdings tries to stave off bankruptcy. The Top 50 EMS firm is closing two factories and cutting its workforce by one-third as orders from its major Japanese customers have dried up.
LAS VEGAS – In his first public address, the new chief manufacturing officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology stressed new tax and business policies are at the heart of the reinvention of US manufacturing.