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Video News
Flextronics
plant for St. Petersburg, Russia
Demonstrations
in Germany as Nokia plant closes
OK
International appoints sales channel manager for Europe
Christopher
Merow joins Blue Thunder Technologies
iNEMI
launches 2009 Roadmap series
Endicott
Interconnect Fabricates award-winning PCB
Battery
life improves tenfold
Mike
Buetow's Virtual PCB Exhibition
KIC
enhances its thermal profiling system
A.C.E.
launches improved solder delivery system
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Digi-Key
Corporation & Wurth Electronics Midcom announce global distribution
agreement
Wurth Electronics manufactures passive components for automotive, industry,
and telecom applications.
ZESTRON Asia/Pacific
relocates to larger facility
ZESTRON Asia/Pacific has relocated to a larger facility in Shanghai, China.
Call for participation
issued for IPC Midwest conference & exhibition
Abstracts must be submitted by April 11, 2008.
Nihon Superior
USA to showcase SN100C at Electronics West 2008
Nihon Superior USA will be showcasing its SN100C products with FCT Assembly,
one of its US SN100C Global Partners, in Booth 128 at the upcoming Electronics
West exhibition, scheduled to take place January 29-31, 2008 in Anaheim, Calif.
IPC issues report
on microelectronics — who’s driving and how to get there
Commissioned on behalf of IPC’s Executive Market & Technology Forum
members, the report assesses the drivers of miniaturization and describes and
analyzes the technologies that enable this miniaturization.
National Electronics
Week looks forward to a positive NEW year following widespread industry
support
National Electronics Week has made a strong start to the year, announcing even
more high profile additions to its floorplan while lining up a wealth of educational
opportunities for attendees.
Ratner joins Heraeus
Contact Materials Division as regional sales engineer
Steven Ratner has been appointed to the position of West Coast regional sales
engineer for the Contact Materials Division of Heraeus.
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Seasonal
winter slowdown has arrived - modest global growth in 2008
Walt Custer and Jon Custer-Topai
We are now in the seasonal “slow period” – the trough between
the Aug-Nov “holiday ramp-up” and the late spring “recovery.” All
consumer electronics products (personal computers, mobile phones, video games,
A/V equipment) follow this strongly seasonal demand pattern. Factories are
currently less busy, lead times have shortened and price reductions (in an
attempt to gain market share and boost production volumes) are the norm. Read
the full article...
This article appeared in Global SMT & Packaging 8.1, January 2008.
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