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Speaking of this Week — September 10, 2004
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
By Christine F. Della Monaca, Managing Editor, SMT
Speaking of this Week summarizes and analyzes events in the electronics assembly industry every Friday.
In this short week, the amount of news exploded. With Assembly Technology Expo (ATE) coming up at the end of the month in Rosemont, Ill., it seemed everyone wanted to tell us that they'd be there and what they would be exhibiting. There's also news of other trade shows, progress, alliances, personnel and financial news, and some good overall news for August.
- The recent annual SMTA/IMAPS Upper Midwest Industry Appreciation Day, held at 3M headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., attracted more than 170 attendees and 55 exhibitors. Looking ahead, Flemington, N.J.-based DEK, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based Aqueous Technologies and Utica, N.Y.-based Indium Corp. of America all plan to exhibit at ATE at the end of the month, and Des Plaines, Ill.-based Kester will show off its wafer bumping paste at IMAPS, held in mid-November in Long Beach, Calif. Finally, another SMTA chapter in the news: Toronto will sponsor a program about use of Six Sigma, keynoted by Sammy Shina, Ph.D. of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in early November in Ontario.
- Northbrook, Ill.-based IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries released two standards on PCB qualification and acceptability, and Adelberg, Germany-based ERNI prepared a roadmap to help its customers comply with the upcoming RoHS Directive. And Helsinki, Finland-based Elcoteq Network Corp. continues its expansion drive with establishment of a new wholly owned subsidiary, Elcoteq da Amazònia, in Manaus, Brazil. Earlier this year, the EMS company announced plans to roll out in both Russia and India. Finally, Westmoreland, N.H.-based Polyonics Inc. is offering its customers a CD-ROM of the company's latest literature, as well as an engineering sample kit with pre-printed labels.
- DEK signed an equipment alliance with Dow Corning, and Vancouver, BC-based Creation Technologies Inc. got a cash infusion of $10 million from CIBC Capital Partners to be used to fund Creation's U.S. acquisition plans. And Liberty, S.C.-based Cornell Dubilier received approval this week from the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) as a qualified provider of two kinds of wet tantalum capacitors.
- One bit of personnel news this week: Neenah, Wis.-based Plexus Corp. brought on Ralf Böer as a new member of its Board of Directors.
- Franklin, Mass.-based Speedline Technologies had good news this week. The company saw second quarter 2004 sales rise more than 61 percent year-over-year, and bookings climb 85 percent in the same period.
- Finally, some good news from the summer doldrums of August: The Arlington, Va.-based Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association (ECA) reports that its monthly order index took a large turn upward over a flat July, and marked the 12th consecutive month that order index percentage growth rose year-over-year.
This just in: According to this week's Quick Vote, 80 percent of you don't attend local SMTA meetings, and 20 percent do.
Have some insight on the industry? See something you don't agree with? Think I'm right on? Send it all to me at christinef@pennwell.com.