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Speaking of this Week — June 25, 2004
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
By Christine F. Della Monaca, Managing Editor, SMT
Speaking of this Week summarizes and analyzes events in the electronics assembly industry every Friday.
More big trade show news this week — this time focusing largely on Assembly Technology Expo and SMTA International in the fall. Progress news of various kinds came to the surface this week as well, as did personnel announcements and partnerships. Finally, an EMS giant released encouraging financial news. On with it:
- Northbrook, Ill.-based IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries announced that its Designers Council will host two Designers Learning Symposiums in late August and early November in Albuquerque, N.M. and Montreal, respectively. One of the biggest events of the fall, Assembly Technology Expo, co-located with SMTA International, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. This event will take place in late September in Rosemont, (Chicago) Ill. Assembly Tech Expo is planning on 10 special events as part of its Free Educational Program, as well as 30 industry-developed sessions. At electronica 2004, taking place in early November in Munich, the 2004 European Electronics Industry Awards will be presented in 15 categories. Finally, looking ahead to 2005, Burt Ratan, founder and CEO of Scaled Composites LLC and designer of SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded rocket to care humans into space, will keynote the last day of next year's APEX/IPC Printed Circuits Expo/IPC Designers Summit. The co-located shows will be held in February in Anaheim, Calif.
- In industry progress news, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Advantest Corp. was rated one of the world's top equipment suppliers in the annual customer satisfaction survey by VLSI Research — for the 16th year in a row. Methuen, Mass.-based Parlex Corp. saw new contracts this week from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) totaling more than $1 million to supply circuit assemblies for a space telescope that should launch in February 2007. Talk about far out! Two companies moved and opened facilities this week, including American Manufacturing Services (AMS), which moved to larger facilities in a HUBZone, Okemah, Okla., and Cambridge, Ontario, Canada-based ATS Automated Tooling Systems Inc. opened Canada's first full-scale, 193,000 sq ft solar cell manufacturing plant. ATS also announced new photovoltaic technology that will be produced in commercial quantities in the plant.
- Companies (and countries) coming together: Santa Ana, Calif.-based Express Manufacturing Inc. (EMI) announced that it is participating in programs that aim to promote growth in the electronics business with and in China. EMI has been an educational partner in a seminar aimed to help technology set up in Beijing. North Sutton, N.H.-based Labsphere expanded its alliance with Laser 2000 in Europe. In distributor news, Hopkinton, Mass.-based Valpey-Fisher Corp. added Bangalore, India-based SM Electronic Technologies Pvt Ltd. to distribute the company's product lines in the important market of India. Franklin, Mass.-based JNJ Industries Inc. appointed Graham, N.C.-based Clearsource Inc., along with Randall Clark, as its distributor in the Carolinas. Finally, Milpitas, Calif.-based EMS provider Solectron Corp. was chosen by Nortel Networks to provide manufacturing services for Nortel's new MPE series of IP/MLPS multiservice edge products.
- Lots of personnel news. Ready? IPC appointed Lars-Olof Wallin as its new representative in Europe, replacing Jo Warnier. Round Rock, Texas-based DuPoint Photomasks Inc. named Kevin P. Hegarty to the company's Board of Directors, and Palatine, Ill.-based Schneider Electric North American Operating Division did the same with former chairman, president and CEO Chris C. Richardson. Finally, Midland, Mich.-based Dow Corning Corp. named Thierry Materne, Ph.D., as global technology and business development manager for the company's new Surface and Interface Solutions Center in Belgium, and Concord, Calif.-based March Plasma Systems has a new business manager and regional sales manager in Japan in Terumitsu Tsuji and Yuji Takai, respectively.
- In financial good news, Solectron Corp. announced third quarter sales of $3 billion, up 5.3 percent from $2.9 billion in the second quarter and up 29 percent year-over-year from $2.4 billion.
This just in: According to this week's Quick Vote, 44 percent of you have seen an increase in wireless Bluetooth products built by your company, 44 percent have not, and 11 percent are not sure.
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.