Industry News

Lightspeed Manufacturing has moved from its old factory in Methuen, Mass. to a new 60,000-square-foot modern light manufacturing facility at 135 Ward Hill Avenue in Haverhill, Mass., it was announced today. Lightspeed is a leading contract manufacturer of printed circuit electronics assemblies. Lightspeed moves into an industrial park long associated with cutting-edge high-tech electronics manufacturing companies.

EasySpheres recently finalized and opened an enhanced Web-based ordering portal for customers interested in purchasing solder balls and/or solder spheres for BGA rework applications and low-volume manufacturing.

Directors and senior staff from Electrolube, the leading specialist manufacturer of high performance chemicals for the electronics, automotive and industrial manufacturing industries, will gather in China for the company’s annual international sales and marketing conference to discuss ways to further growth and success of the company.

Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com Mark Dunn, VP Engineering, Imagination Technologies with Simon Payne, CEO XJTAG), the leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, is using the XJTAG boundary scan development system to accelerate the development of its systems-on-chip designs for customers across the mobile phone, handheld, mobile computing and in-car electronics markets.

Kyzen, the world leading provider of environmentally responsible precision cleaning products for the electronics and high-technology manufacturing operations, will showcase two high performance cleaning products AQUANOX® A4241 and EXAKLEAN™ E5611, at the NEW show South Africa and will be supporting MyKay Tronics in their booth F11. The show is scheduled to take place March 9-10, at the Sandton Exhibition Centre in Johannesburg. Visitors are also invited to attend an informative presentation by Kyzen’s Fernando Rueda, entitled “The Science of Aqueous Cleaning & Matching the Cleaning Agent to the Soil and Equipment”.

Metal encoder discs and strips, for motion control, positioning and measurement, can now be produced in any volume, smaller and more accurately than ever before thanks to a new manufacturing processes pioneered by Precision Micro.

Leading EMS provider NBS (www.nbscorp.com) has today announced the acquisition of four VI Technology post-print automatic Solder Paste Inspection systems for its state of the art manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, California. Its deployment and use of structural test verification technology identified the value of adding the new equipment.

Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI), a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider to the world’s key original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and a member of the Ayala group of companies, posted a turnaround with US$10 million in consolidated net income after tax in 2009. This is a reversal of the net loss incurred in the previous year due to a gradual increase in revenues starting in the second half of 2009 and effective cost management. Also, the year 2008 was negatively affected by non-recurring, extraordinary costs.

Customers can now take a new, enhanced "virtual tour" of ZESTRON America’s facility in Manassas, VA from the comforts of their own computers by visiting www.zestron.com . The expanded, web-based tour is designed to showcase the capabilities offered to support ZESTRON’s customers around the globe. While certain areas are secure and could not be shown, visitors to the site will have total access and detailed views of all customer support facilities including the application technology center, which houses numerous state-of-the-art pieces of equipment from leading manufacturers.

Jabil Circuit, Inc. (NYSE: JBL), one of the world’s largest electronic manufacturing services (EMS) companies and leading vertically integrated mobility solutions provider, today announced a revolutionary new technology to seamlessly integrate touch screens into molded plastic cover lenses for greatly improved 3D mobile phone designs. This new integrated touch screen solution is the result of the close collaboration and co-development work between Jabil | Green Point, Jabil’s Mobility sector group, and JTouch, one of the top five touch screen manufacturers in the world.

In 2009, the NEPCON China series of exhibitions provided an authoritative, comprehensive trading platform for a less-than-buoyant electronics manufacturing industry. The shows helped meet industry growth requirements and have become the focal point of the entire electronics manufacturing community. As the world economy improves and electronics manufacturing begins to recover, NEPCON China 2010 will take place from April 20 to April 22, at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center.

The entirely new website will help customers find the right solution through a comprehensive offer description where all related information is not more than one click away. The homepage will be translated into an additional nine languages and is one of FlexLink’s most important communication platforms. It is aimed at facilitating the business dialogue between FlexLink and its customers.

Aqueous Technologies Corporation is heading for a new industry record with the winning of an ambitious 32 prestigious awards across their portfolio of innovative defluxing and stencil cleaning systems and cleanliness testers.

BPM Microsystems announces that it will display its latest Flashstream automated programming technology, the 3000FS, in distributor W.G. Electronics’ booth L12 in hall H4 at the upcoming Automaticon 2010 exhibition. The event is scheduled to take place March 23 – 26 in Warsaw, Poland.

Juki Corporation will showcase a range of leading products at the upcoming Virtual PCB, the industry’s only online tradeshow, scheduled to take place March 2-4, 2010 online at www.virtual-pcb.com.

Alta Manufacturing, a leading contract manufacturer specializing in NPI to pilot production of complex PCBs, announces that it successfully hosted its first technical event of 2010 on February 2. More than 40 guests were in attendance at the “Lunch & Learn” event.

The globally operating Preh GmbH with headquarters in Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany, develops and manufactures complex driver control and vehicle sensor systems as well as controllers and assembly systems for the automobile industry. What sets Preh apart is its manufacturing depth, which integrates its expertise in software, electronics, plastics and surface technologies into customer-specific solutions.

Nordson DAGE, the industry leader in bondtesting and X-ray inspection technology, is pleased to announce the completion of its new, entire X-ray system manufacturing line at its ISO 9001:2008 registered manufacturing plant based in Suzhou, China. Having originally been set up 4 years ago to provide sub-assemblies for Nordson DAGE’s successful and award winning, X-ray inspection systems, the Suzhou site is now able to provide complete, fully tested products from a manufacturing procedure that replicates those used at its ISO 9001:2008 headquarters’ facility in the UK.

With its new 2010 roadshow, SMT expert MYDATA is bringing a live demonstration of the benefits of solder jet printing – which is already helping more than 100 electronics manufacturers in the UK and Europe to enhance their profitability and competitive position – right to the door of prospective users.

Acculogic’s Manufacturing Test Systems Division, a global leader in electronics test and production solutions, announces that Bob Steel, North American Sales Manager, and Greg Leblonc, Application and Flying Probe Product Manager, will hold two seminars on advances in limited access testing. The first seminar is scheduled to take place Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Newton, MA, and the second on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. at the Hampton Inn in Farmington, CT.