Carpinteria, CA - NuSil Technology, a manufacturer of silicone-based materials, has opened its first technical support office in Asia.
The office, located in Penang, Malaysia, will specialize in optoelectronics and electronic packaging, served by the company’ s Lightspan products and its low-outgassing electronic packaging materials respectively.
T.Y. Lim is the application engineer heading the office.
According to a press release, the company has noticed recent growth in the Asian optoelectronics industry.
COPENHAGEN -- Lego, the maker of the ubiquitous
building blocks and other toys,will outsource most of its production to
Flextronics over the next three years, with the EMS
provider taking over some Lego plants. Other production will be moved to Flextronics’
plants in Eastern Europe and Mexico.
No financial terms were immediately disclosed.
The move breaks new ground for Flextronics. "It's not electronics, it's plastic molding,"
said Alexander Blanton, an analyst at Ingalls & Synder told TheStreet.com."This is the first major piece of business that
I have seen of that nature."
FRANKFURT -- Consolidation continued in the telecom space as Nokia and Siemens announced the combining of heir mobile-network operations to create a 50:50 joint venture with annual revenue of about $20 billion.
The new entity will be called Nokia Siemens Networks and is expected to be finalized by year-end, pending regulatory approval.