Camdenton, Missouri, October 20, 2021 – A deep freeze in February burst a pipe at LeeMAH Electronics manufacturing facility in Texas. This natural disaster was turned into an opportunity to rearrange the production floor for better manufacturing process flow. It also led to the decision to install a new Electrovert VectraES wave soldering machine to replace the existing selective soldering system. The new in-line wave soldering machine allows for much higher throughput at a better overall cost to LeeMAH to keep up with their increasing production demand. An added benefit is that the new wave machine allowed LeeMAH to switch to a new solder alloy. With the clear return on investment realized at the Texas plant, the plan is to also have the California plant switch over to the new solder alloy as well.

Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is to survive.

NASHVILLE – October 2021 – Magnalytix, providing real-time reliability solutions for electronics manufacturing, announces that it will launch a new educational campaign on its media platforms with videos regarding how surface insulation resistance (SIR) testing works and why it is so valuable.

ATLANTA – The U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced five new substance restrictions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), creating significant obligations for companies that do business in the U.S.