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DES PLAINES, IL —Kester will continue its lead-free seminar series, “Project 2005: Achieving Lead-free RoHS Assembly,” on July 26 in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
The seminar is designed to assist in the successful transition to lead-free soldering and RoHS compliancy. It will address key lead-free assembly issues and give technical information to transition in a timely fashion.
It will present the various complexities of assemblies and how to comply with the European WEEE and RoHS Directives. This seminar offers complete information and case studies to make these products reliable with lead-free while being RoHS compliant.
Topics will include: lead-free and RoHS directive overview; supply changes and procurement issues; board/component requirements; lead-free alloy selection for SMT, wave and rework; lead-free wave, and SMT process optimization; impact of dual systems; BGA rework practices; hand soldering process changes; lead-free RoHS reliability; field rework and training; and training and documentation.
For more info. on technical content, contact Peter Biocca at (972) 390-1197 or pbiocca@kester.com; for registration details, contact Theresa Rudnick at (847) 699-5580 or visit www.kester.com.
MILPITAS, CA – Solectron Corp. will purchase McDATA Corp.’s Lumberton, NJ, manufacturing operations and assets. The deal is expected to close this week.
McDATA, a provider of storage networking solutions, obtained the operations as part of the company's recent acquisition of CNT.
GREENVILLE, SC -- Kemet Corp., a provider of passive components, will cut 150 jobs, mostly in the U. S., and take a charge against earnings of $4 million in the June quarter.
The restructuring will result in annual savings of approximately $8 million, the company said.
MILPITAS, CA -- Solectron Corp., the world's fourth largest provider of electronics manufacturing services, reported a third-quarter loss of $64.1 million on sales of $2.6 billion.
For the quarter ended May 31, revenue dropped 14%. Last year the company reported net income of $21.4 million on revenues of $3.03 billion.
NEW DEHLI -- Flextronics has narrowed to three its list of possible sites for a new assembly plant in India, local media reported today. The world's largest contract electronics manufacturing firm has settled on Bangalore, Pondicherry and Chennai, according to CyberMedia News.
The report said Flextronics is "currently doing due diligence" for the siting, with details expected "in a couple of weeks."
