HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS, UK – Smart Group will present a webinar next month on auditing a surface mount production line.

WOBURN, MA – IQLP has opened a materials innovation laboratory here to focus on developing materials and processes for electronics and energy storage applications.

HERNDON, VA – The electronics industry's top needs will be revealed in an Apr. 4 webinar sponsored by iNEMI.

BOUDRY, SWITZERLAND -- Cicor said preliminary 2012 revenue slipped year-over-year but operating profits rose on stronger second-half sales.

WUXI CITY, CHINA -- Jabil reportedly will invest RMB 620 million ($100 million) to build a robot-driven automation equipment plant in Wuxi City, in cooperation with the local government, according to local reports.

TAIPEI -- Foxconn will hire a reported 5,000 specialists here this year to design, build and program factory robots, company officials said.

SAN DIEGO – IPC Apex Expo 2013 brought 4,568 conference and exhibit attendees from 42 countries, compared to 4,915 in 2012.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Fu Chunyan of Beijing Railway Signal Co. won first place in the first IPC World Championship hand soldering competition. 

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nortech Systems today reported quarterly net income rose 17.5% year-over-year to $276,000, its highest mark in more than two years.

OYSTER BAY, NY -- The overall infrastructure video equipment market will grow an aggregate 35.7% to $3.8 billion dollars in 2017, up from $2.8 billion in 2012.

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Worldwide PC shipments will decline 1.3% this year on sluggish desktop PC sales, according to research firm IDC.

AUSTIN – Flip chip in package is expanding in mobile computing, especially smartphones and tablets. In units, the compound annual growth rate from 2011 to 2016 is almost 26%, says TechSearch International.