SANTA ANA, CA -- Express Manufacturing Inc. has added a fifth building to its campus here.

CONKLIN, NY – Universal Instruments says its global market share grew  4% in 2012, boosted by double-digit gains in North America.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nortech Systems has promoted Richard G. Wasielewski president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.

ST. LOUIS -- Viasystems Group today reported fourth-quarter sales were up a tick on acquisitions but down 16.4% sequentially on a broad-based drop in demand.

MILPITAS, CA – Flextronics is investing millions in a Product Innovation Center here, where it will explore technologies ranging from 3D plastic printing to high-end packaging.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — A team of engineers from Agilent, Andrew Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent have won the best paper award for the upcoming IPC Apex conference.

HONG KONG -- PKC will establish NPI centers in Estonia and Brazil as it seeks to expand its customer offerings to every major manufacturing region. Separately, the contract electronics assembler announced it would close its operations in Ireland and that company president and chief executive Matti Hyytiäinen would relocate to a newly established subsidiary here on an interim basis to help grow business in Asia and China.

BILLINGSTAD, NORWAY -- Kitron today reported fourth-quarter revenue rose 4.4% to NOK 462.4 million ($84.5 million) on higher demand for marine end-products.

CHICAGO -- Boeing engineers investigating problems with the new Dreamliner 787's batteries say the short circuits might have been caused by metal whiskers.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Manufacturing companies should think in terms of “right shoring,” not off-shoring or reshoring, according to John Shook, CEO and chairman of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute.

NEW YORK -- Revenues from outsourced medical electronics manufacturing reached $16.56 billion in 2012 and are expected to grow 11% compounded annually through 2019, a research firm says.

ROME, NY -- The ESD Association today announced the release of a pair of standards covering electrostatic discharge testing and nomenclature.