SINGAPORE – Surface Mount Technology Holdings’s revenue for the three months ended June 30 was S$26.1 million ($21 million), down 61.1% year-over-year.

PROSPECT, CT – Forty-two percent of US OEMs surveyed indicate they expect to have more outsourcing projects/purchases in the next year than in the past twelve months. This is up 3% over the previous year and up 11% from the 2010 Design-2-Part Manufacturing Trends Survey.

DULUTH, GA -- Seika Machinery has relocated its Atlanta office and demo center, doubling the size of the former location.

SACRAMENTO, CA -- The California Department of Toxic Substance Control has issued a formal draft for comment of its Safer Consumer Products regulation.

DEHLI, INDIA -- Some 300 million Indians are without power today as no fewer than six states there lost power for an extended period of time.

HONG KONG -- Global economic turmoil has seriously impacted growth in the PC market and it will remain sequentially weak leading up to the launch of Windows 8, whose initial benefit will mainly be satisfying delayed demand from the third quarter.

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Worldwide mobile phone shipments grew 1% year-over-year in the second quarter as Samsung and Apple solidified their dominance over the smartphone market.

TORONTO -- Celestica today announced an agreement to acquire D&H Manufacturing, a manufacturer of precision machined components and assemblies.

TORONTO -- Celestica today reported second-quarter revenue rose but warned that the wind down of its RIM business would push the world's fourth largest EMS company into negative growth for the year.

APPLETON, WI — Plexus has laid off 116 employees here due to lower orders, a company spokesperson says.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – June North American printed circuit board shipments decreased 6.6%, and orders dropped 2.7% year-over-year, says IPC.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – A PDF copy of the final draft for industry review of IPC-4903, A Guideline for Defining "Low-Halogen" Electronic Products, is available for review and comment.