DOWNERS GROVE, IL -- Dover Corp.'s first-quarter net earnings ticked up on a double-digit bump in overall demand.

CHONGQING, CHINA -- HP today signed a deal to build a high-volume printer manufacturing facility here in concert with contract printed circuit board manufacturer Foxconn.

MILPITAS, CA – Bliss Industries has opened a showroom and training center here.

The facility displays the firm’s entire line of ESD safe carts and racks, and Bliss says it will provide solutions to electronic assembly process, production, handling, and storage problems at the site.

For more information, contact mjamal@blissindustries.com.

HERTFORDSHIRE, UK – Peak Production Equipment has joined Goepel’s JTAG/boundary scan test alliance.

The global alliance program, known as GATE (Goepel Associated Technical Experts), develops and implements new products based on combined functional and JTAG/boundary scan test, as well as enhancements in the integration of JTAG/boundary scan products in existing test systems built by Peak.

This would permit a test and integration solution to be provided from one source.

Goepel is a provider of boundary scan related software and equipment.

NEW YORK -- Contract electronics assemblers are beginning to see demand stabilize but the end-markets could still see disruption, an industry analyst said last night.

IRVINE, CA – EMS firm Probe Manufacturing reported 57% revenue growth for its fourth quarter 2011compared to the same period of 2010.

HUMLEBAEK, DENMARK -- IKEA is breaking into the consumer electronics market with a new line of A/V systems, Reuters is reporting.

TAIPEI -- Hon Hai Precision today denied a report that the company is the focus of Apple's announced environmental audit of its Chinese suppliers.

MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES -- Filipino government agencies are actively recruiting Foxconn, hoping rising labor costs in China will encourage the world's largest EMS company to locate certain manufacturing here.

SYDNEY -- Redflow has put a joint manufacturing plant with Jabil in Singapore on hiatus, pending increased orders.

PARIS -- Asteelflash Group has formed a joint venture with electronics engineering company Adetel Group to offer a comprehensive package ranging from product design to turnkey manufacturing.

DORSET, UK – Blakell Europlacer said its UK distribution division has reported record figures for the first quarter of 2012, with sales exceeding £2.25 million, including 11 iineo pick-and-place machines.

First-quarter customers included both contract electronics manufacturers and OEMs, and were approximately 50% existing and 50% new clients.
 
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