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BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC bestowed its highest corporate honors on Raytheon Co. and DuPont yesterday, citing the firms for their contributions to the trade group.
LAS VEGAS – Juki executive Bob Black received the IPC President’s Award at Apex this week.
The award is presented to IPC members who have exhibited ongoing leadership in IPC, and have made significant contributions to the association and the electronics interconnect industry.
President and CEO of Juki Automation Systems, Black has nearly 35 years of senior executive management experience in the circuit board and semiconductor industries. He has provided leadership over the past 20 years to the industry and IPC through the Surface Mount Council, the Surface Mount Equipment Manufacturers Association steering committee and the IPC Apex Trade Show Subcommittee.
Black is a current IPC board member, serving a four-year term.
LAS VEGAS – Circuits Assembly yesterday announced the winners of its 2010 Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and Electronics Assembly Equipment, Materials and Software suppliers.
LAS VEGAS -- Heraeus will cease solder production at its North American manufacturing facilities, CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY has learned.
IPC-A-600H features 95 new and updated photos and illustrations, for a total of 326. The standard offers expanded coverage on topics such as solder mask coverage, etchback, plated-hole wall integrity, via fill, and flexible circuits. It also addresses copper cap-plating of vias and copper-wrap plating.
Criterion for how much a flex circuit can be bent or folded is now available. The document addresses coverlays sometimes used to protect flex circuits.
IPC-6012C addresses determining how many boards and/or test coupons to check. A document used for specifying circuit boards, IPC-6012 details frequency of inspection, instructing how many panels must be examined within a production lot for a given performance class.
Before the completion of the latest revisions, the standards’ next series of enhancements were being planned, including finer geometries, high-density PCBs, the proximity of microvias and stacked microvias that go from one layer to another.
TEMPE, AZ – US manufacturing grew in March for the eighth consecutive month, with the PMI registering 59.6%, up 3.1 percentage points, says the Institute for Supply Management.
CHONGQING, CHINA – Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) will recruit more than 6,000 workers in the next six months here at its new PC manufacturing factory, according to published reports.
The firm also plans to expand the plant`s workforce to some 10,000 by 2011, all to accommodate a forecast annual output of more than 10 million notebook PCs.
The company also is pushing its suppliers to move into Chongqing, in an effort to vertically integrate a PC supply chain there. In the future, 80% of the facility’s bill of materials will be sourced locally, chairman Terry Gou said.
TAIPEI – Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) said it agreed to buy 90.1% of Sony Corp.'s Slovakian LCD TV factory.
No financial terms were disclosed.
The firm said it would purchase the plant through its Singapore unit, Foxconn Singapore Pte.
NONTHABURI, THAILAND -- EMS firm SVI Public Co. reported 2009 revenue fell 9.2% to 6.47 billion baht. Net income fell 10% to 582 million baht.
ROSWELL, GA – Rehm Thermal Systems will begin offering product-specific process characterizations in the Americas, the company said today.
Its applications center here, opened last year, is designed for customers to perform reflow process characterizations on their own products, using Rehm’s condensation reflow soldering systems.
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