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DANDERYD, SWEDEN -- Note AB, a top 50 global EMS company, today named Knut Pogost president and CEO.

REYNOSA, MEXICO – DEK has teamed with equipment representative and stencil franchisee InterLatin to open a stencil manufacturing facility here.

LAS VEGAS – IPC is accepting abstracts for next year’s Apex technical conference.

GUADALAJARA -- Jabil Circuit has hired 4,000 workers in Mexico as it ramps production of the RIM Blackberry, according to published reports.

MINNEAPOLIS – A request for abstracts has been issued for the 15th Annual Pan Pacific Symposium.

BRUSSELS -- As of June 1, all EU suppliers are now required to comply with a raft of substance restrictions under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation.

AYLESBURY, UK – Dage Precision Industries has moved its group headquarters to a 36,000 sq. ft. building here that includes a production area twice the size of its old facility.

BEAVERTON, OR -- Pentagon EMS, a supplier of tooling and fixtures for electronics assembly, has acquired nearby Proco Manufacturing. Terms were not disclosed.

TEMPE, AZ -- The nation's top indicator of purchasing activity rose 2.7 points in May to its highest level in eight months as the manufacturing sector slowly emerges from the recession bottom.

LOS ALTOS, CA -- First-quarter medical electronics revenues fell 2.6%, but an economic recovery along with federal stimulus should bring US equipment production growth to 9.7% in 2011.

MILTON, NY -- Sono-Tek reported annual sales for the year ended Feb. 28 rose 12.5% year-over-year to $6.4 million. The net loss was $1.5 million, down from net income of $11,205 a year ago.

SAN JOSE – The 90-day moving average sales of semiconductors rose to $15.6 billion worldwide in April, down 25% year-over-year but up 6.4% sequentially.