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HONG KONG – Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, will increase prices for its epoxy resins in Asia Pacific.

Effective July 1, the firm will increase the prices for its liquid, liquid blend, solid, solid solution, brominated epoxy resin and epoxy novolac resin products by $100/MT.

The increase will be implemented immediately as contracts allow.

KENT, UK – April semiconductor sales were up 15.6% sequentially, says Future Horizons. March numbers were down 7.6%.

April showed the best sequential growth since the same month in 1955, according to the research firm’s recent report.

SHENZHEN – Workers at JDS Uniphase's manufacturing facility here are resuming operations following a reported walkout, according to company sources. The plant is scheduled to be acquired by Sanmina-SCI in the next two months, and reports held the workforce sought certain incentives as part of the deal.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Jabil Circuit Inc. today reported fiscal third-quarter 2009 net revenue of $2.6 billion, down 16.1% year-over-year.

Net loss for the quarter was $28.8 million compared to net income of $38.4 million for the same quarter last year.

EL SEGUNDO – First-quarter global PC shipments amounted to 66.5 million units, down 8.1% year-over-year, and a 14.4% drop sequentially, says iSuppli Corp.

MARLBOROUGH, MA – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted DownStream Technologies a patent for certain technology covering the automation of PCB documentation in an electronic release package file.

The patent is related to technologies in DownStream’s BluePrint-PCB software.

The patent further covers the core technology contained in the BluePrint-PCB shape engine, which is configured to display simultaneous views of a PCB CAD database; the use of reconfigurable objects that display different views of the CAD database; the technology behind BluePrint’s template elements that can be customized and linked to the CAD database, and technology that automates engineering change orders (ECO) in the CAD database as reflected in the release package.

BluePrint-PCB was released in 2006 for automating the creation of comprehensive electronic PCB documentation.