PHOENIX -- Suntron Corp., the EMS supplier, today announced
that its application to transfer its stock listing to the
Nasdaq SmallCap Market has been accepted. The company will be traded under the ticker name SUNN.
GREENVILLE, SC -- Kemet Corp. and Taiyo
Yuden will cross-market each other's lines of passive components, furthering the longstanding relationship between the two companies.
In a statement released today, the firms said pricing will be
"independent and competitive," a possible nod to anti-trust laws.
SAN JOSE -- The 90-day moving average orders of North American-based
manufacturers of semiconductor equipment was $1.12 billion, up 11% from July and good for a book-to-bill ratio of
1.05.
The 90-day average of worldwide billings was $1.07
billion, down 1% sequentially and 29% from a year ago,
according to the trade group SEMI.
PORTSMOUTH, RI –International Manufacturing Services Inc., a manufacturer of thick film resistors and substrates, named Zully Alidina and RF Spectrumits representative in Canada.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The SMTA has issued a call for papers for the Medical Electronics Symposium. The event will be held in Minneapolis in the spring of 2006.
The deadline for abstracts is Nov. 4.
Medical electronics is worth some $50 billion and is one of the few industries still based largely in the U.S. The conference will explore medical electronics devices, components, packaging and assembly for major categories such as: diagnostics, imaging, monitoring, life support, implantable products, personal monitor/delivery devices, and disposable electronics.
While each industry segment has different assembly needs and volumes ranging from one unit per month to millions per year, the conference will explore the differences and similarities of the production lines and operations. A key focus of the conference will be emerging and future advances in medical electronics as impacted by advances in semiconductors, sensors, microfluidics, optoelectronics, MEMS and nanotechnology.
Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent to conference coordinator Melissa Serres at melissa@smta.org.
TEMPE, AZ -- EMS provider Three-Five Systems Inc. today
filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The petition is part of
ongoing actions taken by the company to sell off its assets and
subsidiaries.