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ZURICH – Cicor Group is merging its Cicor Printed Circuit Boards and Cicor Microelectronics divisions into a single unit: Advanced Microelectronics & Substrates. The move comes after Microelectronics has failed to make significant progress over the past two years, the firm says.

NOTTINGHAM, UK – The 9th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing requests abstracts focused on process and materials development, design and software developments, supply chain and management issues, and novel applications of additive manufacturing.

BROMONT, CANADA – Cogiscan and Speedline Technologies have formed an OEM partnership under which Cogiscan will provide software to harvest and report traceability data from Speedline printers.

MINNEAPOLIS – IBM engineer Matt Kelly has been awarded the SMTA International 2013 Rich Freiberger Best of Conference for his presentation titled "Plasma Stencil Treatments: A Statistical Evaluation." The award was selected by attendees of the October conference.

NEENAH, WI -- Plexus appears to be weathering the impending loss of longtime top customer Juniper Networks. The EMS company's fourth-quarter operating margin was 5.1%, its highest mark since March 2008, and management expects margins to continue to top 5% in the coming quarters.

EL SEGUNDO, CA -- After a decline in the second quarter of 2013 and a tepid expansion in the third, demand for touch-screen panels used in notebook PCs is set to rebound to double-digit growth during the last three months of the year. Shipments of touch panels for notebooks will amount to 4.9 million sheets in the fourth quarter, up 10% from 4.4 million in the third quarter, according to data from IHS. This follows a marginal 2% increase in the third quarter and a 5% drop in the second.