BANGKOK – EMS provider Fabrinet has completed construction of a 300,000 sq. ft. addition to its Pinehurst optical manufacturing complex near Bangkok, and has commenced operations there.
PARIS – ASTEEL will acquire Flash Electronics in an all-stock deal, forming an EMS company with some $750 million in annual sales, the companies announced today.
YAVNE, ISRAEL – Digitaltest will integrate its design-to-test software with Valor Computerized Systems’ process engineering software, the companies said today. In a press release, the companies said Digitaltest’s C-LINK tool will be built into Valor’s vPlan software.
The integration is said to deliver a manufacturing process definition to the production floor through a lean dataflow, and automatically generate machine-specific libraries on demand.
WESTLAKE, OH – Nordson Corp., parent company to Asymtek, EFD, Dage and YesTech, reported record fourth quarter sales of $290.8 million, a 20.4% increase year-over-year.