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[ Market Outlook ] Bruce; and • Former vice president Claes Winzell was appointed president and chief executive ofﬁcer of EIS by Semcon. Foxconn/ Hon Hai: • Donated CNY 60 million to Sichuan, China, earthquake victims; • Received Investor of the Year 2007 award in the Czech Republic; • Is building a 32,000 m2 assembly facility for HP PCs in St. Petersburg, Russia; • Is setting up a cell phone plant in Broward County, Fla.; • Is building a 3,000 worker R&D center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; • Is establishing Hong Hai University, an EMBA school for its future executives; • Is entering the contract notebook PC business in 2009; and • Was ranked number ﬁve Among Top 1000 Firms in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in 2007 by CommonWealth. Fujitsu Telecommunications is moving its PCB manufacturing from Birmingham, U.K., to Texas. Global Innovation selected Cimnet Systems, a Consona ERP solution, for streamlining operations. Hormann Electronics, Cork, Ireland, entered into receivership. IEC Electronics acquired wire harness assembler Val-U-Tech, Victor, NY. Incap: • Named Sami Mykkänen president and chief executive ofﬁcer; • Is building a new plant in Tumkur, India; and • Entered into an EMS agreement with Finland’s Slot Machine Association. Jabil: • Added USD 150 million to its existing 8.25 percent senior notes in the private placement market; and • Received an EMS contract for Location Based Technologies’ PocketFinder. Kimball Electronics will build a PLN 70 million (USD 32 million) Polish factory for automotive and medical electronic components. Kitron received new orders from Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace for military RadioLink worth NOK 28.2 million. Kovio moved its headquarters to a 95,000 ft2 Milpitas, Calif., facility—supporting volume production of printed silicon electronics. LaBarge received a USD 1.6 million PCBA contract for military radar systems from Lockheed Martin and a USD 12 million contract from Northrop Grumman for its MESA radar system. MSI: • Entered the automobile electronics market by acquiring Jovialtek; and • Talked with Flextronics regarding the sale of its OEM motherboard business—allowing it to focus on its branded business. PartnerTech and Biotage will manufacture instruments for DNA analysis and microwave synthesis. PartnerTech’s customer center in Åtvidaberg obtained medical device manufacturing accreditation in Japan. Plexus secured a manufacturing contract for Irisys’ thermal imagers. Prism Electronics received a PCBA order from ERB for rail signaling equipment for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project. Radius Group Sweden is investing EUR 1 million in a new PCB assembly department for power supplies in Karlskrona, Sweden, after management brought back production from its EMS providers. Rommtech-3S (Rommens and Security Smart Systems joint venture) opened a CEM plant in Vratsa, Bulgaria. Sanmina-SCI: • Will close its plant in Forserum, Sweden, in fall 2008; and • Former workers in Guntersville, Ala., became eligible for extended unemployment beneﬁts from the U.S. Labor Department. TT electronics condensed ﬁve global EMS businesses into one integrated manufacturing division. TVAB is constructing a new plant in Poland to open September 2008. Winland Electronics: • Elected Thomas Goodmanson chair; and • Dale Nordquist, senior vice president of sales and marketing, resigned to become president and chief executive ofﬁcer of Zareba. ■ Walt Custer and Jonathan Custer-Topai’s column is sponsored by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials. Custer Consulting Group provides market research, business analysis, and forecasts for PCB fabrication and assembly, passive components, semiconductors, and the electronic equipment end markets. You can reach Walt by phone at 707-785-1777, email at walt@ custerconsulting.com, or visit his Web site: www.custerconsulting.com. 5 www.circuitree.com Top reasons to visit Valuable information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere in the world Find your favorite article in archives and forward to a friend Can’t ﬁnd what you’re looking for? Use our searchable Buyer’s Guides Easy access to the latest breaking news in your industry Get more information online by subscribing to our FREE enewsletters circuitree.com • July 2008 43 http://www.custerconsulting.com http://www.circuitree.com http://circuitree.com

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