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[ Market Outlook ] Chart 5 an Excellon 689 Drill. AT&S appointed Christian Fleck technical manager of its Austrian (Fehring, Klagenfurt, and Leoben) facilities. Dynamic & Proto Circuits ordered two Schmoll LM-6 systems from Bürkle’s FabFour Machinery Alliance. Dynamic PCB applied for a listing on the Taiwan stock exchange. Elvia PCB Group received PRI NADCAP aviation certiﬁcation for its Coutances, France, plant. Firan Technology Group signed a USD 12 million, three-year agreement with Honeywell to supply complex, high reliability printed circuits. FUBA Tunisia is spending EUR 10 million to increase automation and construct a new innerlayer plant. InterconX-PCB appointed Les Morgan sales manager, Europe. ITL Circuits (Markham, Ontario, Canada) installed an Orbotech Newprint Maxi inkjet legend printer. Kestrel International Circuits received the Innovation Award from Tyco Electronics. Leicester Circuits reopened its plant and rehired some of its former staff in East Goscote, England. It had ceased operations in May due to a lost multimillion GBP contract in October 2007. Mektron developed transparent FPCs to commercialize by yearend 2008. Merix: • Received a USD 55 million asset-based loan from Bank of America Business Capital; and • Installed an XACT PCB Gemini-X Linear Plus registration system in Huiyang, China. Mitsui Mining & Smelting developed a chip-on-ﬁlm FPC. Nan Ya PCB expects its utilization rate to increase to 95 percent in Q3 FY 08. Oki Electric Cable developed the “industry’s ﬁrst FPC for threedimension wiring.” RUWEL acquired NCS in India. Shennan Circuit is building a CNY 700 million, 110,000 m2 green PCB plant in China. SOMACIS pcb industries sold 20 percent of its company capital to private equity fund “Fondo Mezzogiorno,” managed by Sanpaolo IMI investments located in Manfredonia (Foggia), Italy (not San Paulo, Chart 6 Brazil as previously stated). Spirit Circuits hired former Leicester Circuits managers Les Round and Scott Williams. Taiﬂex Scientiﬁc aims to double solar-module backsheet sales to NTD 100 million by year 2008. Titan Global Holdings formed Titan Electronics Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Titan Electronics, to target the Asian PCB market. Toyo Kogyo ﬁled for bankruptcy. Unitech Printed Circuit Board opened its new solar cell plant in Yilan, eastern Taiwan. Würth Elektronik received PCB Supplier of the Year 2007 award from BMK professional electronics GmbH. Materials and Process Equipment EU cleared TBBPA for use in electrical equipment. Aeroﬂex introduced its 4520 standalone Flying Probe System. Agilent Technologies acquired assets of Unitech Printed Circuit Board’s subsidiary Escort Instruments. Asahi Kasei Electronics completed its dry ﬁlm photoresist manufacturing plant in China, expanding its total capacity to 370 million m2/year. AVX was named 2008 Resistor/Capacitor Commodity Supplier of the Year by Rockwell Collins. Cadence Design offered to acquire Mentor Graphics for USD 16/share. CIMTEK Suzhou, China, doubled its staff. Dage Precision Industries’ general manager and national sales manager Hal Hendrickson was elected to the SMTA board of directors. Dai Nippon Screen commercialized a new AOI machine, PI-9000, with fast processing speeds for HDI semiconductor substrates. Dover promoted Robert Livingston to president and chief operating ofﬁcer. Dow Chemical increased prices in July by as much as 25 percent due to surging energy costs. DuPont Electronic Technologies increased prices in June by up to 20 percent due to rising raw material, transportation, and energy costs. ESI: • Secured its ﬁrst order for its newest dual-beam, high-power micromachining Model 5800 laser system; and circuitree.com • August 2008 37 http://circuitree.com

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