CircuiTree - January 2009 - (Page 41) AT&S eliminated 452 positions in Leoben-Hinterberg; production capacity was reduced from 215,000 m2 PCB area to 130,000 m2. Brandner PCB added an automatically adjusted soldering line. Chin-Poon suspended expansion plans for its Changshu, China, plant. Cibo-Print appointed Tommi Riskula sales engineer, Päivi Kauranen quality manager, and Anitta Koivisto process manager. Cicor Technologies CEO Lucas Grolimund and chair of the board Erwin Steinman resigned. Colonial Circuits added an Excellon 129 drill in Fredericksburg, Va. Electronic Interconnect Technology: • Received Illinois governor’s Pollution Prevention award; and • Launched www.eiconnect.com for its customers offering online quotes and subsequent ordering; order tracking in real time and quick order/bid placement. Exception PCB: • Entered a four-year R&D project regarding its megasonic plating process with two U.K. universities; and • Received a USD 1.4 m/yr flex-rigid PCB contract from Video Jet. Firan Technology Group is building a manufacturing facility within the Tianjin (China) Airport Industry Park. GDR Two filed Chapter 11. Gorilla Circuits (San Jose, Calif.) purchased two Schmoll Maschinen model LM-6 high-speed drilling systems from Bürkle North America’s FabFour Group. GPV laid off 130 workers in its PCB and Mechanics divisions in Glostrup, Tarm, and Horsens, Denmark. Incap received EUR 2 million share capital investment from Finnfund to finance Indian investments and working capital. Merix: • Completed its Huiyang, China, expansion; and • Received MIL-PRF-31032 military certification at its San Jose, Calif., factory. MFLEX acquired Pelikon for USD 10.7 million. RUWEL acquired a PCB factory in Kunshan, China, with 500,000 m2 annual capacity for multilayer and HDI circuits. It plans to start shipping boards from the facility by March 2009. Shirai Denshi opened a new China subsidiary. Chart 5 Stilwell Baker opened a new design center in Vancouver, Wash. Sunstone Circuits named Diane Economaki director of marketing. Thomson sold its Angers, France, PCB plant to a French EMS provider. TTM received a PCB and PCBA contract for the Army Thermal Weapon Sight Program from BAE Systems. Uniflex Technology acquired Boardtek Electronics’ Yangzhou FPCB plant in China for TWD 180 million (USD 5.41 million) and Boardtek took a 10 percent stake in Uniflex through private placement of TWD 130 million. Unimicron froze its 2009 capex. Unitech Printed Circuit Board subsidiary Escort Instruments was acquired by Agilent. Vogt electronic eliminated 250 jobs in Obernzell/Erlau and Lehesten, Germany. Chart 6 Materials and Process Equipment Atotech opened a new European TechCenter for corrosion protection applications in Trebur, Germany, and plans to open additional TechCenters in Taiwan, the Czech Republic, India, and Italy in 2009. Automa-Tech suspended all payments to creditors and started judicial recovery. Cadence Design Systems: • Appointed Chi-Ping Hsu senior VP of R&D for Implementation Products Group, Nimish Modi senior VP of R&D for Front End Group, and Tom Cooley senior VP of Worldwide Field Operations; • Eliminated 625 full-time positions (12 percent of global workforce); and • Expanded its ActiveParts online component data solution for PCB design teams. Carl Zeiss set a new record resolution benchmark of 2.4 Å (0.24 nm) for scanning electron and ion microscopy. Cobar: • Celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding in Breda, Holland; and • Promoted Manfred Bult to COO in Europe. Dow Chemical named Pierre Brondeau head of Rohm and Haas Advanced Materials division. Dover named Robert Livingston CEO. circuitree.com • January 2009 41 http://www.eiconnect.com http://www.circuitree.com
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