Circuits Assembly - December 2008 - (Page 12) NEWS People EFD International named Philippe Mysson business development manager, solder paste Europe. He holds a master’s in chemistry from Dijon (France) University and has 24 years in solder manufacturing with Thomson Passive Components. roger Taylor has been named senior vice president Group Operations of Elcoteq. He has held senior operational management positions within Nokia and Motorola. Indium Corp. promoted David McKee to key and direct accounts manager in Europe, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with a focus on solder products. Mydata named Pelle Wennerlund managing director in the China region. He has China experience with a trading company and with plastics machinery manufacturer Krauss Maffei, where he focused on EMS/electronics and automotive. Axiom Electronics named Keya Bhattacharyya Six Sigma Manager. Dr. Bhattacharyya previously worked as a quality/ reliability contractor for Celerity, Planar, and Flextronics. Datron Dynamics named William “Bill” King president. He has been with the company since 1996 and in manufacturing for 25 years. Kester promoted Stephen Santangelo operations manager in North America, responsible for production and quality of solder paste products. The 30-year Kester veteran was most recently Asian Operations Manager for the solder paste business unit. of SMTC (smtc.com), is involved with the new company, as is Jerry Panos, the former CEO of MassTech and Neo Nano. The new company (newviewems.com) is located at the former Nexus Electronics site on New Boston St. in Woburn, MA. This development marks an end to the various incarnations of Neo Nano. Last November, Titan Global Holdings purchased the assets of Nexus Nano, including the former Nexus Electronics site in Woburn and the Nexus operations in Brandon, VT. The division was renamed Neo EMS shortly thereafter. However, Titan quickly decided to sell the division. The Neo EMS facility in Vermont was closed Aug. 13. The site’s answering service references callers to Titan Global Holdings’s corporate headquarters in Richardson, TX. Calls to Titan’s headquarters were not returned. Nexus had revenues of $12 million in the period ended June 30, 2007. Titan has not reported the group’s revenues for fiscal 2008. – Mike Buetow Industry Industrial Electronics Services Expands in TN GRAY, TN – EMS provider Industrial Electronics Services Inc. (iesgray.com) will break ground this month on a 40,000 sq. ft. building, the company’s fourth building. The firm employs 67 workers and projects 2008 sales of $6.5 million, up 44%. It expects to hire up to 100 more workers over the next three years. The company, which performs smaller runs of SMT products and various box-build and other services, recently was named a certified supplier by Siemens Medical Solutions. – Mike Buetow Fine Line Stencil Opens Memphis Plant COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Fine Line Stencil (finelinestencil.com), a leading manufacturer of stencil products, has opened a stencil manufacturing facility in Memphis, the company said today. The site will meet demand for quickturn stencils, and gives the company the ability to ship stencils up to midnight Central time. “The quickturn demands on the contract manufacturing industry are increasing rapidly and our Memphis facility gives us the ability to accept and ship stencil orders much later in the day,” said Robert Dervaes, vice president of technology and engineering, in a press release. Fine Line Stencil is a division of FCT Assembly. – Mike Buetow MPC Files for Bankruptcy NAMPA, ID – MPC Corp. (mpccorp.com), one of the world's largest PC makers, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has been delisted from the NYSE and says it doesn't expect equity holders to receive any distributions in conjunction with the bankruptcy cases. MPC has played in the corporate and government PC space for 17 years. In October 2007, it purchased the professional business unit of Gateway. That acquisition may have been the root of MPC's downfall, however. In a statement, chief executive John Yeros blamed "unforeseen issues surrounding the integration of the Gateway Professional business unit, combined with adapting the operations of our manufacturing partner to additional customized requirements have proven more challenging than originally anticipated, and have contributed to extensive losses. We evaluated all strategic alternatives, and concluded the filing was necessary at this time." MPC outsourced production to Flextronics (flextronics.com), but the latter terminated the deal in mid November, according to a report in the Sioux City Journal. The company has laid off more than 400 workers in the past month, including more than 300 in mid November and has "only a few employees left" at its Nampa site, according to published reports. However, Yeros added company's operations are expected to continue during reorganization efforts. – Mike Buetow 12 Circuits Assembly DECEMBER 2008 circuitsassembly.com http://www.smtc.com http://www.newviewems.com http://www.iesgray.com http://www.finelinestencil.com http://www.mpccorp.com http://www.flextronics.com http://www.circuitsassembly.com
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