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Industry News
enthone acquires Ormecon gmbh
Salary budgets for management positions
Enthone Inc., a business of Cookson
increased 3.9%, while hourly positions
Electronics, acquired Ormecon GmbH,
increased 3.3%. Benefit costs in 2006 were,
headquartered in Ammersbek, Germany.
on average, 16.8% of total wages, down
The acquisition strengthens Enthone’s
from 21.6% in 2004.
printed wiring board (PWB) surface fin-
The PCB and EMS industry wage and
ishes product portfolio. Ormecon GmbH
salary reports cost $450 for IPC members
is an emerging technology company with
and $950 for nonmembers. For additional
its primary focus being PWB final finishes.
information on these studies, contact Sree
Optimization of the combined operational,
Bhagwat, IPC market research manager, at
technical, and commercial organizations
330-677-5563.
www.ipc.org
worldwide is presently underway. www.cook-
sonelectronics.com,
www.ormecon-nanotech.com
pulse to increase component prices
Pulse, a Technitrol company, announced
elcoteq acquires philips’ flat panel
that it plans to increase prices of its compo-
TV manufacturing operation
nents at least 10% worldwide, depending
Integrated electronics manufacturing
on the product, due to the skyrocketing
services company Elcoteq SE signed and
costs of sub-components, consumables,
closed an agreement to purchase Philips’
energy, and labor. Worldwide distribution
flat panel TV (FTV) assembly operations
prices were increased in July and direct
in Juarez, Mexico. The deal includes a long
customer notifications are under way. www.
term cooperation agreement with Philips
Juki placement systems ‘pump up
to provide manufacturing services for its
the Volume’ at Beijing Olympics
pulseeng.com
Latin American FTV business and its PBS
Juki Corporation played a key role behind
(Philips Business Services) business in the
the digital brain that ‘pumped up the
Digi-Key, laird sign distribution
Americas and a long term cooperation
volume’ at the world’s biggest event—the
agreement
agreement with Funai Electric Co., Ltd to
Beijing Olympics, held August 8-24, 2008.
Digi-Key Corporation and Laird Tech-
provide manufacturing services to Funai’s
The sound of your name being
nologies, a designer and manufacturer of
FTV business in North America. www.
broadcast to thousands around a Beijing
customized, performance-critical products
elcoteq.com
Olympic Stadium as a 2008 Medal Win-
for wireless and other advanced electronics
ner must be hard to top. BiAmp Systems
applications, have entered into a global dis-
Falcon pcB group acquires incorporates Juki placement solutions
tribution agreement. The terms of this new
elite circuits in its production process and has been
distribution agreement enable Digi-Key to
UK-based PCB Group Falcon Holdings honored with supplying the specialized
fulfill the prototype as well as the produc-
has today announced its acquisition of audio sound systems being used to do just
tion quantity needs of its very diverse
Elite Circuits Ltd based in Cranbrook, that—transmitting perfect sound-offs that
customer base.
www.digikey.com
Kent. The acquisition adds further capacity catapulted this year’s Olympians into the
and capability to the group. Elite MD Bill history books.
New essemtec website
Pegram sees the acquisition as “providing
www.jas-smt.com
Essemtec, the Swiss manufacturer of
Elite with the added support and strength
production systems for electronics, recently
of the Falcon Group and an opportunity ipc releases salary reports for pcB,
refreshed its web presence. The new web-
to broaden our markets and increase our eMs industries
site offers valuable application reports
customer base.”
www.elitecircuits.com “2006-2007 IPC Wage Rate and Salary
presenting standard and customer-specific
Report for the PCB Industry” and “2006-
solutions and a ‘clipboard’ feature that al-
Kic appoints distributor for czech
2007 IPC Wage Rate and Salary Report
lows interesting products and applications
republic and slovakia Territories
for the Electronics Manufacturing Services
to be added to the user’s clipboard with a
KIC named AMTECH spol. s r.o. as its
(EMS) Industry” are now available from
click of the mouse.
www.essemtec.com
distributor in the Czech Republic and
IPC.
Slovakia. Backed by AMTECH’s 15 years
According to the studies, hourly wages
Valor introduces innovation circle
experience and 25 employees, KIC has
in the PCB industry have increased since
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd. launched
begun handling all service and support
2004. A similar trend can be seen in sala-
a new initiative, ‘The Valor Innovation
operations as a partner within the Czech
ried positions. Overall average projected or-
Circle,’ giving electronics manufacturers
and Slovakian markets since July. For ad-
ganizational salary budgets increased more
an opportunity to directly influence the
ditional information, contact AMTECH
than 3% from 2006 to 2007. In the EMS
development of software solutions for their
spol. s†r. o. at office Palackeho trida 153b,
industry, on average, U.S. and Canadian
industry. In its first stage, the program will
612 00 Brno, Czech Republic, phone: +420
EMS organizational salary budgets for sala-
only involve a handful of select companies.
541 225 215, E-mail:
amtech@amtech.cz.
ried positions increased in 2007 by 3.1%.
www.valor.com/InnovationCircle
www.amtech.cz,
www.kicthermal.com
8 – Global SMT & Packaging – September 2008
www.globalsmt.net
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