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  • Tolerances and Dimensions for PCB Fabrication

    Tolerances and Dimensions for PCB Fabrication

    The tolerances decide what actually ships.  READ MORE...

  • How to Avoid 'Ghost Manufacturing'

    How to Avoid 'Ghost Manufacturing'

    Hidden subcontracting can expose providers to latent quality risks.  READ MORE...

  • Flex Circuits for Use in Catheters

    Flex Circuits for Use in Catheters

    Long, narrow flex circuits push manufacturing limits.  READ MORE...

  • A Guide to Flexible and Rigid-flex PCBs.

    A Guide to Flexible and Rigid-flex PCBs.

    What is a flex PCB?  READ MORE...

  • UHDI Solder Mask Considerations

    UHDI Solder Mask Considerations

    Can solder mask tolerance follow UHDI's lead?  READ MORE...

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Category: Caveat Lector

Mike Buetow

It’s always a pleasure to note success and achievement, none more so than when I get the honor of announcing to the PCB industry the latest inductees to the PCB Halls of Fame.

Read more: Hall of Inventors

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Mike Buetow

As it has many, many times before, Samsung, the world’s largest electronics company, announced in April that it is expanding.

No, that’s not exactly news, until you look where it intends to grow: Africa. And it’s going all in.

Read more: The Next China?

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Mike Buetow

Well that didn’t take long.

The ink was barely dry on Bare Board Group’s purchase of Hunter Technology’s printed circuit board fabrication operations before Hunter moved to reacquire the plant. And just like that, BBG’s grand experiment as the only major regional PCB distributor to offer internal manufacturing capability was done.

Read more: Once Again, in the ‘Hunt’

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Mike Buetow

Industry chatter has long said M&A activity among the major SMT placement companies is inevitable.

Yet, throughout the gut-wrenching downturn of 2001-02, the widespread pause in 2008-09, and the subsequent fallout starting last spring, nothing concrete took place.

Read more: Is there ‘Place’ for More SMT JVs?

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