SAN JOSE – Zero Defects International has acquired a new facility here to meet growing demand for PCB test equipment.

LAS VEGAS – In his first public address, the new chief manufacturing officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology stressed new tax and business policies are at the heart of the reinvention of US manufacturing.

SAKAI, JAPAN -- Flex circuit manufacturer Sakai Denshi Kogyo has closed, according to published reports.

The printed circuit board fabricator shut down at the end of August, Dominique Numakura of DKN Research said in his weekly newsletter. It is not yet clear whether the company also closed its subsidiary in Thailand, which opened in June 2003.