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SAN JOSE – Shocking Technologies opened its expanded production facility, unveiling a manufacturing plant for voltage switchable dielectric material.

The lab and equipment will be used to develop, simulate and produce the company’s nanocomposite Xtstatic 100 VSD material. Xstatic is embedded in PCBs or semiconductor packaging to increase a product’s protection against harmful ESD events.

The facility is capable of producing material to equip more than 200 million cellphones or other similar products a year, the firm says.

Shocking Technologies’ manufacturing line is run by a site-wide manufacturing execution system that maintains product genealogy and component traceability.

The City of San Jose and its redevelopment agency made an investment of $500,000 toward capital equipment.

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TAIWAN – Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board reported November revenues of $110.5 million, up 6.1% sequentially, reaching the highest monthly level so far in 2010.

For the first 11 months of the year, revenues were $1.09 billion, up 34.3% year-over-year.

Sales resulted from strong demand in smartphones and consumer electronics for HDI boards and other PCBs, the firm says.

NPC expects December revenues to be lower as a result of seasonal factors. Overall fourth-quarter revenues are expected to be flat or slightly higher than the previous quarter.

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The SMTA has elected members of the board of directors: Michelle Ogihara, Seika Machinery; David Steele, Da-Tech Corp.; and Brian Toleno, Ph.D, Henkel Corp. were elected to the planning committee.

Marie Cole, IBM, was reelected and now serves as vice president of technical programs.

Those remaining on the board include president, Dan Baldwin, Engent; VP technical programs, Marie Cole, IBM; VP communications, Tom Forsythe, Kyzen Corp.; VP membership, Roy Starks, Libra Industries; treasurer, Hal Hendrickson, Nordson Dage; and secretary, Dr. Kola Akinade, Cisco Systems.

Planning Committee members include chair, Jeff Kennedy, Celestica; Dr. Denis Barbini, Universal Instruments Corp.; and Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Indium Corp.

Departing directors include Bill Barthel, Plexus Corp.; Joe Belmonte, ITM Consulting; and Dr. Laura Turbini, Research in Motion.

The new term began at SMTAI in late October. 

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TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics will boost its investment in its components and PCB sites in China by an additional $349 million and will issue a series of bonds to pay off debt, according to reports. Read more ...

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HONG KONG -- The latest incarnation of the HKPCA Show opened this week in Shenzhen amid expressions of confidence in the industry’s future from leading industry figures.

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HERNDON, VA — A new white paper reports on the progress of major OEMs toward removing halogenated flame retardants and PVC from desktop and laptop PCs.

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