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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 25 August 2009

LARGO, FL – Greg Meindl has joined the sales force at Bare Board Group Inc. He will manage sales efforts in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.

Meindl brings over 25 years of extensive experience in the PCB industry. Prior to joining BBG, he had been president of Bartlett Manufacturing for the last seven years.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 20 August 2009

WHITE PLAINS, NY – WHX Corp., the parent company of Arlon Electronic Materials, reported second-quarter revenue fell 28.2% from last year to $141.4 million. For the quarter ended June 30, net loss was $4.1 million, compared to a net income of $5.3 million last year.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 19 August 2009

RICHARDSON, TX – Terence Collier, president of CVInc and technical consultant for Air Products, will present a BPS product demonstration on August 26.

“How BPS Can Help You Lower Your ENIG Process Costs and Reduce Cu in Wastewater” will take place at CVInc.

BPS-172 is designed to help lower costs and cycle times during electroless and electrolytic plating, while lowering DI water consumption.

The process is gentler on the environment because the copper isn’t “etched” as aggressively, resulting in less copper in the DI water to sequester. Cycle times are reported to be between 5 min. to 10 min., and plating bath costs are lowered by up to $1,500.

After this preliminary presentation, there are plans to bring this demonstration to other cities.

Details: Written by Administrator; Category: Fab News; Published: 19 August 2009

FRANKFURT, GERMANY -- May shipments of printed wiring boards in Germany fell 4.2% sequentially, a pair of industry trade groups reported.

Bookings rose 16% sequentially, VdL and ZVEI said.

The book-to-bill ratio rose to 0.98, meaning 98 euros worth of orders were placed for every 100 euros worth of PWBs shipped. A ratio over 1.0 is considered the sign of a growing market.

Year to date through May, German PWB fabricators report revenues are down 42%.

REDMOND, WA and TUCSON, AZ – Prototron Circuits, an industry leader in quick-turn PCBs, has named Milin Circuit Sales (MCS) as its representative in Southern California, reporting directly to Russ Adams, Prototron’s West Coast regional sales manager.

MCS will work with Mandalay Technologies, who currently represents Prototron in that region. Each company will work with specific registered accounts. “There is a great deal of potential business in Southern California, and we really did need two sales firms to support it the Prototron way,” said Adams.

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Huawei Communication recently awarded the Huawei Supply Support Award for the first quarter to AT&S.

The award recognizes the company’s quick response times, flexibility and on time delivery when dealing with large volume orders. AT&S also received a top rating of A in Huawei’s Quarterly Quality Score Card, an overall supplier performance tool that focuses several factors including performance, quality and design capacity.

The company supplies high-end HDI PCBs for Huawei’s E180 3G data card. The E180 is the slimmest data card and supports the complete range of HSPA/UMTS and GSM/GPRS/EDGE network technologies.

AT&S was ranked in the top 15 PCB producers world wide in 2007, having shown steady growth over the previous three-year period.