FLORENCE, KY --Ticona, a business of Celanese, will increase prices for its Vectra liquid crystal polymer (LCP) products, effective with shipments to customers beginning Aug. 1, 2008. Raw material price increases make the LCP price adjustments necessary.
VICTORIA, MN –HEI Inc. profit for the third quarter rose as net sales increased 14.6%. HEI provides design, fab and assembly services for medical, communications and other specialty industies.
For the period ended May 31, the company reported net sales of $10.2 million and net income of $179,000. A year ago, HEI had a net loss of $1.8 million.
CARLSBAD, CA -- Machine Vision Products appoints Paul Groome, sales and marketing manager for Western North American and corporate accounts.
"Paul’s extensive industry experience will be invaluable as we introduce new products and address new markets. His knowledge of electronics manufacturing and the electronics market will improve our ability to pro-actively address the needs of our customers,” said Richard Osborne, North American Sales Manager of Machine Vision Products.
CALUMET, MI -- Calumet Electronics celebrates its 40th year of manufacturing hi-reliability printed circuit boards. All PCBs are manufactured in the Calumet, Michigan facility. The company is registered as a Small Business by the SBA and a certified HUBZone Enterprise.
Calumet is 4A1 rated by Dunn and Bradstreet. The company operates under a quality system that is registered to ISO9001:2000 and certified by the Department of Defense to Military Performance Specifications for Printed Circuit Boards; MIL-PRF-31032 and MIL-PRF-55110.
GENT, BELGIUM -- Mania Technologie Belgium NV (formerly known as BARCO) announced the appointment of LMCIS LLC as its representative for North America for the entire product range.
LMCIS LLC will sell the SilverWriter and Calibrator series of Laser Photo Plotters. LMCIS LLC will also support for this equipment with dedicated, factoryâ€trained and authorized engineers. These engineers are currently supporting the installed base of this equipment in North America.
LMCIS LLC will sell, and directly support, all the software products consisting of the UCAM family of CAM and data preparation solution, the Integrator sales solution, as well as the recently introduced SmartPlate, an innovative software solution for reliable plating.
TORONTO -- Firan Technology Group Corporation announced net sales increased by $1,195,000 or 8%, from $15,263,000 in the second quarter of 2007 to $16,458,000 in the second quarter of 2008.