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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 27 August 2008

ANAHEIM, CA– Multi-Fineline Electronix Inc (M-Flex) is set to lease a factory in Malaysia and buy manufacturing equipment totaling about $1 million. The company plans to transfer a small portion of its medical and industrial circuit board manufacturing operations from Anaheim and Suzhou, China to the Malaysian operation. The new factory will provide continued production while a new, permanent factory in China is completed. The Malaysian factory, scheduled to open in December of this year, will employ about 125 workers. A spokesperson for M-Flex said the company did not foresee job cuts at the CA facility as a result of the new factory.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 27 August 2008

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American industry PCB shipments in July increased 6.9% year-over-year and orders fell 6.9%, IPC said.

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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 26 August 2008

TORONTO– Lazer-Tech recently announced that Ping Li has joined the company’s sales team and will be in charge of inside sales. With over 10 years of experience in the printed circuit board industry, Li has held key positions within a number of companies including Dynamic Details Canada and Data Circuits.

“We consider her hiring to be the first important step in the building of our sales team for the future,” says Jamie Armitage, company owner.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Fab News; Published: 25 August 2008

TAIWAN– Several leading Taiwanese flex circuit manufacturers are seeing stronger demand while others are steadily falling.

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BANNOCKBURN, IL – PWB fabricators have raised salary budgets by 3% from 2006 to 2007, a new study found.

Hourly wages have been on the rise since 2004, IPC said, based on results from two recently released biennial studies undertaken by the trade group.

At EMS companies, budgets for salaried positions rose a 3.1% on average from 2006 to 2007, while hourly wages rose 3.3%.

The reports, 2006–2007 IPC Wage Rate and Salary Report for the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Industry and 2006–2007 IPC Wage Rate and Salary Report for the PCB Industry, list historical and current wage and salary data, in the US and Canada, for dozens of industry positions and their related job descriptions.

Data are segmented by company size, personnel and compensation policies, benefits and sales compensation structure.

TUCSON, AZ– Prototron Circuits recently achieved compliance to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the board fabricator announced.

ITAR is a US federal regulation governing the export or import defense-related articles and services as designated on the US Munitions List.

“Now we are able to offer customers the security and ease of mind of knowing that when they order boards, they are dealing with a fully ITAR compliant vendor,” explains Dave Ryder, president and founder of Prototron