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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, factory‐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.
 
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PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Dow Chemical Company to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Rohm and Haas common stock for $78 per share in cash. The transaction is valued between $15.3 and $18.8 billion by sources. Read more ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ and MERIDIAN, ID – James V. Russell, President of R&D Circuits and Darren Young, CEO of Anestel announces the merger of Anestel Corporation and R&D Circuits. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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BILLERICA, MA - Orbotech Ltd. has released the PerFix Automated Optical Repair System (AOR), to automatically check PCBs for shorts and excess copper. The company states that the system is the first of its kind in the bare PCB production industry.

According to the company, the use of the new system will greatly reduce the scrapping of PCB panels.

"By automatically fixing short defects which frequently cannot be repaired manually, this solution will enable manufacturers to achieve major operational cost savings, particularly as the complexity of board designs continues to increase." commented Hanan Gino, president of the PCB division at Orbotech.

The company states that the new system employs the image acquisition and processing techniques used in Orbotech's SIP AOI technology, and that the system achieves accurate results not possible with manual repair.

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