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

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

ANAHEIM, CA - Multi-Fineline Electronix (MFLEX) has named Thomas Ligouri its new CFO and executive VP. Ligouri most recently served as CFO of Hypercom Inc.

Ligouri replaces Craig Riedel, who was named VP and corporate controller.

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

JIANGMEN, CHINA - Jiatai Electronics recently finished the construction of the first stage of its new plant in Jiangmen and plans to begin trial production soon.

The project will cost $45 million, and $22.5 million has been invested in the first stage. The plant will mainly focus on R&D, manufacturing and sales of flexible PCBs, rigid-flex PCBs and high-end multi-layer PCB products, and will encompass 1.5 million square feet annual capacity.

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

TAIWAN - Tripod Technology plans to double its capacity in the notebook PCB segment, in order to keep pace with expected increase in demand.

Tripod has designated its plant 4A at Wuxi, China for notebook PCB production. The company’s current 500,000 sq. ft. capacity will be increased to 800,000 sq. ft. in the third quarter, and to one million by the end of 2008, according to company plans.

As of 2007, Tripod shipped a total of 10 million notebook PCBs, for a market share of 8%. Notebook PCB production contributed about 12% to company sales in 2007. Investors estimate that Tripod will ship a total of 12-15 million notebook PCBs in 2008, and company executives indicate that Tripod will attempt to increase their notebook PCB market share to 10%.