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ANAHEIM – Multi-Fineline Electronix expects to report fiscal first-quarter net sales of approximately $239 million, relatively in line with the same period of 2011.

Read more: MFLEX Expects Q1 Sales to Exceed Guidance at $239M

TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics reported unconsolidated December revenues rose 29.5% year-over-year to NT$316.9 billion ($11 billion) on higher demand for consumer electronics.

Read more: Foxconn Sets December, Yearly Sales Marks

TURIN, ITALY -- Lackwerke Peters this week will open a sales branch here, its first in Italy.

Read more: Peters Opens Italy Branch

NEW BEDFORD, MA – Epec is celebrating its 60-year anniversary as the oldest printed circuit board company in North America, possibly in the world.

Epec engineers and manufactures customized built-to-print electronic products, including printed circuit boards, flex and rigid-flex circuits, membrane switches, graphic overlays, silicone rubber keypads, custom battery packs, and EC fans and drives.

The firm has UL certified manufacturing operations in Shenzhen, Taipei, and North America.

TAIPEI -- Unitech's decision to add capacity here instead of mainland China has a curious reasoning to it: labor rates.

Read more: Unitech Moving Production from China to Save Money

MINNEAPOLIS – Printed Circuits has expanded its PCB manufacturing facility, adding new equipment and increasing innerlayer capacity.

The company has installed and qualified new conveyorized wet processing equipment from Chemcut, including a chemical clean line, cupric chloride etcher and resist stripper. Each line is equipped with Chemcut’s thin material transport system. The additional lines will enable higher volume production, Printed Circuits said.

Printed Circuits manufactures multilayer flex and rigid-flex printed circuit boards.