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BANNOCKBURN, IL — IPC last week presented scores of awards to individuals who made significant contributions to standards and programs development.

Read more: IPC Honors Standards Contributors

SANTA ANA, CA -- The board of TTM Technologies, the top supplier of printed circuit boards to the US Department of Defense, has approved an agreement under which two of its major shareholders would be prohibited from accessing classified military information.

Read more: TTM Board OKs DoD Restrictions on Ownership

CARSON CITY, NVTaiyo America has appointed Haruomi Yoshimoto president.

Yoshimoto joined Taiyo Ink Manufacturing (currently, Taiyo Holdings Co.) in July 1998 as assistant to the general manager of business divisions. In April, he was promoted to executive officer, general manager of corporate strategies division.

He has been on the board of directors since June 1999, and is joined by Morio Suzuki, Jinmei Miyazaki, Akio Sekimoto and John Fix.

Taiyo supplies solder masks and inks for PCBs.

ROSWELL, GA -- Maintaino seeks participants in an upcoming beta test of its new maintenance management software for PCB fabricators.

Read more: Maintaino Seeks Beta Testers

TORONTO -- Lazer-Tech has begun offering quickturn circuit boards.

In a press release, president Jamie Armitage said, "We have enhanced our front-end engineering team along with optimizing other critical processes. We decided to develop a strategy where we would be able to respond to [customer] requests, and we are now truly able to go out and market our quickturn services.”

Lazer-Tech currently offers 72-hour turns and predicts 48-hour turns will be possible within the next few months.

WASHINGTON – A pair of US congressmen yesterday introduced legislation aimed at preventing US firms from shipping electronics waste to developing countries.

Read more: E-Waste Export Bill Introduced to Halt Shipment to Developing Countries

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