AUSTIN, TX — TechSearch International's latest Advanced Packaging Update describes some of the thermal challenges facing the industry from mobile to high-performance computing. With increased power dissipation, companies are moving to higher performance thermal interface materials and adopting new cooling methods including liquid immersion.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Precision Technology, Inc. (PTI), a longtime producer of printed circuit boards, today announced its merger with Epec Engineered Technologies. 

MILAN -- NCAB Group today signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Bare Board Consultants based in Codogno, south of Milan, Italy.

TORONTO -- Firan Technology Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Haverhill, MA-based IMI Inc., a manufacturer of specialty RF circuit boards focused on the aerospace and defense markets.