Electronics Production | January 10, 2008

Note lay off 24 in Sweden

Sweden based EMS provider Note plans to remove 24 employees at its plant in Skellefteå, Sweden.

The Skellefteå plant was taken over from Ericsson a couple of years ago. Ericsson has approximately 80 % of Note Skellefteå's production. According to Hans Westin the head of the Union at the plant, Note will transfer parts of the production to China.

The United States’ three remaining manufacturers of polysilicon expressed appreciation to President Trump and praised U.S. negotiators for securing the Chinese commitment to purchase U.S. polysilicon in the first phase of the U.S.-China trade deal.

Following its recent USD 26.2 billion deal to sell off its nutrition business, DuPont de Nemours Inc. is weighing a divestiture of its electronics unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

AMD has announced several promotions and one new hire to its senior leadership team, in an effort to enable the company’s continued growth in the high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies market.

Webasto has inaugurated its new roof plant and battery center in Jiaxing (Zhejiang Province) close to Shanghai.

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Panasonic is looking to build a new wiring device factory in southern India. The new factory is scheduled to start production in autumn 2021, responding to the increased demand in the country.

Season Group has invested in, and installed, two high-speed and high-precision wireless communication testers - Rohde & Schwarz’s R&S CMW500 Wideband Radio Communication Tester and R&S CMW100 Communications Manufacturing Test Set.

Rocket Lab announced this week it will open a new facility to serve as its corporate headquarters and provide increased production capacity.

PCB Piezotronics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MTS Systems Corporation, has announced the completion of environmentally controlled clean rooms at their DePew, New York facility.

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