The organizer of the SPS/IPC/Drives fair to be held in Nuremberg in Germany from the 23rd to the 25th November 2010 expects 1,200 exhibitors. The Mesago Messe Management sees a greater use of the eleven halls. The focus of the fair and the forums are energy efficiency, Industrial Identity and Safety...

Sharp will start mass production of blue LED chips at its Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan within 2010. Growth in demand for LED backlights for LCD TVs and LED lighting fixtures has led to a rapid increase in the demand for blue LED chips. Sharp started blue LED chip prod...

The ZVEI (Central Association of the German Electrical and Electronics Industry ) trade association PCB and Electronic Systems reported that in March 2010 total sales for printed circuit board manufacturers in Germany were up 16.7 percent on the previous month. Compared with March 2009 this was an i...

The PCIM China was held from the 1st to the 3rd June in Shanghai. Besides the exhibition, more than 50 conference lectures were held. The number of conference participants rose by 16% to 357 persons. Of the 44 exhibitors, 25 were Chinese. They presented their wares to 2,893 trade visitors on an area...

Cascade Microtech, a supplier of probe stations, engineering probes and RF probe cards, announced that Michael D. Burger has been named president and chief executive officer of the company. Burger, 52, has most recently been president and chief executive officer of Merix Corporation, currently a who...

With approximately 31,000 visitors, the Automatica 2010 almost equalled the number who came to the previous fair held in 2008 (31,856). The Automatica International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics was held in Munich from the 8th to the 11th June 2010 and, according to the organizers, offe...

Spectrum Control, a manufacturer of custom electronic products and systems, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and assume certain liabilities of Sage Laboratories, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ceralta Technologies.

Sage Labs, with...