06/21/2005 GUILFORD, Maine, June 20, 2005--Puritan Medical Products Company LLC today announced an agreement with SANYO Co., Ltd., Japan, to distribute HUBY swabs, a leading brand of industrial swabs, as per Timothy Templet, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing.
06/21/2005 (June 21, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Electroglas Inc. has been ranked as a top-ten supplier of test and material handling equipment, based on surveys returned from customers who represent 96% of the world's semiconductor manufacturers. The results come from an annual double-blind customer satisfaction survey for chip-making equipment that is conducted by an independent semiconductor industry research and analysis company.
06/21/2005 June 21, 2005 - The Semiconductor Equipment Consortium for Advanced Packaging (SECAP) has announced that it will disband now that the consortium has successfully established 300mm wafer-level packaging as a functional technology, and full-volume production on the first installed wafer-bumping line is underway.
06/21/2005 You have to make news to be in the news, or so goes the mantra of a PR professional. There are lots of ways to generate news these days, from labeling sales as "strategic partnerships" to announcing scientific breakthroughs and product releases.
06/21/2005 The Foresight Nanotech Institute, a Palo Alto, Calif. think tank, and Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio manager of labs and technology commercialization, announced today that they have launched the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems.
06/20/2005 Spring Valley, NY -- June 10, 2005 -- Golden Taste, Inc., 45 S. Central Avenue, Spring Valley, New York 10977 is recalling its Golden Taste Tuna Deluxe in 7.5 ounce and 3.5 ounce clear plastic containers because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems.
06/20/2005 (June 20, 2005) Singapore and Fremont, Calif. — STATS ChipPAC Ltd. recently appointed Janet T. Taylor as General Counsel, reporting directly to STATS ChipPAC's president and CEO. In this position, Taylor will be accountable for all legal matters pertaining to STATS ChipPAC.
06/20/2005 As globalization continues its relentless onslaught, the question inevitably arises: Precisely who benefits from this scenario? Certainly shareholders stand to benefit from innovation and the industrial development that follows. The employees of new firms benefit, too. And then there are the local economies in which such industries develop. They benefit from the creation of new jobs, the expansion of the local service sector, and from the reinvigorated tax base that results.
06/20/2005 Honda Motor Co. Ltd. of Japan announced last week that its FCX fuel cell vehicle has received motor vehicle type certification from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
06/17/2005 The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that the European Union also should revise the duties it has imposed against Hynix Semiconductor, four months after ruling that the US also violated trade regulations by instituting tariffs against the South Korean memory chipmaker.
06/17/2005 (June 17, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — On a 3-month average basis, North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $1.03 billion in orders and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.85 in May 2005, according to SEMI's published May 2005 Book-to-Bill Report. This book-to-bill figure shows that $85 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
06/17/2005 FORT WORTH, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/16/2005 -- An Alcohol-based, Zinc Pyrithione (ZPT)-preserved product can provide the strategic defense needed to assist in reducing the number of post-surgery biofilm infections that proliferate in hospitals across the United States, according to research findings published as an abstract and presented at the international meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) conference in Baltimore, MD, June 19-23.
06/17/2005 (June 17, 2005) Midland, Mich. — Dow Corning Corp.'s TC-5022 thermally conductive grease has been approved by AMD for use on its AMD64 processors and inclusion in its bundled processor-in-a-box (PIB) products. TC-5022 offers a 10% to 15% reduction in thermal resistance, according to customer testing, improving thermal performance. It provides a thermal "path" between the microprocessor package and its device-cooling heatsink and highly efficient transfer of heat away from the processor.
06/17/2005 (June 17, 2005) Milpitas, Calif. — Contract IC assembly services provider CORWIL Technology Corp. has added 300-mm wafer dicing capability to its offering. Both bumped and non-bumped wafers are being processed in CORWIL's fully automatic, dual-spindle Disco system, complementing CORWIL's existing high-volume wafer dicing, pick-and-place, and die inspection services, wire bond and flip chip IC assembly services, and wafer thinning and polishing services.
06/17/2005 June 16, 2005 - North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.03 billion in orders in May 2005 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.85, according to SEMI.
06/17/2005 The Washington Technology Center's (WTC) Microfabrication Laboratory is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Like any entrepreneurial venture, we experienced successes and challenges in achieving this milestone.
06/16/2005 M+W Zander Facility Engineering Limited ("M+W Zander"), a subsidiary of M+W Zander Holding AG, Germany, and a leading global provider of comprehensive facility engineering services for high technology manufacturing facilities and systems, today announced that it has secured a new contract of Infineon Technologies AG ("Infineon") amounting to 130 million euros (US$170 million).
