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MFLEX Announces
Restructuring Plan
Following a full review of its manufacturing foot-
print and in an effort to realign its manufactur-
ing capacity and costs with expected revenues,
mFlex is consolidating its production facilities to
reduce the total manufacturing floor space by ap-
proximately one-third.
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IPC: N.A. PCB B2B Ratio
Improves, Sales Lag
"January is typically a slow month in electronics
manufacturing, especially compared to decem-
ber, but this winter the industry may also be feel-
ing the effects of weather-related slowdowns,"
said sharon starr, ipc's director of market re-
search. "the good news is that the book-to-bill
ratio continued to climb in January."
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IPC: Flexible Metal-clad
Dielectric Materials
Standard
this standard establishes the classification system,
the qualification and quality performance require-
ments for flexible metal-clad dielectric materials to
be used for the fabrication of flexible printed cir-
cuitry and flexible flat cable.
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FPCB Market Expected to
Reach $12B in 2014
the global flexible printed circuit board (FpcB)
market valued us $11.321 billion with a yoy
growth rate of 9.4% in 2013, and will be worth
us $12.008 billion in 2014 and us $12.686 billion
in 2015.
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