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WSI Industries' Sales Growth
Continues in 2Q14
Benjamin Rashleger, president and Ceo, com-
mented, "our top line sales growth continued in
our fiscal 2014 second quarter as we experienced
our second consecutive quarter with sales in ex-
cess of $10 million."
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Sparton acquires aubrey
Group; Expands
medical Portfolio
"We are pleased to announce the acquisition of
Aubrey group, which will add an innovative prod-
uct development offering to our portfolio, allow-
ing us to provide enhanced services throughout
the product lifecycle," stated Cary B. Wood, presi-
dent and Ceo of Sparton.
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michalkiewicz to Chair
Top IPC Leadership
Committee
Renee Michalkiewicz, MIT, general manager, Trace
laboratories, Baltimore, has been elected chair of
the IPC Technical Activities executive Committee
(TaeC) for a two-year term. Michalkiewicz suc-
ceeds Douglas Pauls of Rockwell Collins, who held
the role for IPC's top standards development over-
sight committee for the past two years.
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SmTa Publishes Electronic
assembly Handbook
Chapter topics include soldering and materials,
printed wiring boards, components, paste-print
stencil, component placement, assembly line de-
sign and optimization, solder reflow, wave sol-
dering, dispensing, and inspection and test. each
chapter outlines the fundamental attributes of crit-
ical assembly processes providing full-color images
and diagrams to illustrate real-world applications.
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IPC, JEDEC Launch Grid
array Test Standard
one of the big challenges for many board design-
ers today is to eliminate or reduce the damage
caused by shock and vibration. Whether they're
producing cell phones or aerospace boards, engi-
neers want to use the best design and manufac-
turing processes for attaching ball grid array pack-
ages to printed boards.
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Kimball EmS Earns award
from Future Electronics
on March 19, Kimball electronics group was rec-
ognized by future electronics with the "global
Customer of the year 2013" Award. The award
was presented to Don Charron, president of Kim-
ball electronics group, during the future electron-
ics world-wide sales conference held in Montreal.
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