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PCB Industry Slowdown
Continues in August
"august business results for the north american
PCb industry continued slightly below last year's
levels," said sharon starr, iPC's director of market
research, "but the PCb book-to-bill ratio contin-
ued hovering near parity and actually strength-
ened a bit in august. flat growth is still expected
for the remainder of 2014."
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Colonial Assumes vermont
Circuits' Customer Base
mark osborn, president and founder of Colonial
Circuits, announced recently that his company
has acquired vermont Circuits' customer base
and will be offering a smooth transition for those
former customers.
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Wurth Elektronik's Flex
PCBs Achieve uL Mark
after a time-intensive and close coordination with
the ul engineers, an enormous amount of test
patterns and high costs, würth elektronik was able
to record a big achievement: four flex-rigid PCbs
received the ul listing.
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viasystems Challenges
EPA's CDR Cycle
Congressman bill Johnson (r-oh) sent a letter to
u.s. environmental Protection agency (ePa) ad-
ministrator Gina mcCarthy requesting an analysis
of reporting data pertaining to by-products sent
for recycling collected during the 2012 Chemical
data reporting (Cdr) reporting cycle.
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