84 SMT Magazine • May 2014
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News Highlights
84 SMT Magazine • May 2014
Peter Sarmanian Corporate award
Goes to Raytheon
IPC is recognizing Raytheon's ongoing support by
awarding the company with its peter Sarmanian
Corporate Recognition Award, which recognizes
an IPC member corporation that has made con-
tributions to the printed board industry and sup-
ported IPC through participation in technical and/
or management programs.
IPC voices Stand on RoHS2
Substance Revisions
IPC highlighted its disagreement with the uBA
identification and ranking of TBBPA as a second
highest priority substance for potential restriction
under the rohS Directive. according to an eu risk
Assessment, TBBPA has been found to be safe for
human health and the environment and should
not be considered for further assessment under
the Directive.
FTG to Supply Heads-up Display to
LIEoE's C919 aircraft
under the terms of the loI, fTg will design, de-
velop, manufacture, and supply the HuD CPA. The
design, development and initial manufacturing
will be completed at FTg aerospace—Toronto.
volume manufacturing will be performed at the
company's facility in Tianjin, China.
BEST Launches New "Shop vac" for PCBs
The new PCBvac a shop vac can clean up both
unwanted liquids and solids from a PCB. This ad-
justable vacuum cleaning system allows you to
connect to clean, filtered shop air and then have
a hand held tool in your hand to get around and
underneath components.
Sparton, USSI Win $13.3m in Foreign
Sales Contracts
Sparton Corporation and uSSi, a subsidiary of ul-
tra electronics holdings plc (ule), announce the
award of subcontracts valued at $13.3 million
from their erapSCo/Sonobuoy TechSystems joint
venture.
Declining Defense orders Lower
PartnerTech's 2013 Sales
net sales for the year totalled SeK 2,237 million,
compared with the previous year's SeK 2,242 mil-
lion. Increased sales toward the end of the year, to
both new and existing customers, could not offset
the weaker start to the year and declining defense
orders, as well as the realignment process in norway.
Ducommun Expands Supplier Gold
Status from Sikorsky
Ducommun incorporated has earned Supplier
gold status from Sikorsky aircraft Corporation, a
subsidiary of united Technologies Corporation, at
its Berryville and Huntsville, Arkansas facilities. Du-
commun's Joplin, Missouri plant has maintained
uTC Supplier gold status since 2010. The facilities
manufacture complex custom interconnect and
electronic assemblies for Sikorsky's blaCK hawK
helicopters.
mTI Electronics achieves Recertifications
MTI electronics Inc, an electronic Manufactur-
ing Services provider, announced that it has
been re-certified to the new iSo 9001:2008, iSo
13485:2003 and aS9100C for the manufacture of
PCBAs.
Kitron to Supply Electronics modules
to Kongsberg Gruppen
Kitron has received a new order worth approxi-
mately noK 30 million from Kongsberg grup-
pen to supply electronics modules for integration
in Kongsberg's weapon guidance system Remote
weapon Station (rwS). in addition, Kitron has re-
ceived a prognosis for orders of a further noK 20
million.
Ducommun Nets osprey Contracts
from Bell Helicopter
Ducommun Incorporated has received contracts
valued at $5.6 million from Bell Helicopter, a sub-
sidiary of Textron, Inc., to provide electronic as-
semblies and wiring harnesses for the v-22 osprey
tiltrotor military aircraft through January 2015.