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california congressman
mike honda Discusses
american manufacturing
Barry Matties, Publisher of I-Connect007, sat
down with Congressman honda, who represents
District 17 in the Silicon valley, and talked with
him about American manufacturing, infrastruc-
ture, education and some of the current thinking
in America. According to honda, "The policies
we pass and the things we do in d.C. that nega-
tively impact our economy...a lot of those guys
who don't support some of the positive things we
want to see happen don't really understand that it
impacts their districts, their social services, health
and business."
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mIrTEc receives Fourth
Service Excellence award
Brian d'Amico, President of MIrTeC Corp., stated,
"We at MIrTeC take pride in providing the most
technologically advanced inspection systems to
our valued customers. furthermore, we recog-
nize how important it is to back these exceptional
products with a strong sales and service organiza-
tion." Click to watch related video from realTime
with…IPC APeX eXPo 2015.
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Exception EmS Optimistic
for Growth after
management Buyout
exception eMS has concluded a management buy-
out (MBo) of its institutional investor by the Se-
nior executive team, led by Ceo Mark o'Connor.
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JEDEc & IPc Update
component assessment
Standard, J-STD-020E JEDEc
Solid State Technology Association and ipC to-
day announced the publication of an update to
J-STD-020, Moisture/reflow Sensitivity Classifica-
tion for nonhermetic Solid State Surface Mount
devices.
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news highlights from
SmT007 this month
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