Electronics Assembly

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BANNOCKBURN, IL—The IPC has released its first standard covering the solder paste printing process.

THORNTON, CO—Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. will make solar panels to help power Foxconn’s new electronics assembly plant in Zhenzhou City, China.

WASHINGTON—More jobs will be coming back to the United States from offshore locations during the next eight years, according to a new report by CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate executives.

BROMONT, Canada—A public-private partnership has opened a new, $218 million research center here that will focus on microelectronics testing, assembly and packaging.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL—A thin nickel barrier will slow the rate of intermetallic growth between the base metal and surface plating on component leads.

Offshoring has, quite simply, gutted the American middle class. But it took more than the presence of several hundred million unemployed Chinese to make offshoring feasible. Some are technological, some are cultural.

RENO, NV—EE Technologies has added a third shift at its electronics assembly plant here. The contract manufacturer is also installing a new assembly line.

PALO ALTO, CA—A man who bought an HP laptop found an unexpected file on the machine’s hard drive: a video showing life on the Chinese assembly line where the computer was made.