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SINGAPORE - Flextronics Inc. is planning to increase its manufacturing capacity in Hungary and will increase jobs by approximately 10%.  According to industry sources, the company will be  hiring highly-skilled workers for positions in mechatronic engineering and IT.

Flextronics has five manufacturing plants employing 10,000 workers in Hungary, and the company wants to increase product lines and develop its service base in Zalaegerszeg, one of the largest service centers in Central and Eastern Europe, according to reports.

"Flextronics will launch a new, large-volume production program in Hungary this year," said an HR spokesman for Flextronics. Production is set to begin this May in Zalaegerszeg and Sarvar.

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WEST HAVEN, CT - Enthone Inc. celebrated the opening of its advanced plating applications laboratory located at the company’s West Haven facility. Guests included customers, state and local government officials, media and company employees. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was followed by tours of the new facility.

Congratulatory remarks were provided by Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro, and West Haven Mayor John M. Picard. Cookson CEO Steven Corbett, Enthone President Huub van Dun, and Enthone Americas VP Terrence Copeland presided over the ceremony, acknowledging and thanking company employees and customers for their efforts and patronage.

The company said that the West Haven Applications Laboratory will be "a major resource that will drive technical innovation, best practices, and learning for many years to come."

Mr. Copeland said, "As tangibly demonstrated by the opening of the advanced applications laboratory, Enthone remains strongly committed to the Americas market by substantially enhancing our ability to provide process solutions that meet our customers' current and future manufacturing challenges."
SANTA CLARA, CA and NAGANO, JAPAN - HDI Solutions, Inc. and Hioki E.E. Corporation announce the installation of flying probe testers at Endicott Interconnect Technologies (EI), Endicott, NY. EI is a fabricator and assembler of complex printed circuit boards, advanced flip chip and wire bonded semiconductor packaging products.
ANAHEIM, CA – DDi Corporation, PCB engineering and manufacturing services provider, reported fourth quarter sales of $45.2 million, up 4% from $43.3 million from the previous year.

Net sales for the company were also up 11.7% in Q3.

For the full fiscal year ending December 31, the company reported $181 million in sales, down from $198.1 million in the previous year.
PORTLAND, OR - Soldering chips to PCBs may become a thing of the past due to research on copper materials sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, according to industry reports.

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