IC Insights Says Industry Overshooting Capital Spending Needs for NAND Flash Memory
Overspending by the major NAND suppliers expected to further cool NAND flash prices this year. IC Insights will release its 200+ page Mid-Year Update to the 2018 McClean Report later this month. The Mid-Year Update revises IC Insights’ worldwide economic and IC industry forecasts through 2022 that were originally published in The 2018 McClean Report issued in January of this year.Figure 1 compares the […]
Tom Forsythe, Vice President at Kyzen at SMT Hybrid Packaging 2018
Sometimes it’s just nice to chat without an agenda! Tom Forsythe, Vice President at Kyzen and Philip Stoten muse over GDPR, data security and somehow manage to bring the conversation back around to cleaning. Filmed on location at SMT Hybrid Packaging, Nuremberg, Germany thanks to the sponsorship of Aegis Software, Jabil, KIC, Seho and Radius […]
IHS Markit U.S. Purchasing Managers Index: U.S. manufacturing growth remains strong despite hitting four-month low
NEW YORK–June data signalled a slightly softer rate of growth across the U.S. manufacturing sector. The PMI dipped to its lowest in four months as output and new orders both expanded at the slowest rates since November 2017. Meanwhile, the effects of tariffs were widely cited as contributing to another sharp rise in input prices, […]
Flexenclosure rapidly expanding presence in Latin America
Prefabricated data centre specialist Flexenclosure is further expanding its footprint in Latin America with two new orders for eCentre data centres in Nicaragua and Honduras. This follows recent projects in Paraguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile. The first to be built will be in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. Construction has commenced at Flexenclosure’s manufacturing plant in Sweden and […]
EMSNOW Industry Interview: Jason Spera, Aegis Software

“This year, our focus is to help the highly skilled technical manufacturing people who visited SMT, both understand and be able to communicate to their management, the huge opportunity that investment in software represents for them to achieve their operational and business goals.”