President Obama recently launched a major initiative focused on strengthening the innovation, performance, competitiveness, and job-creating power of U.S. manufacturing.
The 200 million annual shipments milestone for branded tablets continues to elude OEM vendors, and overall growth for 2014 is set to come in at just 2.5%.
Nordson Corp. recently announced it has acquired Dima Group B.V., a Netherlands-based manufacturer of conformal coating, dispensing and surface-mount technology (SMT) equipment.
3M recently announced it has completed its acquisition, through Sumitomo 3M Ltd., of Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.’s 25% interest in Sumitomo 3M Ltd. for ¥90 billion (~ $865 million).