Norwood, Massachusetts’ Analog Devices will shutter its manufacturing facility in Cambridge, eliminating 120 jobs. Work will be sent to the firm’s Wilmington plant. The Cambridge factory makes motion detectors used in a wide variety of products, from automobile air bags to video game controllers. Analog Devices is a multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Panasonic Electronic Devices will send 90 Knoxville, Tennessee factory jobs to Mexico. The Knoxville plant manufactures audio speakers and electronic capacitors. After the 90 layoffs, the plant will employ 80. It had 700 workers in 2002. Panasonic Corporation, formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial, is a multinational corporation based in Kadoma, Japan. Its main business is in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The State University of New York at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering will construct a a $50 million computer chip packaging center, creating 200 jobs. The Computer Chip Hybrid Integration Partnership (CHIP) will also build a $27.5 million computer chip commercialization center at the SUNY Institute of Technology outside Utica, creating 475 jobs. Share This [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Rockford, Illinois-based Sauer Danfoss has laid off 145 employees at its Ames, Iowa plant. In 2008, the Ames plant employed 1,150 people. Since then, the factory has cut 39% of its workforce. Once the current round of layoffs in complete, the Ames facility will have only 700 workers. Sauer-Danfoss designs, manufactures and markets engineered hydraulic, electric and electronic [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Pioneer Automotive Technologies will shut down some operations at its Springboro, Ohio plant, and lay off 61 employees between August and November. Two-hundred and twenty people now work at the plant, which employed 380 in 2005. Pioneer Automotive, a unit of Japan-based Pioneer, makes navigation systems and entertainment systems, including CD and DVD players, for automotive industry [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
Jackson, Michigan-based Sparton Corporation is moving its headquarters to a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, instead of to Brooksville, Florida. But the firm still intends to create 100 new jobs in Brooksville over the next two years. Sparton will consolidate all its US manufacturing in Brooksville. Hernando County is offering the electronics manufacturer $300,000 in cash job [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
San Jose, California’s Symmetricom will cut 30 jobs, or 4% of its workforce. In January, the firm said it would let go 100 people this year. Symmetricom is a supplier of timing and synchronization hardware, software and services. The Company sells its solutions to communication service providers, government agencies, enterprises and research facilities. Symmetricom’s products include atomic frequency [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
Alameda, California-based UTStarcom will cut 2,300 positions worldwide, or more than 50% of its global work force, by the end of its fiscal year. Last month the company reported Q1 losses of $67.4 million. The firm saw a profit in Q1 2008. UTStarcom will outsource its manufacturing operations, and cut research & development spending. UTStarcom is a Fortune [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based Becton, Dickinson and Company has purchased a plant in Mebane, North Carolina, and will hire 40 new workers. BD is investing $20 million in the Mebane facility, which will manufacture laboratory instruments used in diagnosing cancer. The company will keep its existing facility in Burlington, which employs 100 people. Becton, Dickinson and Company [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Endicott, New York-based electronics manufacturer Endicott Interconnect Technologies is cutting 240 jobs from its workforce of 1,800. The firm announced wage and hour reductions for all employees in April. The company makes printed circuit boards. Formerly IBM’s microelectronics division, Endicott Interconnect Technologies supplies electronic interconnect solutions and electro/mechanical equipment. Share This Story:
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