Cleveland’s Ferro Completes Electronic Materials Restructuring Program; Sells Niagara Falls Manufacturing Facility (13659)
The restructuring included transfer of dielectric materials manufacturing from the Company’s production facilities in Niagara Falls, New York, to existing Ferro facilities in Penn Yan, New York and Uden, The Netherlands. As part of the restructuring program, Ferro sold its Niagara Falls manufacturing site and certain industrial ceramics product lines that were based at the Niagara Falls site to TAM Ceramics LLC, an affiliate of All-American Holdings LLC

Cleveland's Ferro to Break Ground in China for Solar Paste Production Facility (12904)
Ferro’s new solar paste production site will adjoin other Ferro facilities in the Suzhou Industrial Park, where the Company currently produces frits and colors used in tile and porcelain enamel coatings and electrolytes used in the manufacture of lithium batteries and other specialty chemical products.

Myrtle Beach, S.C.'s AVX Corporation Announces Completion of Acquisition of American Technical Ceramics Corp. (12734)
AVX Corporation is a leading worldwide manufacturer and supplier of a broad line of passive electronic components and interconnect products. AVX’s components can be found in products manufactured in a very broad range of industries worldwide.

Huntington Station, N.Y.'s American Technical Ceramics Corp. Announces Stockholder Approval of Merger (12694)
American Technical Ceramics Corp. designs, develops, manufactures and markets electronic components, including ceramic multilayer capacitors and custom thin film circuits. ATC’s products are utilized in a broad range of commercial and military applications, including wireless infrastructure, fiber optics, medical electronics, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and satellite equipment.

Hynix Semiconductor Licenses ISi’s Z-RAM Memory Technology for DRAM Products (12215)
“Z-RAM promises to provide an elegant approach to manufacture dense DRAMs on nanometer processes,” said Sung-Joo Hong, VP of R&D Division at Hynix. “We see the potential to create a new platform of products based on ISi’s innovation of Z-RAM that will help us maintain and grow our leadership position in the memory market.”

Malvern, Pa.'s Vishay to Sell Automotive Modules and Subsystems Business Acquired from International Rectifier (11980)
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and selected ICs) and passive electronic components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets.

Malvern, Pa.'s Vishay to Sell Automotive Modules and Subsystems Business Acquired from International Rectifier (11976)
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and selected ICs) and passive electronic components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets.

Introducing StacoVAR Motor Load Fixed Capacitor Assemblies for Power Factor Improvement with Low Voltage Applications (11703)
The Capacitors are three-phase metalized polypropylene, which are self-healing to prevent permanent dielectric breakdown

TOA Electric USA Expanding In Nicholasville, Ky. (11581)
TOA Electric Industry specializes in the development and design of automated control systems as well as the sales of system equipment, the technical development, fabrication, and design of control panels and other electrical equipments, and the assembly and sales of semiconductors, capacitors, LCD modules, and other electronic components.

Alpha Wire launches transparent heat shrinkable tubing for visual inspection applications (11508)
Leading supplier of advanced solutions and service in wire, cable and tubing, Alpha Wire Company, has announced the launch of a new, completely transparent, heat shrinkable tubing called FIT®-CLEAR. The latest addition represents a unique addition to the company’s existing line of heat shrink products and will address applications where visual inspection and identification are issues once a cable has been dressed.