News from Austria

- AT&S heads Hermes Consortium which is focused on driving forward miniaturization and reliability

News from Germany

- STI and SIPLACE: A long standing relationship spanning 2 decades

News from the EU

- Merkel fails to obtain absolute parliamentary majority for second Greek bailout within her coalition

- ECB suspends use of Greek debt as collatoral after S&P downgrades Greece to "selective default"

- Spanish Government unveils worse-than-expected deficit figures for 2011

News from the UK

- Ventec launches VT-464 Halogen Free Low Loss Laminates

- ICT Annual Symposium

- Polar Instruments supports early-adoption of new PCB Insertion-Loss test system with no charge licence offer

News from the USA

- Douglas Pauls elected to Chair IPC's Top Standards Development Leadership Committee

- Aegis unveiled the InForce Digital Process Terminal and Line Attendant at APEX

- Park Electrochemical Announes Introduction of N6800-22 High Speed/Low Loss and N6800/22 SI High Speed/Very Low Loss Digital Electronic Materials Products

- IPC releases PCB Industry results for January 2012; elects new Officers/Members to Board of Directors; honours DDI Corp. and Flextronics with corporate recognition Awards

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