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For the sixth consecutive year, Asymtek has won the Circuits Assembly Service Excellence Award, receiving the highest customer service ratings in the dispensing category for electronics assembly equipment suppliers.

The Board of Directors of Ciba, now part of BASF, has appointed Michael Heinz of BASF as the new chief executive officer of Ciba.

Henkel, Düsseldorf, Germany, has announced that it will donate up to 20 cents to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation^® (BCRF) for specially marked Duck^® brand products (with a maximum donation of $25,000) beginning Oct. 1, 2009.

Univar, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, recently announced the appointment of David Strizzi as president of Univar USA.

IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries^®, Bannockburn, IL, has appointed Yury Kovalevsky as its official representative to Russia and Russian-speaking countries.

Taylor Chemical Co., a leading formulator and manufacturer of silicone-based technology, has announced a comprehensive rebranding and name change of the 29-year-old company.

IPS Corporation has named Kevin Connolly director of operations for its WELD-ON^® structural adhesives.

Extrusion Dies Industries LLC (EDI) and ITW Dynatec recently reached a worldwide agreement to market turnkey hot-melt adhesive coating stations by combining ITW Dynatec’s melting and fluid delivery equipment with EDI’s slot die systems.

EFD, a subsidiary of Nordson, has won the 2009 Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Magazine Vision Award for its new lead-free, halide-free, water-soluble solder pastes.

Wacker Chemie AG, Munich, Germany, has announced plans to build a new 550-acre hyper-pure polycrystalline silicone facility in Tennessee for approximately $20 million.