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Switzerland-based Logitech Ltd. has been given the go-ahead to utilize certain licensed technologies developed by Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) of Cypress in its Harmony line of advanced remote control products. Logitech designs, manufactures and markets personal digital communication devices through a network of manufacturing facilities in Asia and offices in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. UEI develops firmware and turnkey solutions and software for wireless home communication systems. UEI sells its products through its European headquarters in The Netherlands, and to distributors and retailers in Europe, Asia, Latin America, South Africa, and Australia/New Zealand under the One For All brand name;

Construction volume for the first 10 months of 2004 in California totaled $66 million, up 11% from the same period last year, and should grow 2% in 2005, according to industry experts. According to statistical data gathered by the Construction Industry Research Board (CIRB) for the month of October, total construction volume in the state stood at $6.5 billion, down 4%. However, the year-to-date figures for 2004 reveal increases in private and non-residential building and in heavy construction, offsetting declines in public buildings construction, according to the Burbank-based industry group, which predicts that total volume of construction in California to increase by 1.7% to $78 billion in 2005. The CIRB also forecasts that total construction volume for 2004 at $77 billion, up 3.7% from last year's total; and...

California-based Sanmina-SCI, a high-tech manufacturing company, will close its facility in Westbrook, Maine next March in a move that will impact about 325 jobs. The plant makes enclosures such as computer shells and circuit boxes for some of the custom electronics equipment the company manufactures for its customers. The company said the work probably will be shifted to its plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The closure is the third shutdown of a Sanmina-SCI plant in the region in a little more than two years - in August 2002, a company plant in Derry, New Hampshire, where electronic circuit boards were manufactured, was shuttered, while a custom electronics manufacturing facility in Augusta was closed in spring 2003, with the loss of 440 jobs. The company said the closures were caused by the need to consolidate work during a downturn in the industry.

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