Adept Technology announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2010.

ISRA Vision says it has accelerated growth dynamics and gained further market shares. Business has noticably increased in the second half of the year. In the third quarter of FY 2009/2010 revenues rose by 24% compared to previous year's quarter.

The IPC reported that rigid PCB shipments were up 23.9 percent while bookings increased 34.4 percent in July 2010 from July 2009. Compared to the previous month, rigid PCB shipments decreased 14.7 percent and rigid bookings decreased 16.9 percent.

 Applied Vision, a provider of machine vision inspection systems for the container manufacturing industry, has expanded its global customer service and support network with the opening of a new office in Dubai.

BT Imaging, a supplier of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for the photovoltaic manufacturing industry, announced the completion of its Series A2 financing round totaling US$3.8 million.

According to IMS Research  the world PLC market was estimated at $6.3 million in 2009; and is forecast to increase by $0.3 billion in 2010. However, revenues are not forecast to return to the 2008 level until 2012.