Marechal Electric is setting up in Rowville, Victoria. [ + ]

According to a report, solar PV market installations reached a record of 27.4 GW in 2011. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation has moved its headquarters to Bayswater. [ + ]

Richardson RFPD has changed its domain name. [ + ]

Coverity’s development testing platform for security will be integrated with Wind River’s embedded software. [ + ]

Nextreme Thermal Solutions and Laird Technologies have formed a distribution and design partnership. [ + ]

ProtoPlate may close the gap in prototyping for three-dimensional interconnect devices. [ + ]

Bishop & Associates has acquired a website, buyer’s guide and four newsletters from PennWell. [ + ]

element14 has signed a global distribution deal with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. [ + ]

Solvay and the Holst Centre have demonstrated high efficiency flexible OLED lighting tiles with a surface area of 69 cm² [ + ]

An engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleagues at the University of Utah have discovered a new method of making nanoparticles and nanofilms that could be used in developing better electronic devices, biosensors and certain types of high-powered and highly specific microscopes used for scientific research. [ + ]

Researchers have developed, what they claim to be, the first functional oxide thin films that can be used efficiently in electronics. [ + ]

Imec has released an early-version process development kit for 14 nm logic chips [ + ]

Pierlite UK won the contract to replace bulbs at Westminster Hall with LEDs. [ + ]

Reinhausen has appointed Westek Electronics as their Australian and New Zealand distributor. [ + ]