Happy new year! Hope this one’s a sight better than the last.

What’s new at Circuits Assembly in 2010? For starters, we plan to double-down on our technology coverage. Poll after poll of our readers shows we are at our best when we focus on the tech side. Ergo, rather than pushing the same, watered-down press releases you can find anywhere, we are ramping our coverage of new (and improved) processes for assembling and soldering circuit boards, while trying to pin down the issues behind the same.

We also are adding more analysts to discuss the technology’s pros and cons, giving you better insight without having to hop on a plane to attend a pricey tech conference.

We are looking forward to 2010, which we will be a bounce-back year for electronics manufacturing. I don’t predict a return to double-digit growth, but I think gains in the high single-digits are very achievable.