eradyne’s new, 273,000-square-foot plant in North Reading, Massachusetts (top) will help relieve overcrowding in Boston when it opens in 1999. The long-range plan for the 45-acre site also includes two additional buildings. In Nashua, New Hampshire (left), Teradyne Connection Systems added 94,000 square feet to its printed-circuit facility in 1998, equipping the plant with a Class 10,000 clean room (center). On Japan’s “silicon island” of Kyushu, Teradyne doubled the size of its Kumamoto manufacturing plant (bottom left).