October 12, 2007 – Kessel estimates roughly 8.3 million square feet or, 43+ facility locations with overlapping high-cost footprints, could be …
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Industry Pulse
Flextronics emerging as leaner enterprise
Nam Tai Electronics restructures
October 8, 2007 – The integrated EMS provider's interest in NTEEP will drop about 6% to 67.71%. Interest in Zastron, currently at 100%, will also drop to …
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EMS provider Suntron going ‘private’
October 3, 2007 – Thayer-Blum has formed a new subsidiary to merge with and into Suntron to increase its ownership to 100%. Suntron will be the surviving entity of the merger and …
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LaBarge awarded BAE defense contract
Electronics manufacturing services provider LaBarge, Inc. was awarded a $5.7 million contract from BAE Systems to produce electronic assemblies for …
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Plexus factory in Malaysia gets FDA clearance
September 27, 2007 – Through its pre-market approval supplement evaluation process, the Neenah-based contract manufacturer of electronics products will produce …
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Japanese electronics industry’s changing landscape
The most recent restructuring plans announced by Japanese electronics companies are focused on extricating these companies from non-profitable divisions, and promoting additional growing through mergers and acquisitions. It seems Japanese…
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Taking the pulse of EMS
While internal, defensive, cost-control issues dominated the companies’ reports; most firms also …
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Jabil and Nokia-Siemens in possible deal with plants on the table
September 14, 2007 – There is discussion in industry the final outsourcing deal (if it occurs) may not include the sale of…
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Inventec rewards Arrow Electronics’ Ultra Source Technology Corp.
September 10, 2007 – Ultra Source Technology Corporation, a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc., announced it received the …
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Middle East GITEX hosts technology companies across globe
September 8, 2007 – Closer to the neighborhood, Egypt and Jordan both have a robust presence with 42 companies from Egypt, the country's biggest participation in 15 years, and 10 companies from …
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