Decent start in 2008—what about the next 18 months?
by 2012. —In-Stat • purchased $4.5M in equipment includ- • ended its investment in ServiceSource.
• HDD vendors shipped 137 million units ing a Genesis Platform from Universal. • closing its Östersund, Sweden, plant;
globally, up 21% Y/Y. The bulk of the • opened a newly renovated 60,000 SF layoffs will begin in November.
drive applications were mobile comput- facility in Tijuana, Mexico. • losing its Lego contract. Lego will bring
ers, desktop PCs, consumer electronics, Celestica was named Kemet ‘2007 Best its manufacturing back in-house in
external drives and enterprise applica- Overall Total Cost of Ownership’ supplier. 2009.
tions. —iSuppli
Clevo borrowed US $48 million to expand Foxconn/Hon Hai:
notebook production in Kunshan, China. • building Mexico’s largest electronics
electronic manufacturing services
Continental inaugurated its $51 million
plant in San Jeronimo scheduled to
& related assembly activity R&D and electronics manufacturing facili-
have 20,000 employees.
Global EMS and ODM industry revenue ties near Bangalore, India.
• building a global shipping and assembly
is projected to grow from $305.5 billion in
Custom Systems Integration received a
hub in free trade zone of Kaohsiung,
2007 to $432.3 billion in 2012. —iSuppli
contract from the Naval Surface Warfare
Taiwan.
IPC began its box build training and certifi- Center to design, manufacture and test
• received EU approval to purchase
cation program. custom, complex PCBs.
Sanmina-SCI plants in Székesfehérvár,
ACI (US Navy’s center of excellence in Daleba Electronics expanded its technical
Hungary, and Guadalajara, Mexico.
electronics manufacturing) received a $100 and quality support teams in China.
• investing an additional US $243.4 mil-
million contract for a Benchmarking and
Deswell Industries appointed Betty Lam
lion into 11 China units.
Best Practices Center of Excellence.
CFO.
• building a NT$88.24 million digital
Advanced Electronic Services (AES)
Digitron is expanding its motherboard
content facility in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
received a 5-year, $1.7 million contract from
production in Manaus, Brazil, from 800,000
• investing an additional US $200 million
Letterkenny Army Depot for “rebuilding
to 950,000 units/ month.
in China to increase output of con-
mechanical devices” for the military installa-
nectors, PC chassis and pressing parts,
Elcoteq:
tion in Chambersburg, PA.
handset components and calculators.
• suspended merger talks with
APW Electronics entered receivership,
• shifting major production from Shen-
Arima Communications for joint
offering its 30% stake in APW President
zhen, China, region to other low-cost
production for LGE.
for sale.
regions such as Taiyuan and Langfang.
• appointed Cecilia Liu GM of its
AWS Group added 1500m
2
of manufactur-
• received manufacturing contracts from
Dongguan plant.
ing space to its Namestrovo, Slovakia, plant.
Sony and DELL for low-cost notebooks.
EMS Nova ETS received a US $26 million
• received handset orders from LGE.
BB Electronics named Morten Hansen test manufacturing contract for personal tracker
engineer and Bent Atzen project manager
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe
for Security Company in South Africa.
for its technology center.
transferred its PCBA operations to Fujitsu
Escatec opened a new facility in Penang/
Network Communications in the U.S.
BMK installed another high-speed SMD Malaysia.
line.
Fujitsu staff in Solihull, Ireland, went on
First International Computer closed its
strike because 140 PCBA jobs will be trans-
Benchmark Electronics authorized a $100 Czech Republic notebook manufactur-
ferred to the USA.
million share repurchase program. ing subsidiary and transferred its work to
HANZA acquired new machinery and
Brantham Group: Suzhou.
•
expanded cooperation with ABB Cewe-
finished first phase of its SMT facil- Flextronics:
Control.
ity upgrade; second phase is due for • seeking St. Petersburg, Russia, manufac-
completion in November.
IEC Electronics received a $3.7 million
turing location.
• formed a JV with ATM Electronics in •
contract from an unnamed military and
establishing a plant in Suzhou, China.
Sofia, Bulgaria. •
defense customer.
received a CEM contract for Oerlikon
Camden Electronics launched new operat- Solar products.
HMS opened its 5th production facility in
ing company in Shenzhen, China. • took over Carmanah Technologies’ solar
Poland.
Catalyst Manufacturing Services:
manufacturing activities.
ICP Electronics installed five SMT lines
20080802 20080813
Total Semiconductor Shipments to an Area
Taiwan/China Electronic Equipment Producers
Monthly Shipments - Reporting Firms
Composite of 101 Manufacturers
$B
14
NT$ (billions)
600
Japan
12 N America
SE
Europe
500
Asia
10
Asia Pac
400
8
300
6
200
4
100
2
0
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 3 5 7
1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 9 1 5 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
CALENDAR YEAR
Taiwan listed companies, often with significant manufacturing in China
SIA website: www.sia-online.org/
Chart 3. Chart 4.
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