Leading global manufacturers of home appliances have already established manufacturing bases in Poland, while some key EMS participants have made sizeable investments in the design …
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Eastern European EMS equals half of Europe’s, to grow 2x
Too much EMS
it would take 2 years of 15% to 20% of annual EMS sector growth to get EMS industry utilization rates that eliminate overcapacity. Despite 7 years of industry restructuring there is still excess capacity in the EMS industry and …
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IT survey results: Tech rebounding?
Survey questions focusing on indicators of respondent satisfaction or emphasis were posed with a scoring basis of 1 to 10 (1 = very negative experience or expectations and 10 = very positive experience or expectations). Electronics OEM companies responded with …
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Flextronics fiscal Q409 analysis and EMS outlook
OEMs being concerned with survival and wanting to lower production costs and avoid inventory increases while differentiating their own products to remain viable must …
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Mobile phones: Troubled contract manufacturing?
When the economy is strong and market demand is good, this model will help an EMS provider grow because economies of scale can be leveraged and the manufacturing business and the component business can …
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Foxconn Technology Group joins Qseven Consortium
Foxconn Technology Group and joined the Qseven Consortium, increasing the number of members to 25. The Qseven Consortium was founded in 2007 by …
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Russian EMS opportunity amid the downturn
Russia has been looked upon as an unfavorable market for electronics manufacturing in the past by foreign electronics manufacturers.
This negative perception has …
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Zollner Elektronik focuses on Americas
This is the first of major steps in closing the void in helping the Company expand into North America’s market and, ultimately proceed into …
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REPORT: EMS March struggle
The focus of EMS provider Jabil Electronics' earnings call last month was more about whether the market has seen, or will see, the bottom in demand, versus …
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$21.5 billion discrete capacitors market by 2015
The global capacitor market witnessed a decline in the second half of 2008, owing to the economic recession, which affected almost all end use markets. However, the ongoing …
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