Woodstock Wire: EMS News

Media -- eBOM - Absolute EMS, Inc., a leading provider of turnkey and consignment manufacturing services, is pleased to announce that it has completed its 2021 recertification audit for the AS9100 Rev D SAE International Aerospace Standard. Absolute EMS manages,...

Business Wire -- An affiliate of H.I.G. Capital has completed the acquisition of SMTC Corporation, a global Electronics Manufacturing Services ("EMS") provider.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) founder Terry Gou will invest in EirGenix, a Taiwan-based contract development and manufacturing operator (CDMO) for biotechnological pharmaceuticals, to become its biggest shareholder.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) has reported consolidated revenues climbed 44.5% on year to NT$1.34 trillion (US$47 billion) in the first quarter of 2021, which came within the company's guidance range.

Media -- Evertiq - It was back in January 2021 that EMS provider SMTC Corporation announced that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement with an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm, which would transform the SMTC into a...

Media -- eBOM - Absolute EMS, Inc., a leading provider of turnkey and consignment manufacturing services, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its ISO 13485:2016 recertification audit. The company provides traceability, state-of-the-art quality,...

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Aspencore -- EPS News - The electronics sector helped drive U.S. manufacturing activity to a 37-year high in March as pent-up demand emptied customers' shelves and firmed up expectations for a widespread economic recovery. There are no signs demand will abate, according...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Foxconn does not expect to miss more than 10 per cent of its orders. But it is gradually witnessing the effects of the shortage Amid the global chip shortage crisis that has put hardware manufacturers all over the world on a setback....

Electronics -- SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTX) ("SMTC" or the "Company"), a global electronics manufacturing services provider and past winner of Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry,...

Media -- Evertiq - Foxtron, Foxconn's electric car company, has signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoU) with Nidec Corporation, under which the parties now join together as strategic cooperating partners looking to increase the momentum in the powertrain development...

Media -- Evertiq - A new 400'000 square feet facility, which is expected to be completed in the company's fiscal third quarter of 2022, will provide Plexus with two levels of production and warehouse space, as well as four levels of office space.

Media -- Evertiq - "Our second quarter performance was outstanding," says CEO Mark Mondello. "The combination of broad end-market strength, more favorable product mix, and excellent operational execution by the team allowed us to deliver USD 285 million in core...

Media -- Evertiq - Total North American EMS shipments in February 2021 were up 6.4% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, February shipments fell 1.7%, says the IPC.

U.S. News -- Shares of Taiwan's Foxconn rose as much as 3.6% on Monday after Vietnam conglomerate Vingroup said its car unit was in early...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Jabil is best known for making equipment and products for companies like Apple, Dell, HP and Cisco, but future growth will come from connected healthcare devices and electric vehicles.

Tech -- The Verge - The chairman of Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn says the electronics giant is considering making electric vehicles at its mostly empty worksite in Wisconsin, where the company originally planned to make LCD...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 108.76 for February 2021, decreasing 14.98% sequentially and but increasing 3.79% on year, according to Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

Media -- eBOM - Manufacturing output volumes in the three months to March improved to broadly flat, which marked their highest balance since May 2019. That's according to the CBI's latest monthly Industrial Trends Survey.



The survey of 321 manufacturers found...

Media -- Evertiq - US electronics manufacturer, Absolute EMS, has invested in a new large format JAGUAR N450 high-end lead and lead-free wave soldering system.

Electronics -- SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTX), a global electronics manufacturing services provider and winner of Frost & Sullivan's 2019 Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry, today announced its fourth...

Media -- Evertiq - When it comes to orchestrating all of the complexities associated with the manufacturing of a product, should innovators and businesses build a product themselves or outsource production? Lets look at the benefits in choosing an EMS to handle...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is planning to modify 20 of its existing plants to become lighthouse factories in 2021 and will use these new facilities to promote development of industrial IoT (IIoT) and smart manufacturing...

Media -- eBOM - What do you believe is the next step for UK manufactures to get back on their feet again after the pandemic?



In any recovery, companies need to start thinking like growth companies as they come off the back off a 'low volumes' year. The biggest...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Hon Hai Research Institute, an R&D organization established by Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), has formed E-Vehicle Cybersecurity Alliance in a bid to boost cybersecurity for new energy vehicles, mostly EVs.

Tech -- The Verge - iPhone-maker Foxconn has agreed to build electric vehicles for Fisker Inc., the eponymous EV startup of automotive designer Henrik Fisker. In a memorandum of understanding announced Wednesday, the two companies...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Both ICT ODM Pegatron and EMS provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) have stepped into the electric vehicles (EV) sector, but they have different strategies.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Notebook ODMs Inventec and Wistron saw their shipments grow substantially in February 2021 compared to a year earlier, but decrease sequentially.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Notebook brands and their ODM partners believe that demand for notebooks will remain stable in the first half of 2021 though at the moment they do not have a clear picture of the second half of the year due to low order visibility, according...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Microsoft will cooperate with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) to promote smart manufacturing using its cloud computing services, AI technology and global ecosystem resources, according to Microsoft Taiwan.

Media -- Evertiq - Swiss EMS provider, Cicor, has says that HEB Swiss Investment AG, Zurich, has sold all of its shares in Cicor Technologies Ltd. in a binding transaction to an investment vehicle of One Equity Partners (OEP).

Media -- Evertiq - Total North American EMS shipments in January 2021 were up 9.7% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, January shipments fell 6.4%, says the IPC.

Media -- ELE Times - Tata Group is in the process of building high-end electronics manufacturing capabilities to knit together its dream of creating an engineering and manufacturing ecosystem in the country. In that, there is a huge opportunity to build the electronics...

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Kitron is expanding its services with an existing major customer to cover the production of battery management systems.

U.S. News -- A new lawsuit alleges that worldwide electronics leader Foxconn Technology Group violated terms of its contract in Wisconsin, while local governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the project.

Aspencore -- EPS News - U.S. manufacturing activity remained robust at the start of the year although pandemic-related supply and worker constraints curtailed production and drove prices up. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index, the PMI, decreased...

Globe Newswire -- Key Tronic Corporation (Nasdaq: KTCC) received on February 17, 2021 a standard notice from Nasdaq indicating that, as a result of not having timely filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 26, 2020 (the "Form 10-Q"), the...

Media -- Evertiq - Swedish EMS provider, Inission, says it plans to invest EUR 6.8 million to acquire 49% of the shares in Enedo, a designer and producer of high-quality electronic power supplies and systems.

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Aspencore -- EPS News - IPC announced today the December 2020 findings from its North American Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.10.

Total North American EMS shipments in December 2020 were up 13.5 percent...

Globe Newswire -- Key Tronic Corporation (Nasdaq: KTCC), a provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), today announced the Company is unable to file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 26, 2020 (the "Form 10-Q") by the prescribed due...

Media -- Evertiq - Kitron's revenue for the fourth quarter was NOK 992 million (EUR 96 million), an increase of 12% compared to last year.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - The source said that the EV bus that would be rolled out in October would be a prototype The report added that Foxconn has ramped up its interest in EVs over the past year As per a report by Reuters, a joint venture Foxconn and...

Media -- Evertiq - NOTE has had an established development and manufacturing collaboration for several years with the Swedish fast-growing company Charge Amps, which develops and sells smart charging solutions for electric cars and other electric vehicles.

Media -- Evertiq - The German lighting specialist has reportedly sold a Bulgarian production unit to US-based EMS provider Sanmina.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn expects to improve its gross margin this year to 7% in 2021, and will continue to deepen its deployments in a spate of segments including electric vehicles (EV), robots and semiconductors in the next few years seeking to ramp up gross...

Media -- Evertiq - Kitron has received an order from Northrop Grumman for production of a sub-assembly for the F-35 fighter aircraft radar system developed by Northrop Grumman.

Media -- Robotics and Automation News - Traditional manufacturing execution systems are deployed on a single machine that might be networked to a handful of terminals inside of a machine shop. While this made sense in an era before widespread Internet adoption,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 131.52 for December 2020, the highest-ever monthly level with growths of 5.60% sequentially and 10.41% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider SMTC Corporation has entered into a definitive merger agreement with an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm.