Woodstock Wire: EMS News

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reported better-than-expected performance for June, driven by brisk sales of its cloud computing, networking devices, PC products and structural components.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Google, which is having a majority of its Pixel 6 smartphone made in China, is considering shifting orders for its future phones to its manufacturing partners' plants in Vietnam to avoid the risks from the ongoing US-China trade tensions and...

Media -- Evertiq - All Circuits, a French EMS provider, has added a 6'000 sqm extension to its production site in Meung-sur-Loire, in southern France.

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Cicor Group says that it expects a sales growth of around 30% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 as a result of acquisitions made and the successful management of challenges in the current difficult business...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn (Hon Hai) has broken ground in southern Taiwan for a NT$6 billion (US$201.58 million) project to build a R&D and manufacturing facility for battery cells.

Media -- eBOM - Per IPC's May Global Sentiment of the Electronics Supply Chain Report, nine in ten electronics manufacturers surveyed are currently experiencing rising material costs, while nearly four-fifths are experiencing rising labor costs. Supporting data...

Media -- eBOM - The electronics manufacturing industry is welcoming a new, bipartisan proposal in the U.S. Congress that would help bring back the country's printed circuit board (PCB) sector.

The Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act of 2022, introduced...

Business Wire -- Kimball Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KE) today announced the company will be attending the Sidoti Summer Small Cap 2022 Virtual Conference. Donald D. Charron, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Jana Croom, Chief Financial Officer, will participate...

Media -- Evertiq - EMS provider Libra Industries says that it anticipates year-over-year growth of more than 30%. The company has seen strong growth across all facilities and verticals and has expanded in the semiconductor sector.

Media -- eBOM - Absolute EMS, Inc., a leading provider of turnkey and consignment manufacturing services, is pleased to announce that it utilizes the South-Tek Systems 350S Nitrogen Generator to manufacture its own nitrogen. While this is an added cost, the company...

Media -- Evertiq - 2022 has not even passed the halfway point and has already presented new - major - challenges for the electronics manufacturing supply chain. While the industry is doing all it can to alleviate current supply chain constraints - it still has...

Media -- EDACafe - SEMI, the global industry association that unites the entire electronics manufacturing and design ...

Business Wire -- Jabil (NYSE: JBL) today announced an innovative manufacturing collaboration with Cardo Systems, a pioneer in wireless group communications and entertainment systems for motorcycle riders. Cardo's path to market leadership has been fueled by Jabil's world-class...

Business Wire -- Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) today launched PK 5000, an eco-friendly, powder-based additive material engineered to deliver improved strength, chemical resistance and resilience in comparison to general-purpose nylon materials, such as PA 12. This patent-pending...

Media -- Evertiq - The past two years has delivered blow after blow to the electronics manufacturing industry. Disruptions stemming from the pandemic, logistical issues and lockdowns of complete cities. All out together we saw factories all over the world slowing...

Media -- DIGITIMES - EMS provider Foxconn Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$486.464 billion (US$16.50 billion) for April, decreasing 4.13% sequentially and 2.80% year-on-year.

Media -- Evertiq - Nine in ten electronics manufacturers are currently experiencing rising material costs, while nearly four-fifths are experiencing rising labor costs, according to data from IPC's May global sentiment of the electronics supply chain report.

Aspencore -- EDN - The use of printing technologies for industrial manufacturing processes in microfabrication has long been considered the holy grail for 3D printing. Companies have certainly tried, but existing technologies such as traditional inkjet printing have...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Strong Customer Demand for North American Production and New Program Wins

Business Wire -- Kimball Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KE) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended March 31, 2022. Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended March 31, March 31, (Amounts in Thousands, except EPS) 2022 2021 2022 2021 Net Sales...

PR Newswire -- Sanmina Corporation ("Sanmina" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SANM), a leading integrated manufacturing solutions company, today reported financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended April 2, 2022 and outlook for its fiscal third quarter...

Media -- Evertiq - The electronics manufacturer is reporting first-quarter results showing very strong demand and record order backlog, but also revenue constraints due to the component supply situation.

Aspencore -- EPS News - Manufacturing Market Insider, a newsletter specializing in the EMS (electronics manufacturing services) industry, has released its annual MMI Top 50 list of the world's largest EMS providers. In 2021, Top 50 sales accounted for $417 billion...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - With the fresh announcement, the company is now manufacturing all of its latest models in India, with two of its manufacturing partners, Foxconn and Wistron After months of anticipation, tech giant Apple has started the production of...

Business Wire -- Jabil (NYSE: JBL) today announced the formation of the Jabil Payment Solutions business unit to speed the development and delivery of leading-edge payment and point-of-sale (POS) platforms. Accelerated by the recent acquisition of YouTransactor SAS, a...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) saw its revenue rise 15% on year and 11.5% sequentially to NT$507 billion (US$17.67 billion) in March 2022, bucking seasonal trends.

Media -- Evertiq - Medical device company SaltMED has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Jabil, under which the EMS provider will become the company's manufacturer and supplier of current and future products.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - With the outsourced manufacturing becoming a norm in electronics product manufacturing, one of the key aspects that needs to be addressed is the choice of electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider. When an OEM looks for outsourcing...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), Foxtron Vehicle Technologies, and San-Ti Group recently held a ceremony in Kaohsiung for the delivery of Foxtron's first Model T electric bus (e-bus) to the Kaohsiung Bus Company, owned by San-Ti Group....

Media -- Evertiq - Total North American EMS shipments in February 2022 were down 9.7% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, February shipments fell 0.3%.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn will begin taking pre-orders for its Model C electric SUV on October 18 and enter volume production of the vehicle in the first half of 2023, according to company chairman Young Liu.

U.S. News -- TAIPEI (Reuters) - Major Apple Inc supplier Foxconn has "basically" resumed normal operations at its most important campuses in the Chinese city of...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Electronics manufacturers can maintain quality and increase time to market by using machine vision inspection methods in their factories. These systems, for example, can spot non-conforming components early in the manufacturing process. Designing...

Media -- Evertiq - 60 Jobs in 60 Days, that's what Jabil is looking to fill at its Albuquerque, New Mexico healthcare manufacturing facility.

Media -- Evertiq - US EMS provider Jabil has just reported preliminary, unaudited financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2022. The company recorded revenues of USD 7.6 billion during the quarter, an increase from USD USD 6.8 billion during 2Q21.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn (Hon Hai) Technology Group expects to register in 2022 the strongest first quarter in a decade, as some customer orders deferred from the fourth quarter are being fulfilled in the quarter, and is guardedly optimistic about its overall...

Media -- Evertiq - The UK subsidiary of Swedish EMS provider NOTE has recently invested in a new Zenith Alpha HS+ automated optical inspection system from Koh Young

Business Wire -- Kimball Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KE) today announced that Sandy A. Smith, Vice President, Information Technology (IT), will be retiring March 31, 2022. Ms. Smith, who has been in the role since 2014, will be succeeded by Isabel Wells, an accomplished...

Taipei Times --

U.S. News -- Foxconn Technology Group is in talks with Saudi Arabia about jointly building a $9 billion facility that could make microchips,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Apple's recently unveiled Mac Studio, powered by the in-house developed M1 Ultra processor, will primarily be produced by Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry), according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Foxconn on March 3 delivered an electric bus developed by its subsidiary Foxtron Vehicle Technologies to Kaohsiung, and it is planning to build an electric bus ecosystem in the city by furthering its cooperation with the local government.

Media -- Evertiq - The Swedish electronics manufacturer Orbit One has decided to stop its operations in Russia due to developments in Ukraine.

Media -- Evertiq - Electronics manufacturer Benchmark Electronics, has invested in new optical integration, photonics packaging, and photonics test capabilities at its RF and Photonics Center of Innovation in Phoenix.

Media -- Evertiq - Total North American EMS shipments in January 2022 were down 6.0% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, January shipments fell 14.9%, says the IPC.

Taipei Times --

Media -- DIGITIMES - Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) has announced the signing of an MOU with metaverse platform developer XRSpace, which will receive US$100 million in investment from the EMS giant.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Global supply chain recovery is an ongoing process. Electronics manufacturing services providers need a solid strategy for success in the current market. Michael Kennedy, vice president of global accounts at TTI, Inc., examines strategies...

Media -- Evertiq - Swedish EMS provider NOTE, says that its plant in China has so far not had a case of Covid-19. However, an employee at the plant has been in contact with a Covid-positive relative - which means that the plant has to be put into quarantine.

Aspencore -- EPS News - Shannon Flynn - When just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing originated in Japan in the 1970s, resource savings were among the most noticeable benefits. That's not surprising because having goods ready just in time for the customers who wanted them...