Asustek spun off its contract manufacturing business in 2010 into Pegatron under pressure from clients.
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"It looks good in an annual report, " quips Robert Freid, president of Contract Manufacturing Consultants.
It is exposed to the risks of contract manufacturing, an intensely competitive business with thin margins.
Angel announced recently that it needed a strategic partner in order to develop its contract manufacturing business.
In the case of contract manufacturing, look for this effect to be a positive one in coming days and weeks.
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Over the past four months, as Nasdaq tumbled below 2000 and spending on technology went down, the contract manufacturing sector appeared unstoppable.
Despite its wobbly start at selling branded drugs, Anexia gave King a taste for bigger gross margins: 75% for a brand drug, versus 20% or less for contract manufacturing.
Although this is certainly possible, it is very difficult to gain serious traction in the Chinese marketplace by pursuing a purely export strategy, or by contract manufacturing and selling through sales agents.
If you're wondering whether or not MIT's work will venture beyond the labs, don't -- the project was financed by contract manufacturing giant Foxconn, and it's already catching the eye of Microsoft Research.
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In addition, information tech projection Hitachi flat-screen TV has ever produced (President: Kenichi Yoshitake) is the production technology and techniques such as optical plastic substrate packaging technology developed in the manufacture of flat-screen televisions and other video equipment will continue to contract manufacturing products outside the Hitachi Group.
But Credit Suisse analyst John Pitzer took a closer look at this issue, and makes a case in a research note issued this morning that there are reasons to think it would be a smart move for Intel to move into contract manufacturing with Apple as a customer.
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But while Intel by has a long way to go before being able to duplicate the design infrastructure and broader foundry ecosystem that TSMC has fostered, a surge of recent Intel job postings for related disciplines suggests that Intel is spending aggressively to build up its contract manufacturing business.
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In 1993 they got into contract drug manufacturing by forming the subsidiary called King.
Through a partnership with MiTAC International, it also offers contract design and manufacturing services.
On January 26th, Sweden's Ericsson said it will contract out the manufacturing of nearly all its handsets to a Singapore-based firm, Flextronics, to help contain its costs.
So Asustek spun off its contract and original-design manufacturing business to quell concerns.
It was also reported Friday that the overall European Union manufacturing sector continued to contract in October for the 15th straight month, with a PMI reading of 45.4.
Also, activity in the eurozone's manufacturing and services sector continued to contract in May, closely-watched preliminary data from Markit, a financial information services company, showed.
Smith's customers are U.S. manufacturers doing small and medium-size production runs, either for their own end products or as contract suppliers to other U.S. manufacturing firms.
Recent surveys have indicated that the manufacturing and construction sectors continued to contract last month and, despite the upbeat service sector survey, analysts say it will be a close call as to whether the UK avoids recession.
The decision to build a manufacturing plant was taken after Hitachi Rail Europe won the contract with the Department for Transport (DfT) to replace the ageing fleet of diesel-powered Intercity trains.
Manufacturing added an unexpectedly strong number (25, 000), after seeming to contract in recent months.
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