Shares of companies that do outsourced electronic manufacturing work crashed hard but have come off of the market bottom with gusto.
Some companies even operate clean-room technology for delicate electronic manufacturing.
Louis Miscioscia, senior vice president at Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ), upgraded the electronic manufacturing sector from "neutral" to "positive" on Aug. 1.
Last week, McWilliams published his latest State of Technology report on the electronic manufacturing services industry and singled out Flextronics as the stock he considers a "strategic investment" in the space.
In the past two months Solectron, the biggest of them also known as electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies announced that it would miss analysts' revenue targets for the current quarter and lay off 9, 000 employees, 11% of its work force.
We continue to perfect our core plastic electronic technology and manufacturing processes that are central to our product's unique value proposition.
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In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.
As such, the bulk, weigh, and cost for manufacturing the second electronic device may be reduced, resulting in a more portable and affordable product.
Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
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Taking this dis-integration a step further, many companies that sell electronic appliances are outsourcing large chunks of their manufacturing.
Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
The reduction reflects the suspension of operations at two plants: Shin-Etsu Chemnical has stopped manufacturing operations at its facility in Shirakawa, while MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) has shut its Utsunomiya facility.
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Now that everyone wants one, lots of brands are manufacturing them, and adoption levels are through the roof, to the detriment of other electronic formats.
Manufacturing industries reporting contraction in July included manufacturers of wood and paper products, computer and electronic products, textile mills, chemical products, transportation equipment and machinery.
Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
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