The company later added the electronics manufacturing business of Varian Inc. to its arsenal.
Over 40% of all electronics manufacturing in Singapore is directly of indirectly related to disk drives.
"The existing global supply of electronics manufacturing is firmly entrenched, " the statement said.
The unique plastic displays are produced in Plastic Logic's world-first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
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The second and even more surprising growth sector is computer and electronics manufacturing.
These days electronics manufacturing service firms make almost 20% of all hardware products, nearly double their share four years ago.
Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in electronics manufacturing in the 1960s, is widely regarded as the first major Silicon Valley success story.
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It will mean a small number of jobs and economic output, and a test case for American electronics manufacturing from the most-talked about company in tech.
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Sullivan notes that offshoring moves by his company and others have dramatically increased the electronics manufacturing base in Asia and that will influence where measurement tools are sold.
Having said that, there are some electronics manufacturing companies, the components makers, which are not cheap but have relatively reasonable valuations even in this phase of the rally.
Admittedly, there are deviations from the procedures of electronics manufacturing, such as the need to release the tiny gears, flaps and springs so that they can move freely.
Consumer electronics manufacturing provides an excellent illustration of the conundrum.
Our first virtual town hall of the hour is in Kokomo, Indiana, population 45, 000, four Chrysler plants, Delphi electronics, manufacturing on a big scale, but in a sector, cars, that's shrinking.
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As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China -- particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer -- takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek's profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria.
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Salomon technology analyst Chang Chiew Yee likes exporters NatSteel Electronics and Venture Manufacturing.
Many of these smaller cities are becoming hubs for fast growing industries such as electronics, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and machinery.
It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
The influx of foreign competition in China, particularly in manufacturing and electronics, has provided the locals with tough, world-class training.
Sweden for telecommunications, the United Kingdom for financial services, Germany for manufacturing, electronics and automotive, and the Netherlands for logistics.
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The company started out manufacturing consumer electronics and pioneered the development of color television in the 1950s, but over time gravitated towards military work as Japan began making inroads into the U.S. consumer market.
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Its holdings include hotels, manufacturing and electronics subsidiaries.
Well, we know that some 230, 000 Foxconn employees make Apple products, the rest of the 1 million manufacturing for other electronics companies.
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He discovered it was sending stolen data to an Internet user in Tianjin, China's third-largest city and the second-biggest hub for manufacturing, particularly electronics.
Hillcrest also offers fully designed reference remote controls for those companies that have limited in-house design services, leveraging Hillcrest's expertise in industrial design, MEMS electronics, and mass scale manufacturing.
Unlike Europe and America, where most electronics firms have split the design and manufacturing sides of their businesses and narrowed their focus, Japan still trudges on with five vertically integrated electronics giants.
From aerospace to electronics, it will increase American manufacturing exports, including those produced by our small businesses.
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And, the creation of that plastic solar cell could change the requirements for the manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
From aerospace to electronics, it will increase our manufacturing exports to Korea, which already support some 200, 000 American jobs and many small businesses.
Plastic electronics technology has many economic, manufacturing, form factor and environmental benefits, assuring that it will replace silicon in a variety of devices in the future.
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