Solectron Expands Romanian Facility

To provide advanced collaborative design and engineering services to its worldwide customers, electronics manufacturing and supply-chain management services provider Solectron Corp. reported today it has expanded its Timisoara, Romania-based facility to include a design and engineering services center.

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capabilities in the Timisoara facility, Solectron’s largest plant in Europe, will include electrical and mechanical design, advanced process technology, leading edge test development and failure analysis, the company said.

Creating a competitive design execution center in Europe is a core element of the company’s global design and engineering strategy, according to Mike Cannon, president and CEO of Solectron, who attended the opening of the new design and engineering services center.

“With the addition of the design and engineering services center, Solectron Timisoara is now a full-service manufacturing center in Europe,” said Dave Purvis, executive VP and CTO of Solectron, in a statement.

“We’re seeing a definite increase in customer demand for Solectron’s unique collaborative approach to product design and engineering. The Timisoara Design and Engineering Services Center is another example of how Solectron is helping OEMs to reduce costs, improve quality and increase time-to-market,” he continued.

“The proximity to our customer base, highly competitive cost structure and strong local pool of technical talent all point to Timisoara as an excellent choice and a formidable capability in our future design and engineering services portfolio,” added Purvis.

Solectron also said Timisoara offers high levels of technical talent -- both within the company as well as from Timisoara's Technical University, that the company has a positive relationship with. The university and Solectron said they will continue to develop specific projects and educational programs initiated in close partnership.

Finally, Solectron said the Timisoara facility offers lead-free manufacturing to meet RoHS requirements.