- Taking a global view
Wal-Mart , widely recognized as the retail industry’s low-price leader, gets roughly 85 percent of its goods from countries with labor rates far below those in the U.S. But does the pure pursuit of low-cost suppliers make for a sound global sourcing strategy? Some manufacturing industry experts say no. John ......
- The New China.
Fifteen-year-old SMT Limited is the top Hong Kong-based provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) in Southern China. It manufactures more than 20 percent of the world's demand for floppy disk drives from its factory in Dongguan, China, and is a preferred EMS partner of big names such as Sony and ......
- IPC, HKPCA postpone International Exhibition for PCB,
assembly industries.
IPC (Northbrook, IL, www.ipc.org) and Hong Kong Printed Circuit Association (HKPCA, Hong Kong, www.hkpca.org) have postponed the International Printed Circuit and Electronics Assembly Fair to Dec. 10-12, 2003, at the Guangzhou International Convention Center in Guangzhou, China. The inaugural event will serve both the printed circuit board (PCB) and electronics ......
- HKPCA/IPC host 6th annual event in
Shenzhen.
Jointly organized by the Hong Kong Printed Circuit Association (HKPCA), Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Guangzhou Sub-council (CCPIT-GZ), the 2007 International Printed Circuit and Electronics Assembly Fair (HKPCA & IPC Show) will be held December 5-7, 2007, at Shenzhen Convention ......
- Manufacturing in China -- With the promise of a large
domestic market and low-cost manufacturing, the production torch passes
to China.
While the electronics industry is experiencing a worldwide downturn, China holds promise as the bright spot for electronics manufacturing. With the anticipated entry of China into the World Trade Organization and the awarding of the 2008 Summer Olympics, many industry observers predict an unprecedented level of investment in China over ......
- Made in India
Is India the next stop in the electronics manufacturing supply chain? Not in the near term, industry watchers say. Although the words India and outsourcing have been linked for a while, they're largely used in conjunction with the terms software and services —not hardware and manufacturing. "India is not going ......
- AIM announces expansion in China.
AIM is pleased to announce the appointment of CPD HK (Hong Kong, China) and Sharemate Technology (Suzhou, China) as distributors for the complete line of AIM electronic assembly materials. CPD HK and Sharemate form another link in the global sales and technical support of AIM products and will support the ......