TAIPEI -- Foxconn
Electronics will produce more than one million notebook computers for Sony this year, the majority share on the Japan consumer electronics outsourced PCs.
Asian media source DigiTimes reported sources at Taiwan notebook makers as saying that the electronics manufacturing services provider will produce more than half of Sony's outsourced orders in 2006.
LONDON – The
UK Department of Trade and Industry yesterday issued a timetable for
implementing the WEEE Directive and “takeback” of electronics products by producers
and distributors.
In a so-called Consultation Document, the DTI proposed a national distributor
takeback program under which network of designated collection facilities would
be established.
SIDNEY, NY -- Flooding hit a Amphenol manufacturing site in upstate New York and the company says it will take $15 million to $30 million in expenses in its second quarter as a result.
According to various reports, several feet of water deluged the Sidney plant, a 600,000 sq. ft. facility which builds aerospace and industrial connectors. The plant employs about 1,500 workers and generates a reported $150 million to $200 million per year.
FT. WORTH, TX – Allied Electronics has broken ground on its new headquarters and distribution center in Fort Worth.
The catalog distributor, a subsidiary of Electrocomponents, began construction on a 365,000-sq. ft. facility that will replace the company’s existing rented space. The new facility will help accommodate the company’s growth, as it expects to create an additional 300 jobs over the next several years.
Construction is expected to be completed as early as summer 2007.
SANTA CLARA, CA -- Blade Network Technologies has begun shipping RoHS-compliant servers in advance of pending legislation in Europe and California, the company announced today.
The servers are built by Solectron Corp. in Charlotte, NC
SALT LAKE CITY -- CirTran Corp. said today that it has settled all major litigation in which it was a defendant, clearing the way for the filing of Form 10-KSB for fiscal 2005 with the SEC later this week.
The EMS company had been involved in a breach of contract filing dating to Sept. 11, 2003. The suit was settled for $200,000, on Feb. 24, according to court filings and company statements.