Sanmina-SCI, the Largest Exporter in the State of Jalisco, Opens New Enclosures Facility in Guadalajara, Mexico
June 20 2006 - 6:10PM
PR Newswire (US)
Mexico President Vicente Fox Quesada Participates at Inauguration
Ceremony SAN JOSE, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Sanmina-SCI Corporation (NASDAQ:SANM), a leading global electronics
manufacturing services (EMS) company, today announced the grand
opening of a new 347,000 square-foot enclosures facility in
Guadalajara, Mexico. The completion of this facility expands
Sanmina-SCI's enclosure manufacturing capacity to more than 500,000
square feet, making it the largest enclosure manufacturing
operation in North America. Sanmina-SCI is currently the largest
exporter in the state of Jalisco. The President of Mexico, Vicente
Fox Quesada, was present today at Sanmina-SCI's inauguration
ceremony. President Fox was in attendance to honor Sanmina-SCI for
its dedication to equal opportunity employment programs in Mexico
and to recognize the significant impact Sanmina-SCI has had on the
local economy. "We are very excited to open this new
state-of-the-art enclosures facility in Guadalajara, Mexico,
further expanding Sanmina-SCI's Enclosure Systems Division's
world-class manufacturing infrastructure and capabilities," stated
Hossein Saadat, Executive Vice President, Enclosure Systems
Division for Sanmina-SCI. "The enclosure expansion allows us to
meet the growing needs of our customers who want to manufacture
their products in this strategic region. Customers benefit from
lower-cost manufacturing and shortened lead times, plus a
comprehensive range of enclosure product development, manufacturing
and distribution services with our new facility." "Our OEM
customers have embraced Guadalajara, Mexico, as a key manufacturing
location that provides a world-class engineering, manufacturing,
testing and logistics infrastructure that ensures stringent
time-to-market requirements are met," said Marco Gonzalez, Senior
Vice President, Mexico Operations for Sanmina-SCI. "With more than
2-million square feet of total capacity in Mexico, Sanmina-SCI has
emerged as both the largest exporter and largest EMS provider in
the state of Jalisco, combining a highly skilled technical
workforce with state-of-the-art operations. Today, Sanmina-SCI
Guadalajara builds more than 3,500 different products throughout
our entire campus, and our expanded 347,000 square-foot enclosures
facility is a testament to the growth in Mexico and the trend to
transfer products to this region." Sanmina-SCI expects to hire
another 600 associates by the end of 2006. The first phase of
development, consisting of approximately 347,000 square feet, is
now complete. Sanmina-SCI has more than 18 years of manufacturing
experience in Guadalajara, Mexico, offering a complete array of
services that include New Product Introduction (NPI), complete
system-level build-to-order (BTO) and configure-to-order (CTO)
manufacturing support, backplane and printed circuit board (PCB)
assembly, high-volume manufacturing, enclosures manufacturing and
assembly, logistics and distribution, and post-manufacturing
repair/warranty solutions. About Sanmina-SCI Sanmina-SCI
Corporation is a leading electronics contract manufacturer serving
the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics
Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology
leader, Sanmina-SCI provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions,
delivering unsurpassed quality and support to OEMs primarily in the
communications, defense and aerospace, industrial and medical
instrumentation, multimedia and consumer, computer and server, and
automotive technology sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities
strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More
information regarding the Company is available at
http://www.sanmina-sci.com/. Sanmina-SCI Safe Harbor Statement The
foregoing, including the discussion regarding the company's future
prospects, contains certain forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties associated with
economic conditions in the electronics industry, particularly in
the principal industry sectors served by the company, changes in
customer requirements and in the volume of sales to principal
customers, the ability of Sanmina-SCI to effectively assimilate
acquired businesses and achieve the anticipated benefits of its
acquisitions, and competition and technological change. The
company's actual results of operations may differ significantly
from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements as a
result of these and other factors, including factors set forth in
the company's fiscal year 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on
December 29, 2005 with the Securities Exchange Commission.
DATASOURCE: Sanmina-SCI Corporation CONTACT: Michael Kovacs,
Director, Corporate Marketing, +1-408-964-3142, or , or Paige
Bombino, Investor Relations, +1-408-964-3610, both of Sanmina-SCI
Corporation Web site: http://www.sanmina-sci.com/
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