SANM Sanmina Corporation

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanmina-SCI Corporation ("the Company")(NASDAQ:SANM), a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, announced today that Walt Hussey has joined the company as President of the Technology Components Group. In this capacity Walt will be responsible for the printed circuit board fabrication, backplane and cable assembly, precision machining and assembly and the enclosure systems businesses on a global basis. Walt joins the company with over 25 years of broad based manufacturing experience in both the OEM and EMS business environments. He most recently served as Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Distribution for Symbol Technologies, Inc., recently acquired by Motorola, Inc. "We are excited to have Walt join our management team. His extensive manufacturing experience will be a valuable asset in helping Sanmina-SCI's technology components group meet its strategic growth and profitability objectives. Walt will play a key role in the optimization of business processes, increased operating efficiencies and growth of the components business," stated Jure Sola, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Sanmina-SCI Corporation. Sanmina-SCI's technology components group is a critical element to its customer focus strategy and a key driver to the company's overall growth and profitability objectives. The technology components group provides high-end printed circuit board fabrication and backplanes -- up to 60 layers, enclosure systems -- metal fabrication and stamping, precision machining -- plastic injection molding, cables -- RF and optical and electromechanical systems integration. The technology components group is globally positioned to meet the requirements of its customers in the communications, enterprise computing and storage, defense and aerospace, multimedia, automotive, medical and industrial end-markets. About Sanmina-SCI Sanmina-SCI Corporation (NASDAQ:SANM) 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 superior quality and support to large OEMs primarily in the communications, defense and aerospace, industrial and medical instrumentation, computer technology, automotive and multimedia sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. Information about Sanmina-SCI 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 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on January 3, 2007 and the other reports, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, that the Company files with the Securities Exchange Commission. DATASOURCE: Sanmina-SCI Corporation CONTACT: Paige Bombino, Investor Relations of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, +1-408-964-3610, Web site: http://www.sanmina-sci.com/

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