TORONTO -- Adeptron Technologies has reported its second large outsourcing deal in two weeks, this one to supply electronics manufacturing services worth more than $4 million per year to an undisclosed Canadian OEM.
Full turnkey product support and manufacturing services are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter, Adeptron said.
KAUNAS, LITHUANIA -- UAB Kitron, a subsidiary of Kitron ASA, has received new orders worth $13.4 million for a marine related product, with deliveries scheduled to take place in the first-half 2009.
"We are pleased to see that deliveries to these projects in 2009 are expected to be substantially greater than in 2008,” said Mindaugas Sestokas, managing director of UAB Kitron, in a press release.
Kitron, a large Norwegian EMS firm, currently has more than 350 employees at the site. Worldwide, the company has more than 1,300 employees and revenues over $250 million.
NAMPA, ID -- MPC Computers on Oct. 16 cut about 22% of its workforce from its Nampa and North Sioux City, SD, facilities, the company said.
About 39% (78 positions) of the reductions layoffs came in Nampa and 49% (98) in North Sioux City, with the rest related to field sales and other locations. In all, the company laid off 200 workers, bringing its workforce at the two sites to 693.