SINGAPORE -- Comparing India today to China of seven years ago, Sanmina-SCI Corp. will open its first plant in India within
the next 12 months, Reuters reported today. CT Chua, senior vice president of
South Asia Pacific Operations, said the EMS firm looks for 10% growth
in sales in the region, to about $700 million in its next fiscal year, Reuters reported.
VALLEY CITY, ND - Vansco Electronics, a maker of electronic controls for equipment manufacturers, will layoff 27 of the its 72 employees here, the company said.
The layoffs could
begin in January, a company official stated. The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based company
said most of its manufacturing at the Valley City plant will be
consolidated at other sites.
The plant was opened in 2001. In 2003, the company
was given about $635,000 in city and
state grants to keep it from leaving town, according to reports.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Dell this month will open a 750,000 sq.-ft. manufacturing facility -- the computer maker's largest -- in the Alliance Science &
Technology Park in Winston-Salem.
The new facility will employ about 700
people in its first year of operation and will have 1,500 employees
within five years, Dell said in a statement today.