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NEENAH, WI -- Plexus appears to be weathering the impending loss of longtime top customer Juniper Networks. The EMS company's fourth-quarter operating margin was 5.1%, its highest mark since March 2008, and management expects margins to continue to top 5% in the coming quarters.
EL SEGUNDO, CA -- After a decline in the second quarter of 2013 and a tepid expansion in the third, demand for touch-screen panels used in notebook PCs is set to rebound to double-digit growth during the last three months of the year. Shipments of touch panels for notebooks will amount to 4.9 million sheets in the fourth quarter, up 10% from 4.4 million in the third quarter, according to data from IHS. This follows a marginal 2% increase in the third quarter and a 5% drop in the second.
NAMPA, ID -- Plexus plans to spend $3 million to upgrade its manufacturing facility here. Improvements to the Boise Microelectronics Center of Excellence should be complete by the end of April.
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