VISTA, CA, Dec. 21 - Fabrinet, a electromechanical manufacturing services company, will add an array of optoelectronic and packaging assembly equipment to beef up its volume assembly of optoelectronic components.

Fabrinet will add equipment for laser diode attachment and thermosonic ball and stitch wire bonding from Palomar Technologies, the companies said today.

The equipment will be installed in Fabrinet's manufacturing facilities in Bangkok.

"Fabrinet is one of a very few EMS companies capable of the precision manufacture in high volume of complex components such as those in the optics, optomechanical, and optoelectronic industries," said Bruce W. Hueners, Palomar vice president of marketing and business development, in a statement.