EMS Firm SMT Opens 4th Plant
Published: 18 July 2007
by Mike Buetow
CHANGCHUN, CHINA – EMS firm Surface Mount Technology (Holdings) Ltd. will invest more than $13 million over the next two years in its newest facility, in Changchun. The 108,000 sq. ft. facility, SMT’s fourth, began operation June 28 and will operate under the name Surface Mount Technology (Changchun) Ltd.
The plant is a partnership with Changchun FAW Qiming Information Technology Co. Ltd.
It has three assembly lines and a laboratory, with room to expand to a capacity of 15 production lines and 20 assembly lines.
The site will build GPS systems and other electronics for FAW Group and other automakers.
Changchun is the capital of Jilin Province in northeast China.
In April the company broke ground on a 200,000 sq. ft. plant in Tainjin, which should be completed by the end of the first quarter 2008. SMT says the site will have a capacity of 20 SMT lines.
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