LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES – Electronics manufacturing services Integrated Micro-Electronics today announced the official opening of its factory in Chengdu, a large city in southwestern China.

The 97,500 sq. ft. factory is located in the Muwei Industrial Park in Xindu District. It is set up to build surface mount and through-hole circuit boards, and provide design services.

In a press release, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman of IMI's parent company, the Ayala Group, said, “IMI’s expansion to Chengdu is part of our strategy to bring IMI’s services closer to OEMs, which increasingly require greater capacity in China to supply a large domestic market as well as to manufacture for export markets. We believe China will remain at the center of the global electronics manufacturing industry and will be a significant driver of the world economy as it regains its growth momentum. Having this strategic position in the region will allow us to capture a greater share of volume orders as demand turns in step with the economic cycle.”

The Chengdu factory brings the number of IMI’s manufacturing sites in China to six. Others are located in Shenzhen (in Liantang, Kuichong, Fuyong), Jiaxing, and Chongqing.

IMI chose Chengdu at the behest of a major customer, president Arthur Tan said. “We were invited by one of our key customers to support their new plant in Chengdu. We also have OEM customers based in Chengdu that are currently serviced by our plant in Chongqing, which is also located in southwestern China. With our new plant in Chengdu, we can offer to bring our expertise nearer to them.”

Tan added that IMI also considered the steadily rising costs of manufacturing and labor supply shortages in the coastal regions in its further expansion into southwestern China. “Southwestern China’s manufacturing costs are more competitivecompared to those in the coastal cities. It also has the largest pool of migrant workers. Because of this, the move into the central regions by OEMs and their EMS partners has gained momentum.”

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