TORONTO -- SMTC Corp. will build assemblies for Leitch Technology in a deal worth an estimated annualized run rate of $20 million.

SMTC will provide electronics manufacturing services for Leitch, a maker of high-end video systems.

Under the terms of the agreement, SMTC will initially provide complete manufacturing services to Leitch at its new product introduction center in Markham, Ontario, and its facility in Chihuahua, Mexico.

In a statement, SMTC senior vice president of business development Steve Hoffrogge said the "transition ... is well underway, with full roll out of the initial phases expected in the third and fourth quarters of the year."

RICHARDSON, TX – Michael C. Shores, president and chief executive of TXP-Texas Prototypes Inc, was named a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year 2005.

 

The E&Y program recognizes significant business achievements around the world made possible by the entrepreneurial spirit.

 

incorporated in 2002 after spinning off from a major EMS company. 

 

Shores, who writes a column on optoelectronics assembly for Circuits Assembly, is a finalist in the Realizing Business Potential category for the Southwest. 

 

Shores was selected by an independent panel of judges comprised of local business, academic and community leaders. 

 

TXP provides prototyping electronics manufacturing services. It was

 

“The acceptance of our business model has been overwhelming,” said Shores in a statement. “I am proud to be at the head of one of the pre-manufacturing services industry’s fastest growing companies, and very excited about what the future potentially holds."

 

 

 

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ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Jabil Circuit reported third-quarter profit climbed 48% on a 19% hike in sales. The top tier provider of electronics manufacturing services said May quarter earnings rose to $59.4 million, from $40.1 million a year ago.

Revenue rose 19% to $1.94 billion from $1.63 billion last year.

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RENO, NV -- Electronic Evolution Technologies, a manufacturer of assemblies for the medical, RF/wireless, gaming, industrial and digital AV markets, will assume a 17,000 sq. ft. plant in  Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. 

The plant is located in the Bellavista Industrial Park and is run by the Offshore Group, a Tucson, AZ, provider of outsourced manufacturing services to companies in the aerospace, medical device, automotive, electronics and optics industries in Mexico.  

EET will eventually employ between 50 to 100 direct labor workers, the company said.

In a statement EET president Sonny Newman said, "Our decision to establish an operation in Mexico was predicated on a desire to offer our customers a low-cost labor solution."

The Offshore Group runs industrial parks in Coahuila and Sonora and claims more than 35 manufacturers under contract that employ an aggregate 13,500 direct labor employees.

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