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News Release from: Kulicke and Soffa Industries
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 September 2005
Chinese plant expands into blades and
sockets
Kulicke and Soffa Industries has expanded its facility in Suzhou, China to become fully operational in its manufacturing capabilities to produce both dicing hub blades and test sockets.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries has expanded its facility in Suzhou, China to become fully operational in its manufacturing capabilities to produce both dicing hub blades and test sockets In addition to its existing capillary and cantilever probe card product lines, the K and S Suzhou plant now produces blades and sockets to offer a fuller range of manufacturing capability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The facility has dedicated over 1860m2 in its existing plant to both of these new product lines.
Additionally, K and S has invested nearly US $8 million in new equipment and technology to make both of these new China manufacturing lines state-of-the-art in unit output and quality.
Oded Lendner, K and S Senior Vice president, Package Test Business Unit, states: "As our test socket business in Asia continues to grow faster each year, we need to be closer to our main customer base".
"With our total investment in the new test socket manufacturing line in Suzhou, we can exceed the growing local demand in China and the Pacific Rim".
This new "full-line" manufacturing capability will now be the largest K and S facility of all it test socket manufacturing sites.
Jack Belani, Senior Vice President, K and S Corporate Marketing and Ball Bonding, explains: "To further expand our blade market share and overall customer satisfaction, we decided to move our blade manufacturing hub to China".
"Our new manufacturing plant offers increased capacity and faster cycle times to meet our growing customer base".
The K and S Suzhou facility will now have over 1000 employees, with room to grow.
Additionally, K and S China plans to strengthen and grow its technical application capabilities and engineering expertise to further support the local Chinese semiconductor market growth.
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