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Time-to-Market and Time-to-Volume: critical success factors for product launches
As product innovation is absolutely fundamental to the market, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) struggle to keep pace with consumers whose demands for new phones and product replacement are growing at a high rate. Manufacturing is regarded less and less as a source of competitive advantage for OEMs. Product innovation, brand image and product sales are […]
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Towards Low Carbon Economy: Actions in Elcoteq´s plants in Asia
The slogan of the 2008 World Environmental Day is “Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy”. This concerns everyone especially those working in the electronics industry.
Like Elcoteq’s plants in other regions, our plants in Asia are expressing great support by taking actions to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Elcoteq Beijing has launched the […]
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EMS company’s perspective on growing versatile Mobile Phones
Entertainment and utility services for mobile phones are growing from strength to strength, and in practice all Internet services can now be used with a mobile phone. For instance the mobile phone user can trade in securities, watch television, play games, send instant messages and follow the commentary of football matches in real time. The […]
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The First Female General Manager of Elcoteq in China
At a time when men still dominate as leaders in the manufacturing field, Elcoteq’s Cecilia Liu is breaking ground as general manager of Elcoteq’s Dongguan, China plant. In her role as general manager, Liu is responsible for ensuring that all operations run smoothly and that there is optimal utilization of resources to satisfy the needs […]
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Elcoteq Commemorated the World Environment Day
The World Environment Day was commemorated in Elcoteq locations globally on June 5, 2008. Since climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era, the slogan this year was Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Also Elcoteq SE’s Corporate Responsibility Report was published on the same day in digital format.
Lots of activities […]
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SMT/Hybrid/Packaging 2008 Nürnberg
Elcoteq Participated in a Panel Discussion Organized by productronic
By Päivi Huuhtanen
The panel discussion held at the SMT/Hybrid/Packaging Show in Nürnberg in June was hosted by Hilmar Beine, the Editor-in-chief of Productronics, and it led to a fruitful discussion about EMS markets.
The panelists were Dr. Werner Witte, Managing Director, BuS Elektronik, Ronny Kirschner, Managing Director and […]
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EMS in Asia
The trend for EMS companies to concentrate their volume manufacturing in low-cost countries is still going strong. China is firmly established as the leading country for manufacturing thanks to its massive home market, low prices, and developed infrastructure. About half of the slightly over one billion mobile phones produced worldwide in 2007 were made in […]
REACH Unifies Chemicals Legislation
The European Union’s chemicals legislation was reformed at the beginning of June 2007 when the new REACH Regulation came into force. REACH is intended to improve the protection of human health and the environment and develop chemicals legislation in the European Union.
REACH is short for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals. The primary objective […]
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Manufacturing in Eastern Europe
According to a recent report by Frost & Sullivan, the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market in Eastern Europe will grow from about $9 billion in 2006 to nearly $24 billion in 2013*. This is not a surprise. Eastern Europe has a culture and infrastructure conducive to volume manufacturing and EMS companies have been established there […]
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Partnering with Wipro for Design Services in India
India offers many opportunities in the area of design and is still one of the most cost-competitive destinations for design and manufacturing. It has been shown that total cost of ownership can be reduced and the manufacturing process optimized if the design of a product takes place in conjunction with the team involved in its […]
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