EMSNOW Executive Interview: Ed Smith, President and CEO, SMTC Corporation
SMTC is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) with facilities in United States, Mexico, China and Canada. The company has been in the news recently when they announced they were pulling out of China in response to the tariff war. EMSNOW caught up with SMTC’s CEO, Ed Smith for more insights.
Six O-S-D Product Categories Will Hit Record Sales in 2019
Despite a slowdown, combined revenues for optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors are expected to barely set a 10th consecutive record high in 2019, followed by gradual strengthening in 2020 and 2021, says new updated forecast. With the global economy slowing and the fallout from the U.S.-China trade war causing systems makers to draw down factory […]
Manufacturing Businesses Most Likely to Prefer Older Workers, Says New UK Survey
Almost three quarters of business owners in the manufacturing sector would choose to recruit an older worker than a younger candidate with exactly the same skills and experience, according to new research. In a national survey, more than a third (36%) of 1,000 SME business owners across a range of sectors including finance, healthcare, IT, […]