Asian EMS makers avoid tsunami fallout.Penang, Malaysia -- Early reports from Asia indicate that the electronics manufacturing services Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) is term used for companies that design, test, manufacture, distribute and provide return/repair services for electronic component and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). providers there emerged relatively unscathed from the tsunami that hit the coastline of the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. and killed tens of thousands of people. Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance said in late December there were no reports of problems among outsourcing operations in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. , Malaysia or Thailand. Solectron Corp. (solectron.com) spokesman Dmitry Lipkin told the news agency the company's facilities were unaffected by the earthquake and subsequent waves. Sanmina-SCI (sanmina-sci.com) reported that its operations in Thailand and Malaysia were not disrupted, Dow Jones said. Edited by Mike Buetow |
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