Data General Dedicates New Facility in Chihuahua.CHIHUAHUA, Mexico--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1997--Data General Corporation today dedicated a new 55,000 square-foot product repair facility in Chihuahua, Mexico. The new facility replaces one which had been in operation since 1985. At a dedication ceremony held today at the facility, Data General Senior Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing and Product Development, William Cunningham For other persons named William Cunningham, see William Cunningham (disambiguation). William Cunningham (December 29, 1849 - 1919), English economist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. , said, "For over a decade, the Chihuahua operation has done an excellent job of servicing the full line of current and classic Data General computer products with industry leading cycle times and quality." The state-of-the-art Chihuahua facility is Data General's primary repair center for AViiON servers, CLARiiON storage products, and related terminals, communications products and subassemblies. In addition, the plant also has a growing third-party repair business. Plant Manager Ramon Real heads the facility, which employs more than 200 people. Mr. Real reports to Al Lanzetta, vice president of Manufacturing Services. Data General also has a strong marketing presence in Mexico serving a number of major customers, including petroleum conglomerate PEMEX Pemex officially Petróleos Mexicanos Mexico's state-owned oil company. In 1938 Pres. Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized 17 foreign oil companies to create Pemex, the largest Latin American petroleum company and a major world exporter of fossil fuel. ; FONACOT, a government financing agency; MERKAFON, a large telemarketing company; the University of Monterey; and the Monterey Institute of Technology. Fueled by the growth of the AViiON and CLARiiON lines, Data General's revenues and profits have been growing steadily since late 1995. Financial results for fiscal 1997, which ended September 27, are expected to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. next week . Data General's high-end manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. are located in Apex, North Carolina Apex is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite city of Raleigh. The population was 20,212 at the 2000 census and is at an estimated 31,453 in 2007[1]. The town motto is "The Peak of Good Living. . In May, the company announced plans for a major expansion of Apex, adding approximately 88,000 square feet and increasing manufacturing space by more than 40 percent. The expansion is expected to be completed in November. The added space helps to accommodate the company's new contract manufacturing operation, the VALiiANT Business Unit, and the volume growth for CLARiiON and high-end AV 20000 systems based on ccNUMA (cache coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (architecture) Non-Uniform Memory Access - (NUMA) A memory architecture, used in multiprocessors, where the access time depends on the memory location. A processor can access its own local memory faster than non-local memory (memory which is local to another processor or shared ) architecture. Data General is also expanding its integration and Special Systems manufacturing operations in Southboro, Massachusetts, and moving them to a refurbished facility in the spring of 1998. This move will also accommodate the expansion needs for CLARiiON business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets in Southboro.. Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ) specializes in providing servers, storage systems and related services and software to information technology users worldwide. The company, which is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts, reported revenues of $1.3 billion in fiscal 1996. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com . -0- AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks and VALiiANT is a trademark of Data General Corporation. CONTACT: Data General Corp. Brodeur Porter Novelli Jim Dunlap Gina Rezendes 508/898-6546 617/587-2839 jim_dunlap@dg.com grezendes@brodeur.com |
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