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FabFile: 12 PCB shops closed during Q1. (Market Watch).


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 FabFile Systems, an industry observer. The total number of facilities dropped to 604 from 610 sequentially. Sales slid to $5.2 billion annualized annualized

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, from $5.7 billion. Total facility space fell by 400,000 [ft..sup.2] to 22.1 million [ft..sup.2].

Among the facilities closed were Buckbee Mears, Flexcim, Menlotech, Multek Irvine, Optek, Photo-tron, Sanmina-SCI (Ward Hill, MA, and Watsonville, CA), Value Printed Circuits, Viasystems Canada, Vision Circuit and Winonics. Six plants opened during the quarter.
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Title Annotation:printed circuit board
Author:Buetow, Mike
Publication:Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2003
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