Flextronics Medical to open Malaysian plant

Published: 2-Nov-2010

Will include a cleanroom and offer a range of medical manufacturing services


Flextronics, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider based in Singapore, is opening a 180,000ft2 facility in Senai, Johor, Malaysia to support a significant rise in demand from medical OEMs.

The firm’s Flextronics Medical division is building a new cleanroom manufacturing, ISO13485-compliant facility in Senai that will provide medical manufacturing services, including PCBA, plastic injection moulding and disposable device sub-assembly for medical devices and life sciences equipment.

The cleanroom facility will operate under Flextronics Medical's FlexQ quality management system.

This development follows Flextronics Medical's expansion in 2009, when it added 600,000ft2 of capacity in Shenzhen, China.

The company expects the Senai site to be fully operational by April 2011.

Flextronics’ net sales for the second quarter ended 1 October 2010 increased 27% to US$7.4bn. Adjusted operating income increased 43% to US$213m.

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