New Factory Increases Capacity for the Company's Optical Product Manufacturing Operations
Bangkok, Thailand – Dec. 19, 2007 – Fabrinet, a provider of foundry services to optical component, module, and subsystem OEMs announced today that it has completed construction of a 300,000+ square foot addition to its Pinehurst optical manufacturing complex, near Bangkok, Thailand, and commenced operations at the new factory. Completed on time and on-budget, the factory brings Fabrinet's global manufacturing capacity to over one million square feet.
The new facility will be used to serve increasing demand for the company's complex engineering and manufacturing services for optical communications and other opto-mechanical and opto-electronic markets, including positioning sensors, automotive and medical devices.
The new factory's modular infrastructure will
accommodate numerous assembly lines, each of which may be customized
environmentally to support Class 100,000 to Class 100 Clean
Rooms as well as a variety of humidification and electro-static
discharge requirements for high precision opto-electronic manufacturing.
Additionally, the factory will accommodate Fabrinet's customer-specific “"factory
within a factory" operations, ensuring IP security and adherence
to each customer's desired manufacturing processes.
"We're pleased to have been able to respond
so quickly to increased capacity demands from our customers," said
Harpal Gill, executive vice president of operations for Fabrinet. "Our
new state-of-the-art factory is equipped and staffed to focus
on our unique offering of complex high-mix, low to medium volume
manufacturing."
About Fabrinet
Fabrinet provides foundry services to optical component, module, and subsystem OEMs. Fabrinet also designs, manufactures and sells bulk optical materials and components, including glass, crystals, prisms, lenses, laser components and substrates. Fabrinet has engineering resources and facilities in Thailand, China and the United States. For more information visit: www.fabrinet.com.
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