Solectron

American electronics manufacturing company

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Solectron Corporation

Headquarters in Milpitas, California

Company type| Public company

Traded as

| NYSE: SLR
Industry| Electronics Manufacturing Services, product design and after sales services
Founded| 1977
Defunct| 2007
Fate| liquidated by Flextronics[1]
Successor| Flex Ltd.
Products| Consumer Electronics, Routers, Switches, TVs
Revenue| US$10.56 billion (2006)[2]

Solectron Corporation was an American electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. The name "Solectron" was a portmanteau of the words "solar" and "electronics".[3]

Solectron had sales of around $12 billion a year, and employed 70,000 people in 23 countries.[4] The company was acquired by Flex on October 15, 2007.[1]

## History

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Solectron was established in 1977 to provide outsourced manufacturing services to third parties. It was a major manufacturer, but you would have not found its name on any products. Solectron founders Roy Kusumoto and Prabhat Jain saw a growing number of electronics companies in California's Silicon Valley. There was a need to provide printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) services, handling the manufacturing overflow from OEMs. Solectron aimed to provide high-tech companies the ability for their products to be produced and delivered more quickly and efficiently than their competition, and believed that their customers needed a greater level of service for assembly and manufacture of printed circuit boards, cellular phones, along the entire product supply chain.[5]

In 2007, Flextronics announced they would buy Solectron for 3.6 billion dollars.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Flextronics Buys Solectron for $3.6 Billion". CNBC. Reuters. 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
2. ^ SLR – Solitario Resources Corporation – Google Finance
3. ^ Industrial Automation
4. ^ "Solectron - The invisible multinational". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
5. ^ "Home". transparentc.com.

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