Flextronics to Build Wuzhong, Suzhou, China Facility to Support Manufacturing and R&D Capabilities for Computing Products

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Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:00am EDT

Flextronics to Build Wuzhong, Suzhou, China Facility to Support Manufacturing
and R&D Capabilities for Computing Products
Signing Ceremony Held to Recognize Flextronics, Wuzhong Government
Collaboration







SINGAPORE, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a signing ceremony held today
with Suzhou Wuzhong Economic Development Zone and Jiangsu Wuzhong Export
Processing Zone, Flextronics (Nasdaq: FLEX) announced that it will expand its
presence in China through the development of a new facility in Wuzhong. The
new facility will support the growing demand for computing products in China
and will include a design center and extended manufacturing capabilities in
the Wuzhong Export Processing Zone (WEPZ). The design center will be completed
by the end of 2009 and the manufacturing facility is expected to be completed
by the end of 2010.


In addition to the present manufacturing facility in Wujiang, Suzhou,
Flextronics currently also has computing design centers in Shanghai and
Wujiang (Suzhou). Wuzhong will be positioned as the company's main development
center in China for computing products.


"Today's signing ceremony is an important event that allows Flextronics and
Wuzhong government officials the opportunity to share the vision of this
design center and discuss its significance in supporting China's market growth
for notebooks and desktop products," said Sean Burke, president, Flextronics
Computing. "We are pleased to announce this expansion and believe that Wuzhong
is an excellent location based on its world-class infrastructure, supply chain
ecosystem and close proximity to Suzhou's Higher Education Center, which has a
reputation for excellent education programs and highly-skilled talent."


About Flextronics
Headquartered in Singapore (Singapore Reg. No. 199002645H), Flextronics is a
leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on
delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to
automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, infrastructure, medical and
mobile OEMs. Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service
electronics products through a network of facilities in 30 countries on four
continents. This global presence provides design and engineering solutions
that are combined with core electronics manufacturing and logistics services,
and vertically integrated with components technologies, to optimize customer
operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market. For more
information, please visit www.flextronics.com.




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Renee Brotherton, Corporate Communications, +1-408-576-7189,
renee.brotherton@flextronics.com, or Warren Ligan or Cindy KIimstra, Investor
Relations, +1-408-576-7722, investor_relations@flextronics.com, or Valerie
Kurniawan, Asia Communications, 65-97267681, valerie@sg.flextronics.com, all
of Flextronics
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