First surface amount LED plant in NOrth America

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 393 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(00)90585-4

✦ Synopsis

First surface mount LED plant in North America

North America's frost full-inside SLI's existing minia-blies by 15%). Output will profitable segment of line surface mount LED ture lighting assembly go mainly into systems their lighting business. manufacturing plant is plant in Barrie, Ontario, manufactured under the The plant will complescheduled to begin pro-Canada (with die attach brand name Chicago ment the existing LED duction in Q4/2000. The and wire bonding in a Miniature Lamps (part of lighting plant, OSA in US$20m facility is being class 10,000 cleanroom). SLI Lighting Systems). Berlin, Germany (acbuilt by SLI OPT0 -a The plant will initially According to SLI quired in 1997), which 70:30 joint venture produce 120m units per Chairman and CEO Frank produces 72m LEDs/year. formed in June between year, then ramp up to M Ward, the plant will "We will also save US$Gm SLI Inc (Canton, MA, USA) GOOm/year by Q4/2003 help SLI gain greater man-a year in procurements and Stanley Electric Co (increasing SLI's capacity ufacturing control over and manufacturing Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) -for LED lighting assem-the fastest-growing, most costs",Ward said.