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While contract assembly operations are popping up all over China, the most heralded ones belong to North American or Taiwanese ODM and EMS companies. Still, China has a lengthy list of domestic firms, and some of these are beginning to return the favor. One such company, Beijing Brio Technology (brio-tech.com), recently opened a sales and service office in Vancouver, Canada, an ambitious move for a micro-cap EMS firm whose 2004 revenues were $32 million (20% turnkey, 80% consignment). To date, Brio has plants in Beijing (where it operates 10 fully automated SMT lines) and Shanghai, plus a subsidiary in Shandong. But serving the company's blue-chip roster of customers - including Pioneer, JVC, GE and Philips - demanded a North American presence, as president Yang Tongxing explained in an interview with CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY editor-in-chief Mike Buetow in late June.
CA: Brio recently decided to put an office in North America. Do you have plans to add manufacturing operations and if so, when?
YT: Brio has always strived to offer our customers value-added services. We treat customers' needs as our own needs. As such, Brio might consider turning the current division [Ed: Vancouver] into a manufacturing operation, contingent upon...