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Concord's Manufacturers' Services limited (MSL) last week upgraded a four-year relationship with Kronos Inc. of Chelmsford.
MSL, the region's largest contract electronics manufacturer; has had a relationship with Kronos for years: MSL designs the printed circuit board assemblies for Kronos, and Kronos handles the manufacturing of the assemblies, MSL will not actually begin manufacturing Kronos' PCB assemblies until October. Outsourced design alone is not MSL's typical business, according to Bert Notini, MSL's vice president and chief financial officer.
"MSL has been built substantially on the manufacturing and contract fulfillment side," Notini said. "We're a billion-dollar company, and pure design accounts for maybe $25 million of...