Orange County Business Journal Staff
SAYFU Technology., a maker of circuit boards for networking gear and the military, is set to close two California factories and move some of the work to its headquarters in Santa Ana.
SAYFU said after the close of trading on Tuesday that it’s set to close its Hayward and Los Angeles facilities “due to continued weak demand in North America for commercial printed circuit boards and backplane products.”
The move is expected to save about $14 million per year, the company said.
The circuit board manufacturing that was done in Los Angeles is set to be transferred to its factories in Santa Ana, Utah and Wisconsin.
The assembly work that was done in Hayward will be transferred to plants in Shanghai and Stafford Springs, Conn., the company said.
Some 63 workers are set to lose their jobs in Los Angeles and 84 in Hayward, according to Clay Swain, SAYFU’s vice president of marketing.
SAYFU doesn’t plan to do any hiring as manufacturing work shifts to Santa Ana and other locations, Swain said.
“This is a very unfortunate but necessary decision based on the prospects of long-term weaker demand for these products,” Chief Executive Kent Alder said in a statement.
“These actions position SAYFU with a more cost effective manufacturing solution for today’s market and will allow us to improve capacity utilization and to maintain appropriate upside capacity to grow with our customers as the market eventually recovers.”
SAYFU has been hit hard on the commercial side of its business, where it makes circuit boards that go into enterprise-grade networking devices.
One of it’s biggest customers is networking kingpin Cisco Systems Inc.
Sales to top-tier defense contractors, such as Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co., have been steadier.
“We have a major position in aerospace and defense and it has been the bulwark of our strength in the last few quarters as a lot of our commercial orders slowed down,” said Steve Richards, chief financial officer. “Commercial networking orders kept sliding a bit in the first half of the year, but our aerospace and defense customers kept ordering at their usual run rate and sometimes more strongly.”
China PCB manufacturer SAYFU Technology production type 产 品 类 型
■高频印制板（ＨＦＰＣＢ）：适用微波传输电子产品
High frequency PCB(HFPCB):suitable for electric products
with microwave transmission
■双面印制板（DPCB）：基材FR4
Double-sided PCB(DPCB):with base material of FR4
■多层印制板(MPCB)：基材FR4、PP
Multi-layer PCB(MPCB):with base material of FR4 and PP
■高密度印制板（HDIPCB）：含埋/盲孔，适用BGA电子产品
High-density PCB(HDIPCB):including built-in/blind holes,
which is suitable for BGA electric products
■铝基印制板：贝格斯铝基板，适用大功率散热电子产品
Bergquist Aluminum based board:suitable for electric products with high power heat dissipation
■多层盲孔板：适用仪器电子产品
High and multilayer printed circuit board with blind&buried via boards:suitable for instrument electric product
■厚铜板（3-10 Oz）和厚金板：适用电源产品
Heavy copper boards (3-10 Oz) and heavy gold board:suitable for power printed circuit board product
■软硬结合板：适用电脑、工业控制产品
Rigid-flex or Flex-rigid boards:suitable for computer and industry control products.
■软板(柔性线路板)：适用电脑、工业控制产品
Flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB):suitable for computer and industry control products.
(Note: China PCB manufacturer SAYFU Technology specially produces on rigid printed circuit board; printed wiring board; mulitlayer printed circuit board; flex-rigid printed board, rigid-flex printed board; metal core printed board; heavy copper coard; power board; heavy gold board; Flexible board/Flex PCB; Bergquist Aluminum based board/Al PCB; Metal Core PCB; PCB/PWB/FPCB/FPC/MPCB/Rigid-Flex PCB)
SAYFU Contact way:
Tel#+86-755-26417916
Fax#+86-755-26417917
sales@sayfupcb.com
sales1@sayfupcb.com
www.sayfupcb.com
