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ESPOO, Finland, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Elcoteq SE (HEL: ELQAV), a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the communications technology industry, marks the ten year anniversaries of its Dongguan high-volume manufacturing plant and its Hong Kong management support office in China. Elcoteq was one of the first EMS companies to recognize Chinese customer demand for local manufacturing and support services, establishing Elcoteq Dongguan and Elcoteq Asia Ltd. in 1999. Elcoteq factories in China manufacture communications technology products such as wireless communications terminal products, home communications products, and network equipment.

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China represents one of the emerging markets for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and EMS providers of communications products and has a very significant customer base. In 2000, Elcoteq opened an office in Beijing and was the first global EMS company to start manufacturing operations in the Chinese capital.

Today, Elcoteq Dongguan, in the Nancheng District of Dongguan, China, is one of Elcoteq's three volume manufacturing plants in the Asia-Pacific region (the others are in Beijing and India). To support the Dongguan operation, Elcoteq Asia Ltd was set up as a customer center in Hong Kong and later developed with management support functions for all Elcoteq business area and group activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Additional Asian offices are in Seoul, Korea and Tokyo, Japan. Elcoteq China operations have about 4,000 employees working in facilities that cover about 58,200 square meters. The service portfolio has broadened from assembly manufacturing to complete box- build manufacturing, supply chain management, product development, and engineering and after-sales services.

Along with manufacturing services, Elcoteq's Dongguan plant supports original equipment manufacturers (OEM) with fully integrated solutions comprised of collaborative design, manufacturing, engineering services, sourcing, demand and supply chain management, and after-sales services, including product repair and recycling, for the entire lifecycle of the OEM's products. Manufacturing services include box build and sub-assembly manufacturing for communications products such as mobile phones, (GSM, PHS, CDMA), LCD driver modules, and base station modules. The plant is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certified and has Six Sigma, SA8000, and EHS implementation. The general manager of the plant is Cecilia Liu, Elcoteq's first female general manager in Asia.

"China represents one of the largest markets for handset OEMs," said Ms. Liu. "We were fortunate to be one of the first EMS companies to enter the China market and will continue to support our customers with Elcoteq's special know-how as a manufacturing services partner for wireless telecommunications products in China and other regions."

In 2008, Elcoteq Dongguan was honoured as one of the Top 100 Information Enterprises in Dongguan.

About Elcoteq

Elcoteq SE is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with design capabilities and focuses on three businesses within the communications technology industry; Personal Communications, Home Communications and Communications Networks. It provides unique service offerings that integrate consistent contract services globally with customized solutions: product development services, supply chain management, NPI, manufacturing, and after-market services for its customers' products, e.g. mobile phones and their parts, set-top boxes and flat screen TVs, base-stations, tower-top amplifiers, and microwave systems. Elcoteq operates in 15 countries on 4 continents and employs some 19,000 people. Consolidated net sales for 2008 totaled 3.4 billion euros. Elcoteq SE is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki. http://www.elcoteq.com , http://www.elcoteq-blog.com .

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