Manufacturing Industry

Not all high-tech companies go overseas.(INDUSTRY NEWSLINE)

Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation, August, 2005

A number of high-tech companies, including Intel and Dell, have made recent commitments to locate new manufacturing facilities in the U.S. rather than go overseas, according to a report in USA Today. Intel, for example, said last month it will build a new semiconductor plant in Chandler, AZ, near Phoenix. The $3 billion plant will employ about 1,000 workers when completed in 2007. The world's leading chipmaker will also spend $105 million to revamp a factory in New Mexico, creating another 300 jobs.

Other tech firms building in the U.S. include Dell, Inc,, which recently broke ground on a factory in Winston-Salem, NC; computer memory-maker Infineon Technologies, which expanded its Richmond, VA, plant last year; and IBM, which opened a large chipmaking facility...

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